The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will amend social media takedown rules to add more “accountability” to officers sending notices to social media companies over content on their platforms, officials said on Wednesday (October 22, 2025). The new safeguards will be introduced by way of an amendment to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 within this week itself, senior officials briefing the press said.

“The accountability of the government increases with this change,” IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told presspersons. As a part of these new rules, the government “will be giving a reasoned intimation whenever any such order is passed, and orders will be passed at a fairly senior level, Joint Secretary

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