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According to the new IT rules, any online content that the ministry-appointed fact-checking body marks as “fake or misleading” will have to be taken down by online intermediaries if they wish to retain legal immunity against third-party content.
MeitY to take into consideration a proposal by intermediaries to create self-regulatory organisation to fact-check online content not related to government
The Editors Guild of India on Friday said it was 'deeply disturbed' by the 'draconian' amendments to the Information Technology Rules that gave the government 'absolute power' to determine fake news.
In January, the ministry introduced draft amendments to the IT Rules that said that news identified as fake or false by the Press Information Bureau's fact check unit needed to be removed from social media platforms.
In the post-truth age, history has become a political tool to advance megalomaniacal, ultra-nationalist, and pro-oligarchy agendas. The best resistance to the abuse, misuse, and distortion of history is to develop an evidence-based, collective consciousness of historiography, which is – simply put – the writing of history.