'Will act against tech firms over deepfakes'

{GUIDELINES LIKELY IN 7-8 DAYS}

- Aditi Agrawal

The government will lay down rules on deepfakes by notifying amendments to the IT Rules in the next seven to eight days, minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in a press conference at the BJP office on Tuesday. He cited social media firms' lack of compliance with the advisories issued by the MeitY.

"We had also said that if we are not satisfied with the compliance [with the extant Rules and advisories], we will notify newly amended rules which are much more specific to the issue of misinformation and deepfakes in particular.... We are going to issue the new, amended IT Rules over the next 7-8 days," he said.