New Delhi: Facebook Media Giant on Tuesday said that it will publish a temporary report on July 2 as mandated by IT rules, and provide information about the amount of content deleted proactively between June 15-15.
The final report will be published on July 15, containing the details of the user complaints received and the action was taken.
New IT rules – which come into force from May 26 – Mandate of large social media companies to publish periodic compliance reports every month, mention the details of complaints received and the actions taken.
The report also includes the number of specific communication links or information sections that are eliminated intermediaries or disable access to according to proactive monitoring carried out using automatic tools.
“In accordance with IT rules, we will publish a temporary report for the period of June 15 – June 15 on 2.
This report will contain the details of the content that we deleted proactively using our automatic tool,” Facebook spokesman said in a statement.
A spokesman added that the final report will be published on July 15, which contains the details of the user complaints received and the actions taken.
Reports on July 15 will also contain data related to WhatsApp, which is currently validated, the next spokesman is stated.
Reports on July 2 will be “temporary reports” and will not enter the details of the complaints received and the actions taken on it as “we are in the process of validating this data” and that the data will be provided in the July 15 report, according to the information available on the page Facebook Web Transparency Center.
New IT rules are designed to prevent digital abuse and abuse of platforms, and offer strong forum users for redressal complaints.
Under these rules, social media companies must take content marked within 36 hours, and remove in 24-hour content marked for nudity and pornography.
Significant social media intermediaries – those who have more than 5 million registered users in India – are also required to appoint a Head of Compliance Officer, a Nodal officer and a complaint officer and these officials are required to become a resident in India.
Mismatches with IT rules will produce this platform loss of their intermediary status that gives them the immunity of the liability of third-party data hosted by them.
In other words, they can be responsible for criminal acts if there are complaints.
Facebook was recently named Spoorthi Priya as a complaint officer in India, while Facebook’s WhatsApp has appointed Paresh B Lal as a complaint officer for India.
India is the main market for global digital platforms.
According to the data quoted by the government recently, India has 53 users of Crore WhatsApp, 41 CRORE Facebook customers, 21 clients Instagram Crore, while account holders 1.75 Crore are on the Microblogging Twitter platform.