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You Regulate the Platform That Built the Algorithm That Sold the Ad

This is not simply a story about a moderation failure - ads that should have been screened were not. It is a live test of a much larger ethical and legal question with consequences for how every algorithm-driven platform is regulated in India: if a company's AI actively curates, targets and monetises content rather than merely hosting it, does that activity itself dissolve the "passive intermediary" status the law was built…