MeitY Said to Conduct Quarterly Compliance Audit for Social Media Firms

The Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) will now conduct compliance audits of social media firms each quarter, an official supply stated on Thursday.

At current, social media platforms are required to reveal their compliance with IT guidelines 2021 each month the place they disclose motion taken by them in response to varied grievances.

“Meity has now put in place a mechanism to audit compliance of social media intermediaries under IT rules every quarter. As part of the audit, the ministry will verify if social media companies are reporting about grievances raised to them correctly and if their action taken is in sync with the laid out rules,” the supply instructed PTI.

To tighten the noose on social media platforms, the federal government has proposed to arrange an appellate panel which can have energy to overrule selections taken by social media firms with respect to any grievance. The public session course of with respect to the proposed rule has been wrapped up by the IT ministry.

In June, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar stated that the Indian authorities’s proposal to arrange a grievances appellate panel follows a number of complaints that social media platforms aren’t adequately redressing the problems raised by the individuals.

The Minister of State for Electronics and IT held an open home dialogue with stakeholders on a draft notification to amend the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

The authorities has proposed to arrange a grievance panel that can have the facility to override the choices of social media firms and different web corporations.

The social media platforms must act on complaints that violate Indian legal guidelines and can’t contravene the rights of residents granted beneath the structure, he added.