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MeitY Confronts Social Media Giants Over Bot-Driven Misinformation, Deepfakes

Government asks platforms: how do you tackle bot accounts?

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Storyboard•13-03-2026, 09:30

MeitY Confronts Social Media Giants Over Bot-Driven Misinformation, Deepfakes

•MeitY met major social media firms to address bot-driven misinformation and its amplification.
•Meeting chaired by IT ministry secretary S Krishnan, with reps from Google, Meta, OpenAI, Snap, Sharechat, Zupee present.
•Discussion focused on how bots create "manufactured reality" of high engagement and company infrastructure to curb them.
•Government sought inputs on potential need for policies/regulations and discussed deepfakes, copyright, and data protection.
•Follows parliamentary warnings on AI misinformation threat and recommendations for mandatory labelling, stricter penalties, and tools like SAMVAD.

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