News Meta’s GAC Orders in India More Than Double in January 2024: Transparency Reports Meta's transparency report reveals a sharp rise in GAC orders from India in January 2024, exceeding the overall monthly GAC orders sent in the... Vallari SanzgiriMarch 5, 2024
News November Sees Significant Drop in Hate Speech on Twitter Twitter recorded a notable decrease in hate speech reports in November, down to 556 incidents from October's 1,424 incidents. Vallari SanzgiriJanuary 2, 2024
News India’s Grievance Appellate Committee Directs Meta to Take Down “Fake” Interview of Karan Thapar Promoting Bitcoin and Get-Rich-Quick Schemes Thapar also denied affiliations with the video and said that the content circulating on social media was false and fabricated. Aarathi GanesanDecember 29, 2023
News Over 20 GAC orders sent to Meta and WhatsApp in October, show transparency reports October saw a sharp rise in online hate speech, with significant actions taken by Meta, WhatsApp, and Twitter. Vallari SanzgiriDecember 7, 2023
News Complaint filed against ticket reselling site Viagogo for reselling ICC World Cup tickets at inflated prices Among other practices, tickets to India vs. Pakistan match on October 14 bought for ~Rs.4000-5000 are being listed for over Rs 2 lakhs. This... Sarvesh MathiSeptember 20, 2023
News India’s Grievance Appellate Committee sent 13 orders to social media companies in July Transparency reports from Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter and Google for July 2023 showed a noticeable increase in the orders sent by the GAC Vallari SanzgiriSeptember 4, 2023
News User grievances on social media platforms in June higher by 10,000 compared to May The total number of grievances reported by Indian social media users in June, 2023 stood at 76,321, roughly 10,000 more than the number of... Vallari SanzgiriAugust 11, 2023
News Grievance Appellate Committee Orders Under IT Rules Can’t be Appealed: IT Minister Citizens can approach the Supreme Court and High Courts for the enforcement of their fundamental rights Aarathi GanesanApril 6, 2023
News Where can users file grievances with Grievance Appellate Committees against social media companies? Indian govt has set up a platform to process and segregate user complaints against social media companies submitted to the Grievance Appellate Committee MitakshFebruary 28, 2023
News India forms 3 grievance appellate committees to look at social media user appeals Each Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) consists of one chairperson and two whole-time members, who will serve for three-year terms. Sarvesh MathiJanuary 30, 2023