Meta to report child safety cases directly to Indian cybercrime authorities

Self-policing failed once paid Instagram ads were found promoting access to child sexual abuse material, so a company reporting such cases directly to India's cybercrime portal is accountability that should have existed all along, not a favor extended at its discretion. The child-rights commission's inquiry and the push to get other platforms to identify and remove harmful content confirm, as the Telegraph put it, that "the government has stepped up scrutiny of social media platforms over harmful and illegal online content, including child sexual abuse material and deepfakes" — scrutiny that must hold every platform to the same standard, not just one.