The government emphasized that it is equipped with resources to verify fake news which is not available to the common man and it is crucial to ensure that authentic information is disseminated to the public.
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'.
Among the Centre’s IT rule revisions, a provision for online fact regulation glares out. It must be kept open to scrutiny while how it gels with our right to free speech needs a check
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Last June, the ministry had issued an advisory asking newspapers, private TV channels and digital news publishers to refrain from publishing advertisements of online betting platforms