{"id":992777,"date":"2026-02-17T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992777"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:39:42","slug":"indias-tougher-ai-social-media-rules-spark-censorship-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/indias-tougher-ai-social-media-rules-spark-censorship-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s tougher AI social media rules spark censorship fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has tightened rules governing the use of artificial intelligence on social media to combat a flood of disinformation, but also prompting warnings of censorship and an erosion of digital freedoms. <\/p>\n<p>The new regulations are set to take effect on February 20 &#8212; the final day of an international AI summit in New Delhi featuring leading global tech figures &#8212; and will sharply reduce the time platforms have to remove content deemed problematic. <\/p>\n<p>With more than a billion internet users, India is grappling with AI-generated disinformation swamping social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has tightened rules governing the use of artificial intelligence on social media to combat a flood of disinformation, but also prompting warnings of censorship and an erosion of digital freedoms. The new regulations are set to take effect on February 20 &#8212; the final day of an international AI summit in New Delhi featuring leading global tech figures &#8212; and will sharply reduce the time platforms have to remove content deemed problematic. With more than a billion internet users, India is grappling with AI-generated disinformation swamping social media.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992777","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=992777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}