Northeast Exodus: India Seeks U.S. Help to Track Offensive Content

The majority of the online content started getting posted from July 13 and fake profiles were created for spreading morphed pictures, according to a Home Ministry report prepared in the wake of mass exodus of people from north east from Bangalore, Pune, Chennai and Mumbai following rumors about possible attack on them.

The Indian government is planning to take the help of the U.S. in tracking the origins of offensive web content used to scare North-East people across India. As per reports, New Delhi will seek the help of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to track specific content hosted on American servers. The decision to seek U.S. help came after it was found that the main source of the offensive images, videos and hate SMSes was Pakistan.

Thousands of people from the North-East ran away from various cities last week after hate messages were spread through mobile phones and on Facebook, threatening retaliation for the ethnic violence in Assam last month.