New Delhi: To bring transparency and streamline the system in social media content take down procedures, the Union Ministry of Electronics and IT has said that only senior officials can issue order removal of unlawful information. As per the amended IT rules that come into effect from November 15 says, only top officials with the rank of joint secretary or higher and police officials who are serving as the Deputy Inspector General or above can issue content takedown orders. The new rules also required that concerned authorities have to intimation to social media companies by specifying the reasons for issuing removal of content

Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) in a legal battle with the IT Ministry on the content removal issue. The X earlier alleged that the governme

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