India, April 12 -- A parliamentary panel has observed that features like Community Notes, on social media platforms such as X, should be treated as a publishing activity, thus making the platform itself a publisher and not an intermediary, the head of the committee said in a social media post on Saturday.

According to Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament (MP) Nishikant Dubey, who heads the parliamentary standing committee on communications and IT, the ministry of electronics and IT (Meity) should either direct platforms to disable community notes on platforms or consider imposing a "publisher tax" - in what has been construed as obligations similar to Australia's News Media Bargaining Code, which requires platforms to compen...