India will come up with new regulations to tackle deepfakes, the Union IT Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday. India’s concern over deepfakes comes amidst recent instances of actors and politicians finding their morphed videos being circulated across social media platforms. The IT Ministry will again be meeting social media platforms on the ssue “in first week of December”. “Social media companies acknowledged that the problem of deepfakes is not restricted to India. They agreed that there needs to be ways to tackle this problem,” Vaishnaw said.

Source: The Hindu November 24, 2023 06:11 UTC