India tightens grip on social media with new three-hour takedown rule
Summary
India mandates social media firms to remove unlawful content within three hours of notification, tightening earlier rules and posing challenges for platforms like Meta, YouTube, and X.
Key Points
- India's government has shortened the timeline for social media platforms to take down unlawful content from 36 hours to three hours.
- The new regulation amends the 2021 IT rules and will be effective from February 20.
- Platforms like Meta, YouTube, and X face operational challenges complying with the stricter timeline.
- The amended rules also require AI-generated content to be prominently labelled but relax earlier stringent labelling proposals.
