{"id":944909,"date":"2025-07-09T09:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944909"},"modified":"2025-07-09T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:38:07","slug":"got-orders-to-block-news-handles-says-x-govt-refutes-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/09\/got-orders-to-block-news-handles-says-x-govt-refutes-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Got orders to block news handles, says X; govt refutes claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh controversy erupted between the government and social media platform X over the temporary blocking of prominent international news accounts, including Reuters and ReutersWorld, with both sides presenting conflicting accounts of the events. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, X claimed it received a government order on July 3, 2025, under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, directing the platform to block 2,355 accounts in India. It alleged that the order included global news organisations and was issued with a stern warning of criminal liability for non-compliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh controversy erupted between the government and social media platform X over the temporary blocking of prominent international news accounts, including Reuters and ReutersWorld, with both sides presenting conflicting accounts of the events. In a statement, X claimed it received a government order on July 3, 2025, under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, directing the platform to block 2,355 accounts in India. It alleged that the order included global news organisations and was issued with a stern warning of criminal liability for non-compliance.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944909","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=944909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}