Are social media companies ‘intermediaries’? One’s syllepsis is another’s dilemma

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In a recent development, the Hon’ble Union MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar, under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“Hon’ble MoS”), in an interview with one of the leading news publisher, had indicated the need for ‘considering a separate legislation for social media companies’ and also recommended that ‘social media companies must be accountable for content on platforms’.