'Un'-social media? How to regulate a technological challenge to democracy

All stakeholders need to come together to find a regulatory solution and prevent social media from turning unsocial

On March 20, 2019, Press Information Bureau released a press notification titled ‘Social Media Platforms present “Voluntary Code of Ethics for the 2019 General Election” to Election Commission of India”.

“The Code of Ethics has been developed as a follow-up to yesterday’s meeting with IAMAI and representatives of social media platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Google, ShareChat and TikTok, etc,” said the notification.

On March 18, 2019, Dhruv Rathee, a famous Indian YouTube star said that his popular Facebook page (544,000 likes) had been banned for 30 days by the social media platform. According