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WhatsApp’s February safety report: More than 9.7 million accounts banned in India
April 01, 2025 6:56 pm
Out of the total 9.7 million banned accounts, WhatsApp said 1.4 million were banned prior to any user reports.
Bombay HC red line on fake news vs free speech: Judicial review, not Government stamp
September 21, 2024 3:33 pm
The ruling reinforces that independent judicial review and not the Government’s own stamp of disapproval is crucial to determining free speech from fake news. If left solely to the Government, it could blur the lines between propaganda and criticism of it.
Bombay HC strikes down Centre’s Fact Check Unit: Unconstitutional
September 21, 2024 1:20 am
7 months after division bench deadlock, third judge delivers deciding opinion, says terms like 'fake' and 'misleading' are 'vague'
Is it permissible in law to have statute with ‘unbound, limitless discretionary authority’, HC asks Centre on amended IT rules
July 09, 2023 4:20 pm
The court also sought to know whether the online editorial or opinion content criticising government policies would be considered or flagged to be fake and misleading by the FCU.
Before amending IT Rules, govt considered concerns on misleading information: Centre tells Bombay HC
April 21, 2023 8:21 pm
The Ministry clarified that the "Fact Checking Unit" under the amended IT Rules may only direct removal of false or misleading information pertaining to government policies and programmes, not satire or artist impression.
‘Deeply concerned’: Editors Guild urges Centre to expunge amendment to IT Act rules
January 25, 2023 3:48 pm
Determination of fake news cannot be in the sole hands of the government and will result in the censorship of the press, the Editors Guild of India has said in a letter to Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
Pakistani OTT app, YouTube videos, now BBC film: How Centre has wielded IT Rules emergency powers
January 22, 2023 8:20 pm
The government has come under fire from the Opposition for directing YouTube and Twitter to take down links sharing a documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots. While Derek O’Brien has accused it of “censorship”, Kiren Rijiju has criticised the “colonial intoxication of some people”.
Cong slams change in IT Rules, says govt giving itself powers of judge, jury, executioner
January 19, 2023 3:40 pm
Congress cites examples of “fake tweets” by PIB to show Modi govt's “Orwellian Big Brother syndrome”, says it can't be arbiter of what is fake news
Print, digital self-regulatory news association gets govt’s approval
December 06, 2022 7:31 am
Intimating this through an official order on December 2, the I&B Ministry said: “It is hereby informed that Print and Digital Media Association has been registered as a self-regulatory body with the member publishers...”
Govt 'open' to self-regulatory redressal by social media companies
June 08, 2022 7:56 am
Terming the regulations as an "evolving" issue, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrashekhar said the government is looking for a way to make social media companies more accountable in handling grievances of users.
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