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MeitY highlights tighter takedown rules, AI safeguards against child abuse content
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has tightened compliance rules for social media platforms, cutting content removal timelines from 36 hours to 3 hours for court-ordered takedowns and mandating AI-generated content labelling and proactive detection of child sexual abuse material. Platforms that fail to comply risk losing safe harbour protections under the IT Act.
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If you operate a social media platform in India, your compliance costs just jumped: takedown timelines are now 12 times faster, and you must deploy AI to proactively hunt child abuse content or lose legal immunity. The safe harbour is now conditional, not guaranteed.
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