On April 6, 2023, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MEITY) created the Amendment IT Rules, 2023. It authorizes a ‘fact check unit of the central government’ to identify, ‘fake or false or misleading’ information in respect of ‘any business of the central government.
In this context, Vinay Butani, Partner Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has been quoted in an article “New IT rules on fact checking are troublesome”, published by ETLegalWorld.