Social media now an important tool for militants: Jaishankar at UNSC meet

37Highlighting the growing misuse of technology by militant groups, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said that social media platforms and the internet are now often used for radicalisation and spreading propaganda to destabilise societies.

Speaking at the special meeting of the UNSC’s Counter-Terrorism Committee in New Delhi, Jaishankar said that militants often use “tech, money and the ethos of open societies to attack freedom, tolerance and progress”.

“Internet and social media platforms have turned into potent instruments in the toolkit of militant groups,” he said.