IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has lauded major social media platforms such as Google, Facebook and Instagram for publishing their first compliance report on voluntary removal of offensive posts as per new IT rules. The minister has termed it as a big step towards transparency.
Under the new IT rules, large digital platforms with over 5 million users are required to publish periodic compliance reports every month, mentioning the details of complaints received and action taken thereon.
In its compliance report, Facebook mentioned that it actioned over 30 million content pieces across 10 violation categories during May 15, 2021- June 15, 2021 in the country. Meanwhile, Instagram took action against about two million pieces across nine categories during the same period.
Further, Google informed the government in its compliance report that 27,762 complaints were received by Google and YouTube in April 2021 from individual users in India over alleged violation of local laws or personal rights, which resulted in removal of 59,350 pieces of content.
