Ravi Shankar Prasad

Ravi Shankar Prasad (born 30 August 1954) is an Indian politician and a lawyer. He served as Union Minister holding the Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology and Communications portfolios between 2014 and 2021. In 2019, Prasad defeated actor turned politician Shatrughan Sinha, from Patna Sahib seat by a margin of 2.84 lakh votes. During the NDA Government under Atal Bihari Vajpayee's prime ministership, Prasad was appointed Minister of Coal and Mines, Minister of Law and Justice, and Minister of Information and Broadcasting.

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 * Social media companies already have appointed fact checkers. Who are these fact-checkers and how are they appointed? There are some fact-checkers whose main agenda is drive hatred against Modi.
 * There are many fact-checkers employed by the company. For example, if someone tweets something, these fact-checkers check whether it is right or wrong. Who are these fact-checkers? Neither are their names made public, nor there is any information on how they have been appointed. These people have the responsibility of regulating what 130 crore Indians can tweet.
 * These fact checkers have just one agenda: Hate Modi. They don’t want to criticise, they just want to hate Modi. And these people are financially supported by such people who want to see country split into pieces. Is it not our job to monitor this? In a country of 130 crores, can’t you get neutral objective fact-checkers? These questions will be asked and they should be asked.
 * What you do is your job and your right. But how you do it should be made public. That’s why the government had to release an elaborate response yesterday. A US-based for-profit making company is lecturing us on democracy? They are teaching us about the freedom of expression? This is unacceptable.
 * — Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) May 29, 2021