“…@XCorpIndia’s job is community note publishing, not that of an intermediary, so either social media platforms should shut down their community notes or, as per Australia’s law, they will have to pay the publishers’ tax,” read BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s English-translated post on X. He posted this on April 10, saying the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology had “unanimously” made the same recommendation to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the government.
हमारी कमिटि यानि संसद की स्थायी समिति संचार और सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी ने सर्वसम्मति से @GoI_MeitY भारत सरकार को यह कहा है कि @XCorpIndia के उपर कम्यूनिटी नोट पब्लिशिंग का काम है नाकि मध्यस्थ / intermediary का,या तो social media platforms अपने कम्यूनिटी नोट को बंद करे,अन्यथा… pic.twitter.com/8UYcDRGvg8
— Dr Nishikant Dubey (@nishikant_dubey) April 10, 2026
“Why all the fuss about Community Notes, bro? @XCorpIndia keeps printing notes and doesn’t pay any tax to the Indian government—what kind of justice is this?” he also said while claiming that X pays “Rs 7,000 crore in tax to the Australian government every year”. “Like Australian law, they should get a publisher’s licence in India and keep paying Rs 25,000 crore in tax to the Indian government every year; otherwise, shut down Community Notes,” he added.
Fact-checking Nishikant Dubey: No reference to X and Community Notes
What is the screenshot shared by Dubey? The screenshot shared by Dubey under the post on April 10, where he specified the committee’s alleged submission stating X’s community notes should attract publishers’ tax, is not related to any official Indian government document. It is a screenshot from Justice Intermediary’s website, titled “Intermediaries Around the World Map: Australia.”
Justice Intermediary’s “Intermediaries Around the World Map” project lets users click on individual countries to read the short summaries of how each country defines intermediaries.
Australia doesn’t consider community notes as publishers: “Australia’s Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) Act (2021) operates in an entirely distinct field: it requires designated digital platforms to negotiate commercial arrangements with registered Australian news businesses for the right to make news content available through feeds and search results. No Australian statute treats a ‘Community Notes’-style feature as converting a platform into a ‘publisher’ liable to any levy or tax,” noted the Internet Freedom Foundation in a statement to Dubey’s post.
— Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) (@internetfreedom) April 11, 2026Statement by the Internet Freedom Foundation : On remarks by Shri Nishikant Dubey regarding Community Notes on X and the Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology
In reference to the post published on X by Shri Nishikant Dubey, Hon'ble Chairperson, Standing… https://t.co/iN7bzhEj7t
X is not the author of community notes: “On X’s own published documentation, community notes are collaboratively authored by users and become publicly visible only where contributors holding diverse prior viewpoints rate a note as helpful through an open-source, algorithmically mediated bridging-based ranking system. The notes thus remain, on X’s own account, user-generated material that the platform hosts and ranks through system design. That is categorically distinct from X itself, authoring each note in the manner of a publisher in the ordinary legal sense,” said IFF.
“X doesn’t write, rate or moderate notes (unless they break X’s Rules),” reads its guide to community notes, which specifies how community notes work:
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