India's 3-Hour Deepfake Takedown Rule Turns Platforms Into Regulators

The compliance burden created by India's amendment is structural, not procedural. , which means platforms must simultaneously detect, classify, and remove content at a speed that outpaces current automated moderation pipelines. No major platform has publicly demonstrated a deepfake detection system accurate enough at scale to meet a three-hour window without generating false positives at a rate that would itself constitute a censorship problem. The law was written to the speed of a viral crisis — platforms are now…