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The government and other stakeholders will draw up actionable items in 10 days on ways to detect deepfakes, to prevent their uploading and viral sharing and to strengthening the reporting mechanism for such content, thus allowing…

The Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to review goods and services tax (GST) on online gaming, casinos and horse racing is likely to stay with the 18% tax on gross gaming revenue (GGR), people aware of details told ET. The Meghalaya chief…

Amid the debate over the government forming a fact-checking unit to curb the flow of misinformation on various social media platforms, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Saturday said there are no…

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The Noida police busted a gang involved in duping hundreds of women in the name of customs officials by befriending them through online dating app, here on Sunday. While investigating the matter the Police nabbed six Nigerian nationals…

The government gave orders to block public access to 8146 Facebook links, 2546 Instagram links, 10264 Twitter links, 4675 YouTube links, and 3523 links to other social media and internet intermediaries between 2018 and 2022, the minister of…

The government neither controls social media intermediaries nor casts any fetters on the freedom of expression of their users, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written…

Last June, we reported that the Indian government had asked a UN ad hoc committee to adopt measures similar to those in Section 66A of the Information Technology Act – which the Supreme Court declared illegal in 2015 – to counter the use of…

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