In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world and states struggled to contain the economic fallout of shutting down cities, social media became a petri dish of social commentary, and perhaps more importantly, a driving platform for governments to not only communicate domestically, but internationally as well, while simultaneously facing increasing challenges and erosion of trust from populations. While platforms face the uphill challenge of extremist actors, often of the non-state variety, using the Internet to propagate and recruit, the other side of this, which is governments, and their use of social media also requires to be placed under the spotlight.
Jaishankar calls out China, Pak on terrorism, unveils 8-point plan
By IANS| Published: 13th January 2021 10:11 am IST
By Arul Louis
New York, Jan 13 : Calling out Pakistan for its support for terrorism and China for providing terrorists cover against sanctions, India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has unveiled an eight-point plan against the global scourge.
Before his speech on Tuesday at a Security Council ministerial meeting, Tunisia’s Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi, who presided, issued a consensus statement affirming the obligation of all nations to “to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorism” and the need to strengthen international action against terrorism.
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