A news about EVM is becoming increasingly viral. In which it is being claimed that the electronic voting machine will be the next 20 has been banned for years. This claim is being made on behalf of a YouTube channel . Let us investigate this viral news. , What is being claimed about EVM

Claim being made by a youtube channel Is that next to EVM has been banned for the year. The channel has claimed that EVMs have been banned following the order of the Supreme Court. It is also being claimed in the viral message that now elections will be held through ballot paper instead of EVM.

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EVM Banned After the news of the incident came to the fore, the PIB Fact Check team investigated it. In which it was found that the claim being made towards the YouTube channel is fake. The Supreme Court has not taken any such decision. PIB Fact Check has also shared the viral message on its official Twitter handle.

Fake news on EVMpib Centre action against six YouTube channels for spreading fake news

Government bans six YouTube channels Action has been taken against Lakh subscribers were found spreading fake news. PIB’s ‘Fact Check’ unit said that these six channels were working in a coordinated manner and spreading false information and their videos 48 was viewed more than 10 million times. In this channel – 5.56 Nation TV with more than a million subscribers, .9 Dialogue TV with lakh subscribers, Sarokar Bharat (), Nation01 (), Golden India (6,84)) and dialogue news (3.20 million subscribers). This is the second such action by the ‘Fact Check’ unit of PIB. Last month, the unit had busted three channels spreading fake news and wrote to YouTube to ban them.

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Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 6: 51 PM IST