REGULATING SYNTHETIC MEDIA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INTERMEDIARY OBLIGATIONS IN INDIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
Published on: 26th July 2026 Authored by: Harsh Nandan Sahay NUJS, Kolkata Abstract In February 2026, India notified groundbreaking amendments to its intermediary guidelines, establishing a statutory definition for “synthetically generated information” (SGI) and creating a mandatory pre-publication verification duty for Significant Social Media Intermediaries (SSMIs).[1] This marked a paradigm shift from the reactive safe […]





