Social media a 'weapon of mass distraction': Bombay High Court judge

Justice Mahesh Sonak of the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court stated on Saturday that social media or mass media have become weapons of mass distraction, but there are no concerted efforts yet to tackle them.

- ASHISH SINHA

While addressing the students of GR Kare College of Law in Margao town during a lecture series 'GRK-Law Talks', Justice Sonak stated that he prefers to remain "uninformed" about several issues by not reading or seeing the news, which he thinks is "better than being misinformed".

He stated, "Today, we live in an age where we adore and glorify machines like computers and smartphones that think. But we are extremely suspicious or even wary of the human beings that attempt to think."