Social media companies must act proactively on child safety, grievances, algorithmic transparency: Vaishnaw

The Hindu · PTI · 2026-11-06 11:56 UTC

IT Minister Vaishnaw urges proactive social media safety, transparency, and direct grievance redressal mechanisms for users.

Social media platforms must take responsibility for content, necessary steps to ensure child safety, ensure measures on algorithmic transparency, and give citizens an effective voice to address grievances, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday (November 6, 2026).

The Minister said that internet and social media landscape has changed, and asserted that platforms must proactively protect society from serious online harms, including "digital arrest" scams.

"Today, social media platforms must take the responsibility for child safety, for women's safety, for digital arrest, for the harms which come to the citizens... Unlike in the past, they must take proactive steps to make sure that our society is safe," said Mr. Vaishnaw, who is also Minister for Information and Broadcasting (I&B).

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