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How are we checking child porn, Rajya Sabha panel asks Google and Twitter

The committee had met Facebook, TikTok on December 20 to hear their thoughts on the subject

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TikTok was asked about misuse of their platform to spread pornographic content. Representative

Neha Alawadhi New Delhi
An ad hoc committee of the Rajya Sabha met executives from online social media platforms Google, Twitter and ShareChat, as also the HERD Foundation, on the “alarming issue of pornography on social media and its effect on children and society as a whole”. 

According to a person present, the MPs asked the companies about ways to curb child pornography on their respective platforms. The meeting was attended by Rahul Jain, the India manager for public policy at Google; Twitter India policy head Mahima Kaul; Berges Malu, head of public policy and policy communications at Indian language content platform ShareChat; and