{"id":1015435,"date":"2026-06-18T10:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015435"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:43:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:13:47","slug":"telegram-is-a-bad-faith-actor-says-govt-as-neet-re-exam-curbs-run-till-june-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/telegram-is-a-bad-faith-actor-says-govt-as-neet-re-exam-curbs-run-till-june-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram is a \u2018bad-faith actor\u2019, says Govt as NEET re-exam curbs run till June 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid criticism over the Centre\u2019s decision to temporarily restrict access to Telegram during the NEET-UG re-examination period, senior government officials have defended the move. They argued that it was aimed at preventing the spread of misinformation and curbing online extortion targeting students. <\/p>\n<p>Officials alleged that Telegram is a \u201cbad-faith actor\u201d which failed to respond to 2,460 legal requests globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid criticism over the Centre\u2019s decision to temporarily restrict access to Telegram during the NEET-UG re-examination period, senior government officials have defended the move. They argued that it was aimed at preventing the spread of misinformation and curbing online extortion targeting students. Officials alleged that Telegram is a \u201cbad-faith actor\u201d which failed to respond to 2,460 legal requests globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015435","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015449,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015435\/revisions\/1015449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}