We have known for a long time that the same social media that we use to share pictures of kittens and funny quizzes can also be used to unleash the dogs of war. “Instances of misuse of Twitter, Facebook, email, blogs and Whatsapp to spread hate campaign in the country have come to the notice of the government from time to time,” minister of state for home Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary said in reply to a written question in 2015. When Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched to death in Dadri, the mob that came for him had been fired up by three photos of meat and bones, circulated via Whatsapp as proof of cow slaughter.