Who Will Fact Check Centre’s Fact Checker?: Bombay High Court
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...