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By Ritika Jain The Bombay High Court said except the court, nobody had the authority to pronounce what is true and false while questioning the Centre’s amendment to the Information and Technology (IT) Rules, 2023 which empowered its Fact-Checking Unit (PCU) to decide with “absolute authority” what is fake, false, or misleading. The high court further noted that the new IT Rules, 2023 was also silent on the boundaries of what is fake, false or misleading while questioning the need behind the revision to the rules. “This is completely binary... Even a court only says probably this may be the tru...
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By Ritika Jain Centre today gave an oral undertaking before the Bombay High Court that until July 5, it would not notify the fact-checking unit (FCU) as envisaged under the amended IT Rules, 2023. “I have instructions to make a statement that the FCU will not be notified till July 5”, Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh told the high court. A division bench of Justices GS Patel and Neela Gokhale further noted stand-up comic Kunal Kamra’s plea where he alleged that the IT Rules would deter free speech even without the FCU. The court however observed that this was not an immediate concern. “...
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By Ritika Jain The Centre told the Bombay High Court that it was guided by public interest and responsibility cast upon it to introduce the IT Rules, 2023 in response to concerns voiced by democratically elected representatives, stakeholders, judicial directions and feedback received from the general public. Growth of social media platforms and their influencing capabilities, international developments in social media regulations and the compelling need to deal with fake news and hate speech have been key reasons why IT Rules 2023 were introduced in supersession of their previous avatars, the ...
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By Ritika Jain Content that has been “fact checked” and identified as fake by the Centre’s fact-checking unit must be taken down, the draft amendment to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 said. This means that intermediaries like digital news portals and social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube which are governed by the IT Rules, 2021 will have to take down content that is "identified as fake or false by the fact check unit at the Press Information Bureau of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting or other agency...
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