Donald Trump’s social media diktat may not shift India’s stand

New Delhi: US President Donald Trump’s executive order diluting immunity enjoyed by social media companies is unlikely to change India’s stand on making firms such as Twitter and Facebook more responsible and accountable for content posted on their platforms.

India has been facing a challenge of misinformation on a large scale and has had to deal with situations such as mob lynching due to unchecked hate speech and fake news on social media. This has made New Delhi propose key policy changes to legislation that puts the onus of checking content largely on social media companies.

India and the US, though, are reconsidering the immunity for different reasons, said Udbhav Tiwari, policy advisor with Mozilla.