NEW DELHI: India is discussing age-based restrictions with social media companies, following Australia’s move to ban under-16s from popular platforms, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Tuesday. “Right now we are in a conversation regarding deepfakes, regarding age-based restrictions with the various social media platforms and... what is the right way to go about this,” Vaishnaw told reporters at the AI Impact Summit.

The comments come after Australia in December became the first to ban users under the age of 16 from accessing major social media platforms.

NEW DELHI: India is discussing age-based restrictions with social media companies, following Australia’s move to ban under-16s from popular platforms, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw…