{"id":1036284,"date":"2026-09-17T09:47:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036284"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:50:23","slug":"meta-is-service-provider-not-simple-intermediary-as-algorithms-amplify-content-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/meta-is-service-provider-not-simple-intermediary-as-algorithms-amplify-content-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta is \u2018service provider\u2019, not \u2018simple intermediary\u2019, as algorithms amplify content: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government is disinclined to treat Meta as simply an intermediary, government officials said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeta could no longer be viewed simply as an intermediary because its algorithms amplify content and determine its visibility,\u201d sources said. <\/p>\n<p>Sources said the government believes Meta &#8211; the owner of Facebook and Instagram &#8211; does not have legal immunity in this situation, although the interpretation of law and the final determination rest with the judiciary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian government is disinclined to treat Meta as simply an intermediary, government officials said on Wednesday. \u201cMeta could no longer be viewed simply as an intermediary because its algorithms amplify content and determine its visibility,\u201d sources said. Sources said the government believes Meta &#8211; the owner of Facebook and Instagram &#8211; does not have legal immunity in this situation, although the interpretation of law and the final determination rest with the judiciary.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036284","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=1036284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036295,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036284\/revisions\/1036295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}