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The government has asked Meta to take corrective action against deepfakes and harmful AI-generated content while examining whether its recommendation systems affect the company's intermediary status under Indian law. The Centre is also consulting other platforms on their legal status

AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Friday accused the Centre of tightening IT Rules to suppress criticism instead of addressing public grievances. His remarks came after amendments reduced the takedown period for sensitive online content to two hours from the earlier 24 hours

Though the intent of ensuring a “safe, trusted and accountable Internet” is laudable, the mechanism could upset the delicate balance between regulation and freedom

The Centre, via Meity, warned social media platforms of legal action if they fail to remove obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, and unlawful content. Platforms must review compliance frameworks and adhere strictly to IT Act and IT Rules, 2021 provisions

The Delhi High Court directed social media intermediaries to act within seven days on Sunil Gavaskar’s plea to protect his personality rights, treating his suit as a complaint under IT Rules, 2021. Gavaskar seeks removal of unauthorised online use of his name and likeness

Twitter banned 11,34,071 accounts in the reporting period in India.

Editors Guild of India expressed its deep concern on amendment to IT Rules 2021 made by the IT Ministry, giving authority to PIB to determine veracity of news reports terming it akin to censorship.

New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Wednesday said that it banned over 16.6 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of April in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The platform had banned over 18 lakh such accounts in the country in March. The company also received 844 grievance reports in April within the […]

New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) took down 24.6 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 2.7 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in the month of March, in accordance with the IT Rules 2021. Between March 1-31, Meta received 656 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism for Facebook, […]

New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Monday said that it banned over 18 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of March in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The platform had banned over 14 lakh such accounts in the country in February. The company said that it also received 597 grievance reports in the […]

New Delhi: WhatsApp on Friday said that it banned 1,426,000 bad accounts in India in the month of February in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021. The platform had banned 1,858,000 accounts in January. The company said that it also received 335 grievance reports in the same month from the country and took action […]

New Delhi: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Tuesday ordered the blocking of apps, website and social media accounts linked to the banned organisation, Sikhs For Justice (SFJ). In a statement, the Ministry said it has ordered the blocking of apps, website, and social media accounts of foreign-based ‘Punjab Politics TV’ having close links […]

New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Saturday said that it banned 1,759,000 accounts in India in November in compliance with the IT Rules 2021. WhatsApp also received 602 grievance reports in the same month from the country, and took action on 36 of those. “In accordance with the IT Rules 2021, we’ve published our sixth monthly […]

Why WhatsApp is against traceability clause in the new IT Rules 2021

The main requirement of the rule is that social media platforms have to appoint a resident grievance officer who is from India as part of a larger grievance redressal mechanism