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“Big Step Towards Transparency”: Minister’s Praise For Facebook, Google


Ravi Shankar Prasad tweeted this afternoon about new IT guidelines. (File picture)

New Delhi:

Elimination of “offensive posts” by social media giants like Google, Fb and Instagram after the federal government’s new IT guidelines got here into impact is a “massive step in the direction of transparency”, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad stated this afternoon.

Fb took motion towards greater than 30 million posts whereas photo-sharing app Instagram, additionally owned by Fb, acted towards about two million posts between Might 15 and June 15, information company PTI reported, citing Fb’s first compliance report.

Search engine Google eliminated 59,350 hyperlinks from its merchandise, together with YouTube.

In its report, homegrown social media app Koo stated it has acted on 1,253 of the 5,502 complaints.

“Good to see important social media platforms like Google, Fb and Instagram following the brand new IT Guidelines. First compliance report on voluntary elimination of offensive posts printed by them as per IT Guidelines is a giant step in the direction of transparency,” Ravi Shankar Prasad tweeted right now.

New IT guidelines make social media web sites, which have over 50 lakh customers, extra accountable for the third-party content material for the primary time.

These companies now need to publish month-to-month studies with the main points of complaints acquired and motion taken. Taking motion may embrace eradicating a chunk of content material or overlaying photographs or movies that could be disturbing to some audiences with a warning.

The social media giants are additionally required to nominate a chief compliance officer, a nodal officer and a grievance officer and these officers are required to be resident in India.

The Union Minister’s feedback come as troubles develop for Twitter, which just lately appointed World Authorized Coverage Director Jeremy Kessel because the grievance officer for India to comply with the brand new guidelines.

In his tweet, Ravi Shankar Prasad didn’t point out Twitter.

4 circumstances have been filed towards Twitter to this point – two in UP, one in Madhya Pradesh and one in Delhi – over user-generated content material after the brand new guidelines got here into impact. 

Critics have raised issues that Twitter might now not take pleasure in safety towards user-generated content material.

With over 624 million customers, India has one of many highest variety of web customers on the planet. The nation has over 448 million social media customers, in line with tough estimates. 

(With inputs from PTI) 
 

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