Assam Police's special cell is actively monitoring social media to curb malicious content ahead of Assembly elections. The unit, operating ...

Happy Wednesday! Experts have raised concerns over the proposed amendments to the IT rules. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatc...

Proposed amendments to India’s Information Technology Rules, 2021 spell an expanded compliance burden for intermediaries and a significant ...

While the draft amendments unveiled on Monday do not categorise online users as publishers, the content generated by them may face the same...

New draft amendments to IT rules propose mandatory compliance for intermediaries with government clarifications and guidelines. Digital rig...

India's government is taking strong steps against fake news and AI deepfakes on social media. Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw highlighted the nee...

The petition asked the court to declare the government’s new reading of Section 79 and the use of Rule 3(1)(d) ultra vires (beyond legal po...

President Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a bipartisan law targeting non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes. Introduced by Senato...

An Indian court has ordered the removal of allegedly defamatory statements from Wikipedia regarding a domestic news agency, ANI. The Wikime...

Karnataka High Court will hear a case involving X (formerly Twitter) alleging the Government of India is misusing Section 79 of the IT Act ...

Anant Nath, president of Editors Guild of India and the Association of Indian Magazines, both of which are petitioners in the fact-check un...

Media ownership norms also must be made applicable to online news providers. In a rapidly evolving scenario of news convergence, differenti...

The government, which invoked "emergency powers" under India's IT laws, said it had for the first time blocked 18 Indian YouTube channels, ...

It is learnt that while the platforms claimed to have taken down over 8 million videos on various counts from copyright violation to child ...

The officials, from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B), strongly criticised the companies and said their inaction on fake n...

The internet firms also plan to direct their request through the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).

Google uses an automated identification system called ContentID on its video-sharing website YouTube to deal with copyright issues.