An Indian court has ruled against Elon Musk’s X, dismissing a case challenging the government’s content moderation portal, Sahyog. This marks another setback for the social media platform in its fight against alleged arbitrary censorship in India.

• A single-judge bench of the Karnataka High Court dismissed X’s challenge against the Sahyog portal as “without merit.”
• X has 25 million users in India and had refused to integrate with Sahyog, which it called a “censorship portal.”
• The judge stated that social media could not be “left in a state of anarchic freedom” and that “regulation is a must,” also deeming Sahyog a “public good.”
• This is the second major legal loss for X in India regarding content takedown powers in just over two years.