Instagram and X have an impossible deepfake detection deadline

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India’s new deepfake detection mandate

India announced on Tuesday that social‑media platforms must remove illegal AI‑generated material much faster and clearly label all synthetic content. The rules go into effect on February 20.

The country’s 1 billion internet users skew young, making India a critical growth market for social platforms. Consequently, the new obligations place significant pressure on tech companies, which have long claimed they wanted to develop deep‑fake detection and labeling solutions on their own. Now they have only a few days before they are legally required to implement them.

Read the full story at The Verge.