In the wake of unsubstantiated reports doing round in the Internet over various issues, actor Murali Gopy has taken to Facebook to lash out against such media.
He posted: “Of the four Estates of our Democracy, the one that is in urgent need of a thorough ethical overhaul... is the Fourth one. There is an industry now, thriving solely on selling FAKE News, online.
It is silently killing lives, disturbing social equilibrium and destroying reputations in ways unimaginable.
There is absolutely no solid law or authority in place, to prevent either the proliferation of these sites or to bring them to book, for the terrible canards that they are spreading in the name of journalism.
Almost all virtual platforms such as FB, Twitter and Youtube, are being demonically invaded and prevailed upon, to promote and propagate this toxic garbage. These are times, when even the most pragmatic of people would wish for a Vigilante” (sic).