In a statement, UNICEF said it was increasingly concerned by reports showing a surge in AI-generated sexualised images, including cases where real photographs of children are manipulated and sexualised through deepfake technology.
In its letter to X's Chief Compliance Officer for India operations, MeitY directed the platform to strictly refrain from allowing content that is "obscene, pornographic, vulgar, indecent, sexually explicit, paedophilic, or otherwise prohibited under any law for the time being in force."