April Fool’s Day: Delhi Police has a strict warning for you

It may be a good idea for you to skip ‘celebrating’ April Fools Day this time as India fights the coronavirus crisis. The Delhi Police has issued several warnings on social media and said that it would be monitoring WhatsApp groups and social media platforms to check the spread of fake news, rumours on April 1. Delhi Police is warning that strict legal action would be taken against anyone attempting to fool people by spreading rumours in the guise of April Fools day.
Recently, the Mumbai police had arrested a man after they discovered that a man was spreading fake news on WhatsApp groups to create panic by saying that the Indian Army would be deployed in the city to enforce the lockdown. The authorities have been warning people to desist from sharing unreliable information on social media as fake news and rumours make it more difficult for them to fight the spread of the disease. It is highly recommended that readers do not entertain any April Fools Day jokes and blindly share them on social media as it may land them behind bars.

Meanwhile, Google has cancelled all its Fool's Day pranks this year. According to the report, Lorraine Twohill, head of marketing at Google, wrote in an email (first obtained by Business Insider) to the company's managers, “Under normal circumstances, April Fools’ is a Google tradition and a time to celebrate what makes us an unconventional company.”
Announcing the break from the tradition for this year, the email added, "This year, we're going to take the year off from that tradition out of respect for all those fighting the Covid-19 pandemic." "Our highest goal right now is to be helpful to people, so let's save the jokes for next April, which will undoubtedly be a whole lot brighter than this one."