These days, social media posts in India are no longer about cheeky photos, funny memes or political jokes. Instead, frantic calls to save lives are flooding Twitter and Instagram as the latest wave of coronavirus cases and deaths overwhelm the nation’s hospitals and crematoriums. “My brain can’t handle the social media overload," said Pottekkat, a 20-year-old Delhi law student. Thousands of social media forwards plead for the antiviral drug Remdesivir, and many more seek donor plasma. Those who put together crowd-sourced, authentic information on social media are today’s heroes in the current situation, said Vikas Chawla, co-founder of Chennai-headquartered digital agency, Social Beat.

Source: Mint April 22, 2021 06:36 UTC