Read moreThe three cases were raised during an Indian supreme court inquiry into how technology giants including Facebook and Google handle abusive content from India on their platforms. Last week the supreme court ordered the companies and the Indian government to overhaul their processes for dealing with child-abuse materials and videos depicting rape or gang rape. Facebook told the court that between March 2016 and August this year it received 7,802 user complaints from India about possible child-abuse material. More than 40 children were rescued and at least 39 people arrested after the page was reported to Indian authorities. The supreme court took up the investigation after Prajwala highlighted the existence of hundreds of videos and images of rape and child abuse being shared across social media platforms.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2017 04:12 UTC