The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has proposed a new digital media policy aimed at regulating “anti-national, indecent, or hurtful” content on social media. The draft policy also seeks to promote government schemes by offering payments of up to Rs 8 lakh per month to content creators.
The Digital Media Policy 2024, drafted by the state’s information department and yet to be approved by the state cabinet, empowers the state information director to initiate action against “any such content, video tweet, post, reel” that is “anti-national, anti-social, indecent or hurts the sentiments of various sections of the society” and if “the content is based on wrong facts or presents government schemes in a wrong manner or with wrong intention”.
