The amendments, specifically to Rule 3, provides that the Central government ‘s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology can notify a fact-checking body which is empowered to identify and tag what it considers false or fake online news with respect to any activity of the Central government.
The telecom service providers and social media intermediaries will then have to take action against such content failing which they would lose the safe harbour protection under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act.
Kamra moved the Court challenging the revised 3(1)(b)(v).
The Court agreed to hear the matter on April 21.
This is a developing story.
Source: Barandbench
