The Centre has warned online platforms, primarily social media firms, of legal consequences should they fail to take action against obscene, vulgar, pornographic, paedophilic, and other forms of unlawful content. In an advisory dated December 29, 2025, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) directed social media firms to immediately review their compliance frameworks. 

The Ministry emphasised that platforms must act against unlawful content or face prosecution under the law of the land.

"Intermediaries, including social media intermediaries, are reminded that they are statutorily obligated under Section 79 of the IT Act... to observe, due diligence as a condition for availing exemption from liability in respect of third-party information uploaded, published, hosted, shared or transmitted on or through their platforms," the advisory stated.