Srinagar, Aug. 20 -- I was scrolling through X, formerly Twitter, when a tweet kept appearing over and over. Normally, I scroll past vulgar posts without a second thought. They flood timelines, designed to provoke, amuse, and shock.

But this one stopped me. The words "Recorded secretly" jumped out, and I felt a pang of unease.

The tweet narrated a story about a girl whose friend was secretly recorded by her boyfriend's friend. It described a night when four people went out: the boyfriend, the girl tweeting, the friend who got recorded, and the friend behind the camera.

According to the account, the two friends stepped aside, leaving the couple alone. The boyfriend's friend filmed them without consent.

At first, the girl tweeting claim...