India, July 18 -- Solicitor general Tushar Mehta on Friday underlined the dangers of anonymous content online and told the Karnataka high court that his office created a fictional "Supreme Court of Karnataka" account on X. He said X verified it with the top court's photograph and an official-looking handle, underscoring how easily misinformation can be disseminated, even as X suspended the account during the hearing of its plea against the Sahyog portal.

"This is how easily an account can be created in the name of a constitutional body," Mehta told Justice M Nagaprasanna, hearing X Corp's plea against the centralised system for content takedown requests.

X Corp's counsel, senior advocate KG Raghavan, questioned the propriety of the gove...