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Information Technology intermediary rules are notified

On 25 February 2021 the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, imposing traceability, grievance, and takedown duties on significant social-media intermediaries. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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On 25 February 2021 the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, imposing traceability, grievance, and takedown duties on significant social-media intermediaries.

Context

MeitY implements. Platforms challenged parts in court. Modi is the prime minister of the government that notified. He did not sit as every grievance officer. Later 2023 amendments are neighbouring later instruments.

Later 2023 amendments and court stays are neighbouring later instruments.

The Prime Minister of India is head of the Union Council of Ministers. Parliament writes statutes; the President assents; states and Union ministries implement; the Supreme Court can strike a scheme down. A prime minister can announce demonetisation, drive a bill, and take an oath. He does not write a UNFCCC depositary record, an ISRO telemetry file, or a Supreme Court judgment by himself.

Why it matters

The path is digital rights: a completed traceability-and-takedown code is a dated speech-and-platform control instrument.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.65 · verified

    His government notified the rules. MeitY administers. Platforms implement or challenge.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — India issues new rules for social media, streaming and digital newsReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.PIB — Government notifies IT intermediary rules, 25 February 2021Press Information Bureau of India · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Press Information Bureau of India carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: a 25 February 2021 notification of IT intermediary and digital-media rules.

Not established: a unique later takedown census from notification day, or that every later court stay unwrote the gazette.

MeitY administers. Platforms implement or challenge.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Information Technology intermediary rules are notified, not a later speech about Information Technology intermediary rules are notified.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His government notified the rules. MeitY administers. Platforms implement or challenge. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, the President, the Reserve Bank, state governments, the Election Commission, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A Supreme Court striking-down is not a criminal conviction. A scheme notification is not a unique rupee coefficient. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorNarendra Modi
  2. contributed toFactInformation Technology intermediary rules are notified
  3. weakensDrivers (2)Personal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Information Technology intermediary rules are notified. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/in-it-intermediary-rules-2021

https://factrail.ai/facts/in-it-intermediary-rules-2021

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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