Best Media Info: INS said that this would have the effect of the Government or its distinguished agency enjoying absolute power to determine what is fake or not, in respect to its own work, and order it to be taken do| Digital News
The Indian Newspaper Society (INS), the highest body of newspapers in India, on Thursday, urged the government to withdraw the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023 as it impinges upon principles of natural justice and the guarantee of freedom of speech.
As per the newly notified rules, the ministry will enjoy the power to constitute a fact-checking unit, which will have sweeping powers to determine what is 'fake or false or misleading', with respect to 'any business of the Central government'.
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