Google, Koo Release Compliance Reports Under New IT Rules.
- ByStartupStory | July 2, 2021
India’s micro blogging site Koo and Google release compliance reports as mandated by IT Rules. In its maiden report, Koo has proactively moderated 54,235 content pieces, while 5,502 posts were reported by its users, in the last month. It is the first Indian social media network, to release it’s monthly compliance report as has been guidelines by the new IT rules by the Government of India. Google, however, said it received over 27,700 complaints in April this year from individual users in India over alleged violation of local laws or personal rights, which resulted in removal of 59,350 pieces of content, according to its maiden monthly transparency report. Koo said its report for June 2021 shows that of the 5,502 Koos (posts) reported by its user community, 22.7 per cent (1,253) were removed, while ‘other action’ was taken against the rest (4,249 Koos).
Koo took steps to proactively moderate 54,235 Koos, of which 2.2 per cent (1,996) were removed, while ‘other action’ was taken against the rest (52,239), Koo said in an email to PTI. ‘Other action’ includes overlay, blur, ignore, warning etc on Koos that do not comply with the guidelines. Koo, which has over 6 million users, said its compliance report would be published and available on the first day of each month and it would include detailed insights. Under the new IT rules, digital platforms, which have more than 5 million users,will have to publish periodic compliance reports every month, mentioning the details of complaints received and action taken thereon. The report is to also include the number of specific communication links or parts of information that the intermediary has removed or disabled access to in pursuance of any proactive monitoring conducted by using automated tools.
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