Haryana Police takes down over 6,000 links and apps in campaign against objectional online content

Director General of Police, Haryana, Ajay Singhal, issued a warning on Saturday to those promoting gun culture and objectionable or misleading content on social media, stating that such content would not be tolerated and that strict action would be taken against the offenders.

A total of 6,083 objectionable, misleading, and law-and-order-disturbing URLs, content, apps, and websites have been taken down this year so far. Of these, 4,278 were linked to Meta (Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp); 1,172 to YouTube; 372 to X (formerly Twitter); 167 to other platforms; 53 to Telegram; 36 to Reddit; and 5 to Snapchat.