Indian officials raised questions over Meta’s safe-harbor protection amid scrutiny of a wrongly restricted Modi post and alleged child-abuse material on its platforms.

Messaging app was restored the same day after it removed the content and banned the user who posted it.

AI scaled fast in 2025 but not in the ways regulators or institutions expected, with failures across chatbots, newsrooms, courts, policing and deepfake-driven fraud.

The information technology minister told Parliament that fake news and AI-generated deepfakes are a “serious threat” and said draft rules will mandate faster takedowns and clear labelling of synthetic media.