The Bombay High Court on Friday struck down the amended Information Technology Rules, 2023, which empowered the Centre to set up a fact-check unit (FCU) to identify fake, false, and misleading information about the government and its establishments on social media.
The ruling was welcomed by digital rights groups, who had sharply criticised the the introduction of the fact check unit as an overreach by the government. “Governments should never be in the fact-checking business as that’s the job of independent media and civil society,” Mishi Choudhary, founder of the Delhi-based Software Freedom Law Center said in a statement
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Bombay High Court strikes down Centre’s amended IT rules
