The Indian Government has recently introduced a special set of rules for social media platforms such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other sites on May 26, 2021. These rules include the removal of fake news, abusive content, defamatory content, morphed images of women, content supporting suicides, comments with abusive language, and other objective content. These Norms also include that social media sites have to submit the complaints they have received from the users and how they solved, how much content they have removed.

Google, Facebook, Instagram, and some other sites have recently submitted their monthly reports to the Central ministry. Central IT Minister Ravishankar prasad tweeted that it is a big step in ensuring transparency to the users of India and was happy with the reports. As per the reports, Facebook has removed over 3 crores of spam content and Instagram removed 20 lakh of it, which is 2.5 lakh posts, and 18 lakh of posts that are of crime and others promoting terrorism,5.8 lakh posts related to suicides.

Though this only for 15 days Facebook announced that the total monthly report will be submitted on July 15. Google also addressed that they received over 27 thousand complaints from users regarding various aspects and all this content is banned completely. Out of these more than 96 percent of the content are subject to copyrights. Twitter is still fighting in court against these Norms and is about to decide between them.

Twitter Stated that they are in the final stage of naming a grievance officer to address the complaints from users. The court is also expecting a positive response from Twitter otherwise it is ready to ban Twitter in India. Monthly reports, New IT norms will add more security to the users of India.

On average Indian users spend 2.4 hours on social media, most of the youngsters are simply addicted to these, fake account creations, Account shaking became common these days, fake clothing brand pages are looting innocent people's money on online orders and threatening people by hacking their accounts. Social media sites by properly answering users' complaints can suppress these activities and this is a great step by the Indian government to ensure safety and a healthy environment for its users. Terrorist groups are attracting youth to terrorism through social media hope these rules can stop them.

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