If the mandate is passed into law, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp will be required to identify users of their services using a verifiable method of identification.
In the midst of the prevailing digitization in hearings in the Indian courts, the Madras High Court has turned heads by conducting a hearing of a case through WhatsApp for the first time.
As the sequel of the outage, the trio of social media giants had relied on Twitter to update the users about the technical glitch and the progress made to fix it.