content moderation Archives

MeitY Advisory to Social Media Platforms on Unlawful Online Content: Compliance Under IT Act & Rules

MeitY has issued an advisory directing intermediaries and social media platforms to prevent hosting, sharing, or transmission of obscene, indecent, sexually explicit, paedophilic, or otherwise unlawful online content; directing to remove them within 24 hours.

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Read why SCOTUS dismissed challenge to Federal communications pertaining to content moderation by social media platforms to suppress misleading information

The Court found that the respondents could not establish locus standi to seek any injunction against the impugned communications vis-a-vis content moderation by social media to suppress misleading information especially related to Covid-19 and 2020 Presidential Elections.