As per the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, any intermediary who primarily or solely enables online interaction between two or more users and allows them to create, upload, share, disseminate, modify or access information using its services and has more than 50 lakh registered users is classified as a ‘significant social media intermediary’. Thus, all popular social networking platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter would be required to observe these additional requirements, which are known as