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CPM Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas, a member of the Standing Committee on Information Technology (IT), said the amendments haven’t been discussed in the committee.
Speaking during a live session on Twitter, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar stood firm on new rules to notify a fact-checker that will identify false or misleading content related to the government on social media platforms
The government has to set rules allowing fact-checking by the unit that it notifies and these rules have to be consistent with the provisions of freedom of expression as enshrined under the Constitution
The INS said that the government's fact-checking rules, which give a committee the power to take down content that is labelled "fake or false or misleading", calling them arbitrary and a violation of natural justice principles.
While explaining why the proposed fact check unit could not have been formed outside the government, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that information relating to the government would only be available with the concerned ministries or departments.