ShareChat takes the shovel to 54,000 accounts, half-a-million content items

BENGALURU: ShareChat, a homegrown social media platform, has taken down nearly half a million pieces of content and removed 54,400 accounts since February for spreading fake news, hate speech, spam and misinformation.

ShareChat, a regional social network, is one of the five internet companies that agreed to the Election Commission (EC) of India’s voluntary code to control ‘problematic content’ and bring ‘transparency in political advertising’. Facebook, Google, Twitter, and ByteDance are others that agreed to abide by the code.