“Streamlining social media to make it ethical by all means”
Srinagar, Nov 16: Joint Director Information and Public Relations (DIPR) Muhammad Aslam Saturday said that new media policy is in offing and will be rolled out soon.
Speaking to news agency on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, Mohammad Aslam said that the department is following Media Policy 2020, while new policy is in the offing and will be rolled out soon.
“Our top priority is to ensure people get right and acurate information. We are working on several models to ensure ethics are followed while sharing information with the public. We are acting as a carrier of information,” he said
He said that in view of massive boom of social media, the department is working on a model to ensure social media based information remains ethical by all means.
“We have to create an ethical landscape for the social media. There is also huge transformation from print to digital media. We are aware of it and there are many proposals that are being followed,” he said.
