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Social media platforms to face rules making them liable for content from next year, India’s IT Ministry tells Supreme Court

By Phoebe Seers ( October 22, 2019, 06:31 GMT | Insight) -- Rules that will hold social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube liable for content published on their sites will be introduced by the end of January, India’s IT ministry told the country's Supreme Court in an affidavit filed yesterday. The rules were being formulated to address the “unimaginable disruption” to democracy caused by the Internet, the ministry said.Rules that will hold social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube liable for content published on their sites will be introduced by the end of January, India’s IT ministry told the country's Supreme Court in an affidavit filed yesterday....

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