In India, the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026 (“IT Rules Amendment 2026”), issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, require us to publish the below information.

When you use X, you are responsible for the content you create, including any synthetically generated information. This section sets out requirements governing your use of the Services, in light of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026 and action X may take, in case of non-compliance. This section is to be read along with the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, the X Rules and other applicable policies governing your use of the Services.

It is your responsibility to comply with all applicable laws, rules, policies, and regulations that are applicable to you or your Content. In case of non-compliance, we may suspend or terminate your access or usage rights and/or remove violative content. The IT Rules Amendment 2026 requires us to inform you that, if your content violates the law, you may also be subject to penalties or punishments under applicable law. Where required by law, including under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 or the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, we may report the offence to the appropriate authority.

What is ‘synthetically generated information’ (SGI)

Under the IT Rules Amendment 2026, SGI means “audio, visual or audio-visual information which is artificially or algorithmically created, generated, modified or altered using a computer resource, in a manner that such information appears to be real, authentic or true and depicts or portrays any individual or event in a manner that is, or is likely to be perceived as indistinguishable from a natural person or real-world event.” The IT Rules Amendment 2026 requires us to inform you that, in addition to the above, if you post SGI that “violates any law for the time being in force,” Indian law may require X to disclose your information to the complainant. 

Your responsibilities for SGI 

Declaration: Before posting any content on X, you must declare whether it is “synthetically generated information". By using X, you confirm that you will not post SGI without making this declaration. You will prominently label it as such in a way “that is easily noticeable and adequately perceivable,” and in the case of synthetically generated “audio content,” include a “prominently prefixed audio disclosure.” 

No tampering: You must not attempt to remove, modify, suppress, or tamper with any labels, metadata or other technical provenance identifiers applied to SGI.

Prohibited SGI: The IT Rules Amendment 2026 prohibits the use of computer resources to create, generate, modify, alter, publish, transmit, share, or disseminate any unlawful SGI. Unlawful SGI includes content that:

(a) Contains child sexual exploitative and abuse material or non-consensual intimate imagery;

(b) Is obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, vulgar, indecent, sexually explicit, or invasive of another person’s privacy including bodily privacy;

(c) Creates any false document or false electronic record;

(d) Relates to the preparation, development, or procurement of explosives, arms, or ammunition;

(e) Falsely depicts or portrays any natural person by misrepresenting their identity, voice, conduct, actions, or statements;

(f) Falsey depicts or portrays any real world event by misrepresenting that said event occurred, with or without the involvment of any natural person; or

(g) Violates any other law in force, such as the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, and the Explosive Substances Act, 1908.

The IT Rules Amendment 2026 requires us to inform you that instructing X’s systems to generate unlawful SGI, or posting unlawful SGI, may attract civil and/or criminal penalties under the applicable laws, such as the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, the Representation of the People Act, 1951, the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986, the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013, and the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956. Further, failing to declare SGI you upload or publish on X, or creating and/or sharing unlawful SGI may also result in enforcement actions required under the IT Rules Amendment 2026 such as removal of content and/or suspension of your account, disclosure of your information and/or mandatory reporting of the offence to a competent authority.

Our measures for transparency and compliance

X automatically applies watermarks to all images generated or edited by Grok and all Grok-generated videos. This supports prominent labelling of lawful SGI and helps prevent unlawful synthetic content. 

What is not SGI

Under the IT Rules Amendment 2026, SGI does not include “routine or good faith actions” or content that “arises from: 

(a) routine or good-faith editing, formatting, enhancement, technical correction, colour adjustment, noise reduction, transcription, or compression that does not materially alter, distort, or misrepresent the substance, context, or meaning of the underlying audio, visual or audio-visual information; or 

(b) the routine or good-faith creation, preparation, formatting, presentation or design of documents, presentations, portable document format (PDF) files, educational or training materials, research outputs, including the use of illustrative, hypothetical, draft, template-based or conceptual content, where such creation or presentation does not result in the creation or generation of any false document or false electronic record; or 

(c) the use of computer resources solely for improving accessibility, clarity, quality, translation, description, searchability, or discoverability, without generating, altering, or manipulating any material part of the underlying audio, visual or audio-visual information."

We’re introducing a profile setting which allows people in India to mark their X account as having a confirmed phone number. Activating this setting displays a Confirmed phone number mark  in the profile. Only logged-in X customers in India can see this mark, and activating the mark reveals to them that you're also in India.

Please note that the Confirmed phone number mark  isn’t the same as a verified blue checkmark, and doesn’t give people who activate the phone number mark a verified blue checkmark . For information about requirements related to a verified blue checkmark, read How to get verified on X.

More about phone numbers on X:

How to report a violation through our Help Center 

Here is an overview on how to report potential violations of the X Rules and Terms of Service.

Submitting requests through our support forms will ensure that they are routed to the appropriate team and processed expeditiously. More information is available in the Help Center.
 

Grievance Officer contact information for users in India 

X Corp.
865 FM 1209, Building 2
Bastrop, TX 78602
United States

Resident Grievance Officer
Vinay Prakash

The Resident Grievance Officer cannot be contacted by email, and X Corp. does not accept service of any legal process by email. 

To contact the Resident Grievance Officer, to submit a grievance, or to serve a summons or notice in a civil proceeding for the attention of X Corp., use the Report to Grievance Officer Form.

All law enforcement and government requests must be submitted at legalrequests.x.com.

X Corp. can also be contacted in India at the following address:
8th Floor, The Estate,
121 Dickenson Road,
Bangalore 560 042

India Transparency Report

Pursuant to Rule 4(1)(d) of India’s Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, X publishes a monthly report regarding our processing of reports from users in India. For the latest report, click here.

Publishers of news and current affairs

If you are a publisher of news and current affairs content under the Information Technology (Intermediary Liability and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, as per Rule 5, X is required to inform you that you need to provide details of your X accounts to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India under Rule 18 of the above rules.