Union IT and law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad praised Google, Facebook and Instagram to publish their first compliance reports about voluntary post-post-post removal. The Minister calls it a big step towards transparency.
“It’s nice to see a significant social media platform like Google, Facebook, and Instagram follow the new rules. The first compliance report about voluntary removal from offensive posts published by them according to the rules is a big step towards transparency,” he tweeted.
This new rule requires a large digital platform with more than 5 million users to publish a monthly compliance report. These documents include detailed complaints received by social media companies on content posted on their respective platforms and actions taken by them.
In his first compliance report, Facebook on Friday said ‘acting’ against more than 30 million content works across 10 violating categories for May 15 to June 15 in the country. Facebook sharing platform owned by Facebook Instagram said it was ‘acting’ against about two million pieces in nine categories during this period.
Content that is followed up refers to the number of pieces of content, including posts, photos, videos or comments, where the action has been taken for standard violations. Taking action can include removing a piece of content from Facebook or Instagram or covering photos or videos that might disturb some audiences with warnings.
Google Search Engine and the video sharing site YouTube received 27,762 complaints during April this year from individual users in India for alleged violations of local law or personal rights. This causes the removal of 59,350 pieces of content.
Koo, replacement of Homegrown Twitter, mentioned in the Compliance Report which proactively moderates 54,235 pieces of content, while 5,502 posts are reported by users during June.
In addition to publishing periodic compliance reports every month, the new rules establish social media intermediaries to disclose the number of specific communication links or information sections deleted or disabled access to proactive monitoring efforts carried out using automatic tools.
