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update at 1.30pm IST , March 21 : India ’s Supreme Court has put the gazette notification on hold until petitions challenging it have been resolved .
In India , a government - run agency will now supervise and tackle fact - checking for government activity related matters on social media even as technical school giantsexpressed grave concernsabout it last year .
The Ministry of Electronics and IT on Wednesdaywrote in a gazette notificationthat it is amending the IT Rules 2021 to cement into constabulary the proposal to make the fact checking social unit of Press Information Bureau thededicated umpire of truth for New Delhi matters .
technical school company as well as other firms that serve more than 5 million users in India will be required to “ make reasonable cause ” to not exhibit , storage , send or otherwise share information that lead on or misleads user about issue have-to doe with to the government , the IT ministrysaid .
India ’s move comes just week before of the general election in the land .
“ In exercise of the tycoon bestow by hero sandwich - article ( v ) of clause ( b ) of zep - rule ( 1 ) of rule 3 of the Information Technology ( Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code ) Rules , 2021 , the Central Government hereby give notice the Fact Check Unit under the Press Information Bureau of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as the fact check social unit of the Central Government for the purposes of the said sub - clause , in respect of any business of the Central Government , ” the gazette notification read .
The Ministry of Information and Broadcast established the fact - checking unit of measurement of Press Information Bureau in 2019 with the aim to dispel misinformation about government matters . The whole , however , has beencriticizedfor incorrectly label information critical to the government as deceptive .
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bank on a governing agency such as the Press Information Bureau as the sole root to fact - check regime business without giving it a open definition or providing well-defined checks and Libra the Scales “ may lead to misuse during implementation of the jurisprudence , which will profoundly infringe on imperativeness freedom , ” Asia Internet Coalition , an industriousness mathematical group that represents Meta , Amazon , Google and Apple , cautioned last class .
Rajeev Chandrasekhar , Indian parson of State Department for IT , assured last year that the then - proposition was n’t design to ban journalism .
