Reuters’ primary news and world accounts on X were inaccessible to users in India from the evening of 5 July until late on 6 July. The platform displayed a notice saying the handles had been “withheld in India in response to a legal demand.” Accounts of Turkey’s TRT World and China’s Global Times were also briefly blocked. New Delhi quickly said it had issued no such directive, calling the episode a technical error and asking X to restore the feeds, which were reinstated after roughly 24 hours. The dispute escalated on 8 July when X’s Global Government Affairs team said the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had, on 3 July, ordered the platform to block 2,355 accounts—including @Reuters and @ReutersWorld—under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act. X said the ministry demanded compliance within one hour, warned of criminal liability for non-compliance, and later requested that the Reuters accounts be unblocked following public criticism. The company added it was “deeply concerned about ongoing press censorship in India” and was exploring legal options. MeitY reiterated that it issued “no fresh blocking order on 3 July” and accused X of ‘exploiting technicalities’ by taking 21 hours to lift the bans. The episode underscores a long-running clash between the social-media platform and the Indian government over takedown requests, with X already challenging earlier blocking orders in the Karnataka High Court. For now, Reuters’ accounts remain live in India, but the conflicting narratives have renewed scrutiny of India’s content-regulation powers and the limits of platform compliance.