MUMBAI: Actor-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt on Friday said she has made her Instagram account private after receiving death and rape threats on social media.
In a post on the social media platform, Pooja said that she has been advised to make her account private after the barrage of hate her family has been receiving in the wake of actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death.
She added that the platform, owned by Facebook, has become a place for people to hurl abuses and threats of rape and death to others.
“This has to be said. Instagram seems to have become a place where people anonymously & otherwise use their access to hurl abuse, threaten rape and goad you to ‘go die’,” she said.
Pooja said she used to ignore such threats in the past.
“But is someone wishing you and your family death, constructive criticism or just an attempt at vile cyber bullying? I have been advised to turn off all comments but by doing that you block out all the positive, well meaning constructive feedback as well,” Pooja said in her post on Instagram.
Pooja’s family has faced trolling on social media since Rajput’s death in June this year.
Her father Mahesh Bhatt, who produced Rhea Chakraborty’s film “Jalebi”, is also being trolled. Rajput’s father has accused Rhea of abetting his suicide. (AGENCIES)
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