India's 3-Hour Deepfake Rule Exposes Global Governance Gap

What India's amendment establishes institutionally is a liability architecture built on an assumption the technology does not yet support. The rule mandates removal within three hours of notice — but notice itself presupposes detection, and create pressure to act before verification is complete. The practical result is that platforms operating in India's market of nearly one billion active internet users must choose between over-removal that catches legitimate speech and under-removal that triggers enforcement. Neither outcome is what the rule's drafters stated as the…