Government’s online takedown orders surge to nearly 2 lakh in five months, Meta automates compliance
Data accessed by The Indian Express, and published on August 19, 2026, showed that the Union government issued nearly 1.95 lakh content blocking orders across Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in the five months from March to July this year. This averages out to one order roughly every 68 seconds, or close to 1,275 a day, a steep rise from the daily average of six orders logged between October 2024 and October 2025 across 19 platforms, figures the newspaper had earlier obtained through the Right t
