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India will fact-check online posts about government matters
- isaacfrond 3y agotl;dr In India, a government-run agency will now monitor and undertake fact-checking for government related matters on social media. Tech companies that serve more than 5 million users in India will be required to “make reasonable efforts” to not display, store, transmit or otherwise share information that deceives or misleads users about matters pertaining to the government, the IT ministry said. The Editors Guild of India legally challenged New Delhi from moving ahead with the proposal, stating the new law forces social media firms to welcome “a regime of self- interested censorship.” Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Indian minister of state for IT, assured last year that the then-proposal wasn’t designed to censor journalism.