Homegrown micro-blogging platform Koo on Saturday said it has met the compliance requirements of the new IT (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules 2021 ahead of its May 25 deadline set by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology .
Koo app says it has complied with India’s new social media guidelines
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Aprameya Radhakrishna, co-founder and chief executive officer of Koo app, says user safety and convenience is of “utmost importance” and that his company cares deeply about it.
The Koo app has clocked close to six million downloads now and that makes it a major social media intermediary, the homegrown rival to Twitter says.
New Delhi: The Koo app has met the compliance requirements of Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (Rules), ahead of the prescribed date of May 25, 2021, the homegrown rival to Twitter Inc. said on Saturday.
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The government of India, in a May 7 advisory told social media companies to curb misinformation and fake news, and content that “that may affect public order and [be] unlawful in any way”. The advisory, a copy of which MediaNama has obtained in full via Right To Information request, and is published below, tells social media companies to warn users to not spread misinformation, and to “
[i]ssue warning to imposters who misuse your platform and indulge in such fraudulent activities.” Word of the advisory was first broken by the Economic Times.
Going beyond the IT Rules
“Social media platforms are intermediaries as defined under section 2(1)(w) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and are required to follow due diligence as prescribed in the
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As COVID-19 continues to ravage India, the nation’s government has told it populace that 5G signals have nothing to do with the spread of the virus – if only because no 5G networks operate in India.
A statement from the nation’s Department of Telecommunications states “several misleading messages are being circulated on various social media platforms claiming that the second wave of coronavirus has been caused by the testing of the 5G mobile towers.”
After pointing out that the very notion is a nonsense, the department points out that India approved 5G trials on May 4th and they won’t start for months.
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The platforms have also been asked to take “immediate action” to disable or remove such content, promote dissemination of authentic information related to the Covid-19 outbreak and issue “warnings” to imposters who misuse the platform.
According to the advisory - sent by the Ministry of Electronics and IT - social media platforms are intermediaries as defined under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and are therefore required to follow due diligence, as prescribed in the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
The rules were notified in February under Section 79 of the IT Act.