Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday said the government will come up with new regulations soon to tackle deepfakes.

Vaishnaw, who met social media platforms on the deepfake issue on Thursday, said that it has emerged as a new threat to democracy. “We will have our next meeting in the first week of December…that will be on follow-up action on today’s decisions, and also on what should be included in the draft regulation,” Vaishnaw said.

“Companies have agreed on the need for clear actionable work in areas such as detection, prevention, strengthening of reporting mechanism, and raising user awareness,” he further said.

“We will start drafting regulation today itself, and within a short time we will have a new set of regulations for deepfakes … this could be in the form of amending existing framework or bringing new rules, or new law,” the IT Minister added.

“Social media companies acknowledged that the problem of deepfakes is not restricted to India. But is a global issue. They agreed that there needs to be ways to tackle this problem,” Vaishnaw further said.