India, April 17 -- Akash Singhania, an Indian living in the United States, has shared the terrible experience of being wrongly accused of pedophilia by a well-known personality.

Russian YouTuber Vitaly Zdorovetskiy leveled these serious accusations against him, before admitting that he had been wrong in the identification process. The incident has ignited a larger debate on digital responsibility.

What was to be a regular day for Singhania, turned into a nightmare threatening to ruin his career, personal life as well as his mental state.

The scandal went viral as YouTuber popular for "sting" operations against suspected predators created a video in which he said that he approached the man in a crowded location. But, it soon turned out ...