service had warned that in the absence of adequate checks it will treat the messaging platform as abettor of rumour propagation and legal consequences will follow rumours on whatsapp have sparked off a spate of incidents involving mob violence the incidents have raised eyebrows and the supreme court last month asked parliament to consider enacting a new law to effectively deal with incidents of mob lynching saying horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be allowed to become a new norm law and it minister ravi shankar prasad has also informed the rajya sabha that he will hold a discussion with stakeholders including political parties to evolve a policy to deal with the misuse of social media over the last few weeks whatsapp has introduced a new feature to let its users identify the forwarded messages restricted number of forwards at a time and brought out fullpage ads giving easy tips to spot fake news but the it ministry has directed whatsapp to bring more effective solutions to the table to ensure greater accountability and facilitate enforcement of the law beyond the existing efforts towards labelling forwards and identifying fake news sr mbi mr mr