The Delhi High Court has protected the personality rights of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and directed X to take down a AI-generated deepfake video purportedly showing him praising Pakistan’s diplomacy.

Justice Mini Pushkarna, in an interim order passed on Tharoor’s lawsuit, also restrained the misappropriation of the Thiruvananthapuram MP’s name, image, distinct voice, “signature oratorical cadence and manner of speaking”, “highly refined vocabulary” and other facets of his persona to create and publish deepfakes, voice-cloned audio, or morphed videos for any commercial, political, or malicious purpose across any medium.