Facebook’s new rebrand logo Meta in front of a Twitter logo. Lawmakers from Washington to Brussels have contemplated action to hold social media companies like Facebook and Google accountable for the enormous content generated daily on their platforms, a view that gained momentum during the pandemic. — Reuters
An Indian parliamentary panel has recommended setting up a regulator to oversee Twitter and Facebook as they should be seen as publishers, according to people with knowledge with the matter, effectively reducing the legal protection from user content posted on their social media platforms.
The high-level committee made those recommendations as it reviewed the personal data protection bill introduced in 2019 that seeks to protect users’ privacy and enforce strict controls on how Western companies such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and Amazon.com Inc collect, process and store data.
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