News Marked Fake By PIB Must Be Taken Down, Says Draft IT Rules

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By Ritika Jain Content that has been “fact checked” and identified as fake by the Centre’s fact-checking unit must be taken down, the draft amendment to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 said. This means that intermediaries like digital news portals and social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube which are governed by the IT Rules, 2021 will have to take down content that is “identified as fake or false by the fact check unit at the Press Information Bureau of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting or other agency…

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