Overview
- Representatives of Meta, X, Google and ShareChat will be invited to the next Group of Ministers meeting to discuss platform accountability and safeguards for young users.
- Officials have been directed to draft rules to keep minors below a prescribed age off social media, with the specific threshold yet to be decided.
- The study will examine frameworks in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and France, including Australia’s 16-plus law and Malaysia’s e-KYC verification linked to national IDs.
- Planned enforcement steps include notifying the appointment of a state-level adjudicating officer under Section 46 of the IT Act, with select cases routed through the Centre’s Sahyog portal.
- The roadmap focuses on curbing harms such as children’s excessive use affecting education and sustained online abuse of women, with the state emphasizing a safer digital ecosystem over purely restrictive measures.