Social Media

Social media access in Karnataka is constrained by an age cutoff, barring users below 16. Enforcement and implementation parameters are pending publication in policy documents.

Children under 16 will face an age-based barrier to opening or using social media accounts in Indonesia. This limits under-16 account access as a default condition rather than an unrestricted service.

A £14.5 million enforcement penalty and a regulatory determination constrain Reddit's handling of children’s personal data. Regulators also flagged the company's post‑July 2025 age‑verification approach for relying on users to self‑declare ages.

Internet service providers have been directed to block access to the named platforms under the Information Technology Rules 2021 and laws against obscenity, preventing user access on networks that implement the direction.

The action removes access to a widely used international private messaging service for users in Russia and channels communications toward a domestically promoted, state-backed platform, narrowing independent messaging options.

Social media platforms operating in India now face a much shorter compliance window for government takedown orders and new, enforceable requirements to permanently mark AI-generated content. The change increases operational and legal exposure tied to content moderation, labeling, and prohibited synthetic-content categories.

The conditional lift restricts Grok’s operation to compliance with specified service-improvement and misuse-prevention measures and keeps the ban subject to reinstatement upon discovery of further violations.

The arrangement installs majority U.S. ownership and board control while preserving ByteDance’s 19.9% stake and some operational influence, leaving unresolved the statutory requirement to end any 'operational relationship' between ByteDance and TikTok US.

The transaction creates a legally fixed ownership and control arrangement for TikTok's U.S. operations that places majority ownership with an American investor consortium and caps ByteDance's stake at 19.9%.

Creates an age-based access restriction that bars under-16s from creating social media accounts and places compliance obligations on platforms operating in Malaysia.

Registration and Vuukle login are required to post comments, and comments must be in English, in full sentences, and non-abusive, creating access and conduct constraints on who can post and how comments are formatted.

C.N. Vijayakumari, Head of the Sanskrit department at Kerala University, has been booked under the SC/ST Act following allegations from PhD scholar Vipin Vijayan. The scholar claims she made derogatory comments and refused to sign his thesis, citing political bias. The incident has prompted an inquiry ordered by the Higher Education Minister, highlighting concerns over caste discrimination in academia.