You can now ask people who want to join your X community to answer that question, and moderators can use your response to decide if you should be let in. (I’m not a huge fan of X’s “gatekeeping allowed” marketing language announcing the feature, though.)
Nieman Reports has the story and more details about the memo.
NPR left Twitter (now X) in April after the platform labeled NPR as “US state-affiliated media.” (X got rid of those labels entirely shortly after, apparently at the suggestion of Elon Musk’s biographer, Walter Isaacson.)
Reuters reports that X (fka Twitter), YouTube, and Telegram were sent notices by India’s federal Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) requesting prompt and permanent removal of any child sexual abuse material.
“If they do not act swiftly, their safe harbour under section 79 of the IT Act would be withdrawn and consequences under the Indian law will follow,” India’s junior minister for Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, was quoted as saying in the statement.
None of the platforms have been able to entirely block that material, but some may have more trouble with the request than others.
