Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, Telegram, Signal and LinkedIn are among the major social media intermediaries operating in India. As per the new IT Rules, any social media intermediary with more than 5 million active users in India would be considered a ‘significant social media intermediary’. Clause (v) of the new IT Rules defines the threshold for number of users, beyond which a social media intermediary will be considered ‘significant’. Clause (w) talks about the definition of a social media intermediary. “The lens is not on whether Apple is a significant social media intermediary, but whether, if asked by the government to track the first originator of a message, they will do so or not.

Source: Indian Express July 14, 2021 22:43 UTC