Grievance Appellate Committees

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  WhatsApp Banned Over 66 Lakh Accounts In India In May, Here's Why

  The popular mobile messaging platform, which has more than 550 million users in India, received 13,367 grievances from the country, and the records "actioned" were just 31.

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  Facebook Acted on Only 27 Percent of User Complaints in May in India as Grievances Surged to 16,995

  Meta's Facebook took action against only around 27 percent of complaints it received from users and Instagram against less than half of the total grievances raised by users in May 2023, according to the company's latest India Monthly Report. Individual grievances on Facebook more than doubled to 16,995 and jumped over 68 percent on Instagram in May...

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  WhatsApp Banned Over 4.7 Million Accounts in March in India, Complied With All 3 GAC Orders

  Meta-owned WhatsApp banned over 4.7 million accounts in March, higher than the number of accounts it barred in the preceding month, and it received and complied with three orders from the Grievance Appellate Committee during March. The monthly user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken b...

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  3 Grievance Appellate Committees By Centre After Amendments To IT Rules

  The Centre has established three Grievance Appellate Committees based on the recently amended Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 ("IT Rules 2021").

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  Centre To Set Up 3 Panels To Handle Social Media Users' Complaints: Report

  The grievance appellate committees (GACs) will be able to review content moderation decisions by social media companies like Meta and Twitter, and can overrule decisions of the big tech firms on takedown or blocking requests.

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  Modalities For Grievance Appellate Committee To Be Out In 10-12 Days: Minister

  The government will come out with proposed modalities and terms of references for setting up grievance appellate committees to address social media users' complaints in the next 10-12 days, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said .

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  Government Amends IT Rules to Set Up Grievance Appellate Panels for Social Media

  The government on Friday tweaked IT rules to pave way for setting up of grievance appellate panels, which will settle issues that users may have against the way social media platforms initially addressed their complaints regarding content and other matters. The 'Grievance Appellate Committees' will be set up within three months, according to a gaze...

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  Government May Set Up Committees to Redress User Grievance Against Social Media Platforms: Officials

  The government plans to set up appellate committees to redress grievances that users may have against the way social media platforms initially addressed their complaints regarding content and other issues, officials said. Amendments may provide for social media platforms to acknowledge within 24 hours user complaints and resolve them within 15 days...

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  India’s Proposed IT Rules, Panel Formation for Content Moderation Decisions Concern US Tech Giants

  India’s proposed plans making it mandatory for social media giants to comply with a newly formed government panel which will decide on user complaints against content moderation decisions has upset the American tech giants including Facebook and Twitter. The government has not specified who would be on the panel.

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  Centre's Proposal To Amend Social Media Rules

  The Centre plans to set up a grievance appellate committee to look into appeals filed by individuals against the decisions of grievance officers of social media platforms.

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  Government May Set Up Panel To Hear Social Media Grievances

  India is considering whether to set up an appellate panel to hear grievances by social media users against operators' decisions to take down content