NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s authorities is not going to allow social media platforms to host any info that it identifies as false, in keeping with a draft proposal of the nation’s IT guidelines launched this week.

This is the newest in a slew of measures by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authorities which can be being seen as efforts to rein in huge tech companies.

Any info recognized as “fake or false” by the Press Information Bureau (PIB), or by another company authorised for fact-checking by the federal government or “by its department in which such business is transacted”, could be prohibited below the draft.

Once info was recognized as such, social media platforms or different “online intermediaries” must “make reasonable efforts” to make sure customers don’t “host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, store, update or share” such info, it added.

In October, the federal government introduced a panel could be set as much as hear complaints from customers concerning content material moderation choices of social media companies, that are already required to nominate in-house grievance redressal officers and executives to co-ordinate with regulation enforcement officers.

The authorities has additionally repeatedly been concerned in tussles with varied platforms once they didn’t heed calls for that sure content material or accounts be taken down for allegedly spreading misinformation.

(Reporting by Sakshi Dayal; Editing by Alex Richardson)