The Twitter and Facebook logo along with binary cyber codes are seen in this illustration taken November 26, 2019. [Dado Ruvic/Illustration, Reuters]India announced new rules on Thursday to regulate big social media firms, such as Facebook and Twitter, the latest effort by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to tighten control over Big Tech firms. The new measures will require big social media companies to set up a grievance redressal mechanism and appoint executives to coordinate with law enforcement, the government said in a news statement. The government said the guidelines in its code of digital media ethics were needed to hold social media and other companies accountable for misuse and abuse. Read MoreSocial media firms should be “more responsible and accountable,” Ravi Shankar Prasad, the minister for information technology, told reporters in outlining the rules.

Source: Standard Digital February 25, 2021 14:21 UTC