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The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has asked the Centre to ban Chinese-funded news aggregator applications contending that they have no accountability and make no effort to curb the proliferation of “fake news†on their platforms. In letters to Home Minister Amit Shah, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar and Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, the INS also said that news aggregator apps such as Dailyhunt and InShorts have nearly 80% foreign ownership and do not adhere to the FDI norms for digital news media ownership. “Additionally, they accumulate Indian consumer data and attempt to monetise it and potentially...
