{"id":1002416,"date":"2026-04-10T12:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002416"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:18:18","slug":"government-seeks-x-community-notes-oversight-with-it-rules-tweaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/government-seeks-x-community-notes-oversight-with-it-rules-tweaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Government seeks X Community Notes oversight with IT Rules tweaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed amendments to India\u2019s Information Technology Rules, 2021, would formally bring Community Notes \u2014 the user-generated fact-checking tool on X \u2014 under the ministry of information and broadcasting\u2019s regulatory remit when they touch news and current affairs, enabling the government to seek removal of content that corrects official claims, an official aware of the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on condition of anonymity, a ministry of electronics and IT (Meity) official said that when a community note that starts looking like it\u2019s dealing with news, politics or public policy, it could come under scrutiny under the expanded framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed amendments to India\u2019s Information Technology Rules, 2021, would formally bring Community Notes \u2014 the user-generated fact-checking tool on X \u2014 under the ministry of information and broadcasting\u2019s regulatory remit when they touch news and current affairs, enabling the government to seek removal of content that corrects official claims, an official aware of the matter said. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a ministry of electronics and IT (Meity) official said that when a community note that starts looking like it\u2019s dealing with news, politics or public policy, it could come under scrutiny under the expanded framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}