Deepfakes: Law against misinformation clear, online platforms must abide or face tighter rules

The government is very clear on ensuring that digital fakery must end. Ahead of the meeting with online platforms such as Google, Facebook, YouTube on Friday, November 24th on the issue of deepfakes, India’s IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar speaking to Financial Express Online says: “the meeting on the 24th is simply to reiterate that the current law and rules provide for platforms to take down misinformation and that deepfakes are misinformation powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI).” He says, “we will lay out what the current laws and rules are and share our thinking on this and emphasise that if necessary, we will tighten rules and the law to deal with this issue.”