India amends its IT law to ban social media platforms from hosting “misleading” content about the government and requiring that they use its fact-check unit
TechCrunch Manish Singh
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Discussion
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@nixxin
Nikhil Pahwa
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Yesterday, the Indian government notified rules that allow the Press Information Bureau the powers to take down news content based on their own fact check. This is problematic for our democracy for multiple reasons, esp as we head towards elections: 1. The role of news media 1/
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@babumoshaaye
Abhijit Dey
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So just censorship. https://twitter.com/...
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@pitdesi
Sheel Mohnot
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India will prohibit Facebook, Twitter & other social media sites from hosting/sharing “false or misleading” info about the government, regulated by the govts own fact-checkers 🤷🏽♂️ https://techcrunch.com/...
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@rajeev_goi
@rajeev_goi
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New India is committed to an Open, Safe & Trusted and Accountable Internet! #Misinformation is a major threat to the principles of #OSTA ➡️ Building on the October 2022 notification of the #ITRules, @narendramodi Ji's government is focused on checking and preventing the spread...…
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@mattnavarra
Matt Navarra
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India amends law to prohibit Facebook, Twitter from hosting or sharing false or misleading info about “ANY business” of the government AND They're required to rely on the Government's own fact-checkers to determine the authenticity of any claim 🤔 https://techcrunch.com/...