The Indian government is examining whether Meta’s recommendation system, which decides what content to show to specific users, still qualifies the platform for “intermediary” status under the Information Technology Act. The review focuses on whether actively determining user-specific feeds fits the legal concept of an intermediary.
Business Line frames the issue around how the platform’s role changes when it does more than merely transmit information and instead curates or ranks content for different users. The Hindu similarly reports that the government is looking into the fit between recommendation-based, user-targeted decision-making and the intermediary protections or scope under the law.
While both outlets describe the same core question, they emphasize it through slightly different phrasing: one highlights the intermediary classification in relation to the platform’s active decision-making, while the other focuses on the fact of the government’s ongoing examination. Neither source indicates a final legal conclusion or the specific legal threshold the government will apply, but both point to the same regulatory review over Meta’s “what-to-show-to-whom” mechanism.
