National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) said on April 24 more than 19,000 social media had been taken down for inciting hate and spreading terrorism in the country, reports The News. Google, Facebook, and Twitter had taken down the 19,727 accounts involved in spreading hate and terrorism, the NACTA said. 9,633 pages were spreading religious hatred, while 10,094 social media accounts were promoting terrorism and were blocked on the request of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), NACTA said. NACTA said five websites, spreading terrorism-related material, were also blocked, adding a total of 24,038 social media-related complaints were filed in 2020.