News Transparency Report: User Grievances Increase for Facebook, WhatsApp, Google and drop for Instagram WhatsApp even updated its document with a separate section on the number of orders received from India’s grievance redressal forum for online content Vallari SanzgiriMay 2, 2023
News Platforms Need To Be “Proactive” About Information Uploaded Under IT Rules: Aaradhya Bachchan At Delhi HC The case also highlights the many interpretations of how platforms are supposed to comply with the IT Rules, 2021. Aarathi GanesanApril 20, 2023
News Fact-check amendment will profoundly infringe on press freedom: US tech giants The Asia Internet Coalition, comprising Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon and other tech giants, released a statement on the IT Rules amendments Sarvesh MathiApril 20, 2023
News Google’s challenge against Kerala HC’s comments on Right to be Forgotten didn’t work: Here’s why Google filed a review petition arguing that HC's comment “that Google cannot claim itself as a mere intermediary” contradicts its earlier observations Vallari SanzgiriApril 18, 2023
News Fact-check amendment does not force platforms to takedown flagged content: Rajeev Chandrasekhar Social media platforms can ignore the fact-checking unit but they will have to defend their "version of the truth" in a court of law,... Sarvesh MathiApril 17, 2023
News SFLC.in’s first appeal for RTI seeking grounds for the BBC Documentary ban dismissed SFLC had filed an RTI seeking copies of the take-down orders sent to social media platforms for blocking BBC docu ‘India: The Modi Question’. Vallari SanzgiriApril 17, 2023
News Why it doesn’t matter that the Indian government’s fact-checking unit won’t be PIB Just because the government is setting up a new fact-checking unit rather than appointing PIB, it doesn't change the concerns that have been raised Nikhil PahwaApril 14, 2023
News “A new assault on free speech” — Article 21 Trust on IT Rules fact-check amendment While Article 19(2) grants the govt the power to place reasonable restrictions on certain grounds, fake news is not one of those grounds, Article... Sarvesh MathiApril 13, 2023
News Kunal Kamra challenges IT Rules fact-check amendment in Bombay High Court The HC bench has given the IT Ministry one week to file its response on why the amendment should not be stayed Sarvesh MathiApril 11, 2023
News Indian government can now fact check and censor any news related to the government: Amended IT Rules Fact-checking will likely be done by the Press Information Bureau’s fact-check unit, which falls under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Sarvesh MathiApril 7, 2023