Indian journalists warn of new government assault on press freedom | CNN Business

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A nonprofit organization representing more than 200 journalists in India said in a statement that it was “deeply disturbed” by the government's new rules, saying they would have “deeply adverse implications” for press freedom in the country.

India’s government is planning to create a state fact-checking unit with the power to order social media platforms to take down content about its activities that it deems “fake or misleading.” In an amendment to rules covering digital and social media published Thursday, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said that the fact-checking would apply to information about “any business of the central government” on social media platforms.

“The dangers of misinformation, the impact of patently false information in a democracy like ours, is never to be underestimated,” Chandrasekhar said. ‘Absolute power’ The Editors Guild expressed alarm that there was no mention in the rules of “what will be the governing mechanism for such a fact-checking unit, the judicial oversight, [or] the right to appeal.

 

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