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  Under new IT rules, large digital platforms – with over 5 million users – will have to publish periodic compliance reports every month, mentioning the details of complaints received and action taken Google received 36,934 complaints from users and removed 95,680 pieces of content based on those complaints in July, the tech giant company said in its monthly transparency reports released on Tuesday. In addition to reports from users, Google also removed 5,76,892 pieces of content in July as a result of automated detection. The US-based company has made these disclosures as part of compliance with India’s IT rules that came into force on May 26. On Tuesday, Google said it had received 36,934 complaints in July from individual users located in India via designated mechanisms, and the number of removal actions as a result of user complaints was 95,680 – the highest so far. In June,  Google  had received 36,265 complaints and removed 83,613 pieces of content as a result of us...

  According to rules, significant social media intermediaries have to notify the details of their Indian-based chief compliance officer, nodal contact person and grievance officer The Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said Wednesday that Twitter has “failed to comply” with the new IT Rules that came into effect from May 26. Responding to reports about Twitter losing its safe harbour provision under its intermediary status in India, Prasad tweeted, “There are numerous queries arising as to whether Twitter is entitled to safe harbour provision. However, the simple fact of the matter is that Twitter has failed to comply with the intermediary guidelines that came into effect from May 26.” He added that Twitter was given multiple opportunities to comply with the new rules, but it failed to do so. MeitY had said on May 28 that major social media intermediaries have shared the details as required under the new IT Rules, 2021, except  Twitter , ...