Meta restricts access to two AI-generated videos by Congress depicting PM Modi

Meta has restricted access in India to two videos posted by the Congress on Instagram and Facebook after receiving takedown notices from the Delhi Police, according to a disclosure made by the US-based social media conglomerate to the Lumen Database, a Harvard University project.

The database analyses legal complaints and content removal requests.

The videos were generated through artificial intelligence and featured Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Adani Group chief Gautam Adani, reported the Hindustan Times.

In its disclosure, Meta stated that it received the takedown notices on December 18.

The police had invoked Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act. This provision states that online intermediaries, such as social media platforms, can lose their safe harbour status if they fail to remove or disable access to content that is used to commit an “unlawful act” despite being told to do so by government authorities.

Removing this status would mean that the platforms would be liable for the content in question.

The notices also mentioned rule 3(1)(d) of IT Rules, which requires social media platforms to remove content within 36 hours of receiving a court order or a government notification.

They said that the videos violated Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Sections 336(4) and 340(2), and section 66C of the IT Act.

While BNS section 336(4) deals with punishment for forgery, section 340(2)...

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