{"id":944362,"date":"2025-07-07T11:31:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944362"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:01:37","slug":"govt-says-no-legal-requirement-to-block-reuters-x-account-in-india-working-to-resolve-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/govt-says-no-legal-requirement-to-block-reuters-x-account-in-india-working-to-resolve-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt says no legal requirement to block Reuters&#8217; X account in India, working to resolve issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official X (formerly Twitter) account of international news agency Reuters has been blocked in India, reportedly \u201cin response to a legal demand\u201d, as per notice displayed by the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>However, a spokesperson for the government told PTI that there is no legal requirement made by it Centre to withhold the account, and it is working with X to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official X (formerly Twitter) account of international news agency Reuters has been blocked in India, reportedly \u201cin response to a legal demand\u201d, as per notice displayed by the social media platform. However, a spokesperson for the government told PTI that there is no legal requirement made by it Centre to withhold the account, and it is working with X to resolve the issue.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944362","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=944362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}