Why a government-run ‘fact-checking’ unit has been stayed by the Supreme Court

[ad_1] The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Centre’s notification from a day earlier of a government-run fact-checking unit with the power to label any information about the Union government as “fake”. This means that the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines...

Centre notifies fact check unit under PIB

[ad_1] The government on Wednesday has notified the ‘Fact Check Unit’ (FCU) under the Press Information Bureau (PIB) of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, as the fact check unit of the Centre.“In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause...