FB to carefully study new India guidelines

New Delhi: Under political pressure to sanitise its family of apps including WhatsApp in India, Facebook on Thursday cautiously welcomed the new social media regulations on intermediaries, saying the company will comb through the new rules to chart its further course of action.

A Facebook spokesperson said in a statement that they have always been clear as a company “that we welcome regulations that set guidelines for addressing today’s toughest challenges on the Internet”.

“Facebook is committed to people’s ability to freely and safely express themselves on our platforms. The details of rules like these matter and we will carefully study the new rules that were just published,” the company added.

Twitter, which is also facing intense political heat in India, declined to comment on the new guidelines.

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