Govt of India has made a formal proposal under the new IT rules to disallow the spread of false or incorrect information on social media platforms.
According to the foreign news agency “Reuters”, according to the proposal of the draft of the country's IT rules released by the Indian government this week, social media platforms will not be allowed to broadcast any information that Based on lies.
The IT laws are the first of several measures by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in what is seen as an attempt to keep control of big technology companies. Going.
According to the report, such information is considered 'false or false' by the Press Information Bureau or any other agency or department authorized by the Government for fact-checking. Providing that information would be prohibited under this draft.
The report states that once the information is so identified, social media platforms or other online entities shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that users disseminate such information, Do not display, upload, publish, transmit, store, update or share. A panel will be set up to hear consumer complaints about
According to reports, the government has also repeatedly been at loggerheads with various platforms when companies failed to comply with demands to remove certain content or accounts for allegedly spreading misinformation. .