NEW DELHI: The government wants to enhance its oversight across social media platforms by taking various subsidiary steps, besides working to bring relevant laws, Union IT and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Rajya Sabha on Friday.The objective is to make social media platforms more “accountable” for any slanderous content posted on them. The minister in reply to a querstion, asked Opposition members to submit their phones and cooperate in the investigation to find the truth over Apple allegedly sending a message to them about “state-sponsored hackers” trying to attack their iPhones.In reply to another query, he said the government is amending “intermediary rules” for social media to tackle misinformation and deepfakes. “We are amending the intermediary rules. The reason is deepfake issues have come up in a very big way,” Vaishnaw informed the House.Expressing serious concern, he further said, “With the spread of misinformation and deep fakes, we must take strict and urgent action to ensure that this menace is removed. We are amending the intermediary rules. We are coming up with provisions where there is significant responsibility lying with the social media platforms so that they can detect deepfakes and misinformation to enable early action,” he said.
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