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Taking a swipe at the Modi govt over the fact-check provisions of the IT Amendment Rules, Sibal said that centre will now decide what is fake, while Amit Shah said democracy is not in danger.
The Ministry of Electronics and IT notified amendments to the Information Technology Rules, 2021, which allows the Ministry to appoint a fact-check body which will take a call on whether online information related to the Central Government is accurate.
In a notice issued on Friday, the guild stated that the amendments granted the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) the power to establish a "fact checking unit" with sweeping powers to determine what is false or misleading concerning any Central Government business.