India, July 8 -- Update | July 8, 7:54 PM

Hours after X alleged the Indian government's interference in blocking and unblocking accounts on the microblogging platform, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has refuted the platform's claims. In a statement, the MeitY said it had no intention to block prominent news channels like Reuters and ReutersWorld. On the contrary, MeitY said that it wrote to X to unblock them

"The Government continuously engaged and vigorously pursued 'X' from the late night of 5th July 2025. X has unnecessarily exploited technicalities involved around the process and didn't unblock the URLs. However, after a lot of follow up on hourly basis, X has finally unblocked Reuters and other URLs ...