New Delhi, April 11 -- A parliamentary panel has suggested that features like "community notes" on X could be treated as a publishing activity, according to committee chairperson and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Nishikant Dubey, potentially redefining the platform's role from an intermediary to a publisher.

Community notes is an entirely user-generated feature that allows users to add context under a misleading post.

The parliamentary standing committee on communications and information technology has suggested that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) direct platforms to disable "community notes" or consider imposing a "publisher tax", which experts see it as obligations similar to Australia's News Me...