With the growing importance of new information technology and social media tools like Twitter and FaceBook, India has asked the United Nations to treat digital media at par with traditional media.
“It is important not to treat the digital media, which in many countries caters to a different segment of society, differently from the traditional media, as that would be divisive,” Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien, who represented India, said at the 67th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.