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| India has stricter regulations on the social media giant |
India announced new regulations for social media and other web services in the country, especially for large social media companies with large user base such as Facebook and Twitter.
The Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology MEITY announced the base today.
According to this rule, social media companies should put in place mechanisms to resolve user complaints, including official complaints handlers, who acknowledge complaints within 24 hours and resolve them within 15 days.
The service must also remove nudity and sexually explicit content within 24 hours of reporting it to users.
Big social media brokers also have other roles: These companies are expected to hire law enforcement officers in India and publish monthly reports on surveillance activity.
Important services that focus on messaging should also be set up to identify the primary sender of the message. The list could refer to the popular WhatsApp service.
Indian organizers previously asked WhatsApp to identify the source of the anonymous rumors that sparked the violence. However, the platform assumes that doing so will lead to end-to-end encryption breach.
The framework also states that India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology can regulate digital media services, including video transmission platforms, and that digital intelligence services must follow formal standards of behavior for information that is tracked by traditional media.
The head of India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said: The base aims to make social media companies more accountable and accountable for the content of their platforms.
US social media companies are grappling with violence, hate speech and political strife in India.
The local Facebook political leader resigned last year under pressure from activists. Earlier this month, a row broke out between Twitter and India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology over a ban on activists critical of the Indian government.
Last year, India strengthened public censorship of foreign internet companies and in June 2020 banned TikTok and other Chinese social apps due to threats to national sovereignty.
TikTok cut its workforce in India last month in what is known as the "India pullout".