{"id":860523,"date":"2025-07-06T19:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/reuters-and-other-news-accounts-restored-on-x-in-india-what-really-happened\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T19:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:11:49","slug":"reuters-and-other-news-accounts-restored-on-x-in-india-what-really-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/06\/reuters-and-other-news-accounts-restored-on-x-in-india-what-really-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters and other news accounts restored on X in India\u2014What really happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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International news agency Reuters’ X account was withheld in India for a few hours but restored later on Sunday after the government intervened to say it had not sought the blocking of the handle.<\/p>\n

Reuters’ X account was blocked from being accessed in India overnight, leading to speculations.<\/p>\n

The government asked the Elon Musk-owned platform for an explanation and said that it had not sought such a move. X restored access to the account shortly after.<\/p>\n

The Reuters account remain blocked for nearly 24 hours, from Saturday evening to Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

The notice displayed on X till Sunday evening showed that Reuters’ X account had been withheld in India “in response to a legal demand”.<\/p>\n

However, a government spokesperson said no legal requirement was made to withhold the account.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, sources said a demand for blocking the account alongside several hundreds of other accounts was made during Operation Sindoor in May. While many of them were blocked, the Reuters handle wasn’t.<\/p>\n

X seems to have now acted on that request and blocked Reuters’ handle in India. And since the issue isn’t relevant now, the government has asked X to explain the blocking and lift the embargo, they said.<\/p>\n

The official accounts of Chinese media organisation Global Times and Turkish media house TRT World on X were also blocked again citing a legal demand, which the government said was not required now.<\/p>\n

“There is no requirement from the government of India to withhold the Global Times News\/trtworld handle. We are continuously working with X to resolve the problem,” the spokesperson had said.<\/p>\n

On random check, it was found that Chinese Xinhua News and some other media outlets, that were also blocked during Operation Sindoor, continued to be accessible.<\/p>\n

“An order was issued on May 7 (during Operation Sindoor) but it was not enforced. X seems to have enforced that order now which is a mistake on their part. Government has reached out to X for resolving it at the earliest,” an official source said.<\/p>\n

An e-mail sent to Reuters seeking comments did not elicit a response.<\/p>\n

While affiliated X handles such as Reuters Tech News, Reuters Fact Check, Reuters Asia, and Reuters China were accessible in India, both official X accounts of the global news agency as well as Reuters World handles were inaccessible earlier.<\/p>\n

X users attempting to access the main account could see a message that read: “Account withheld. @ Reuters has been withheld in IN in response to a legal demand.”<\/p>\n

On its help centre page, X explains such messages “about country withheld content” means X was compelled to withhold the entire account specified or posted in response to a valid legal demand, such as a court order or local laws.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Margarett Pecora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International news agency Reuters’ X account was withheld in India for a few hours but restored later on Sunday after the government intervened to say it had not sought the blocking of the handle. Reuters’ X account was blocked from being accessed in India overnight, leading to speculations. The government asked the Elon Musk-owned platform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":860524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23795,33235],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-860523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-accounts","8":"category-reuters"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}