IT Ministry might difficulty FAQs on new social media guidelines in 1-2 weeks

New Delhi: The IT Ministry is prone to difficulty FAQs pertaining to the brand new middleman guidelines within the subsequent 1-2 weeks, a supply mentioned.

The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) would contact upon varied points of the brand new guidelines, together with the measures, how the norms would profit customers of social media platforms, and some other clarification that stakeholders might have.

The FAQs are at present being labored on and are prone to be issued in 1-2 weeks, the supply within the IT Ministry mentioned, including that the set of FAQs would handle 10-20 questions.

The new IT guidelines for social media firms, which got here into impact final month, mandate giant platforms like Facebook and Twitter to undertake better due diligence and make these digital platforms extra accountable and chargeable for the content material hosted by them.

Under the foundations, important social media intermediaries — these with over 50 lakh customers — are required to nominate a grievance officer, a nodal officer and a chief compliance officer. These personnel must be residents in India. Further, social media firms are required to take down flagged content material inside 36 hours and take away inside 24 hours content material that’s flagged for points reminiscent of nudity and pornography.

Earlier this month, the federal government had given one final probability to Twitter to adjust to the brand new guidelines and had issued a stern warning that failure to stick to the norms will result in the platform dropping exemption from legal responsibility beneath the IT Act.

Twitter lately misplaced its ‘protected harbour’ defend in India over non-compliance with IT guidelines and failure to nominate key personnel mandated beneath the brand new pointers, regardless of repeated reminders, and the platform is now accountable for customers posting any illegal content material.

The IT Ministry had questioned Twitter over not offering details about the Chief Compliance Officer as required beneath the foundations. Also, the resident grievance officer and nodal contact individual nominated by the corporate just isn’t an worker of Twitter Inc in India as prescribed within the guidelines, the ministry had earlier flagged.

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