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      Government to Hold Discussions With Stakeholders on PIB Fact Checks for Social Media in February 2023 : MoS IT

      After outrage over a plan to give powers to its arm PIB to police fake news on social media, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the government will next month hold discussions with stakeholders before the proposal is implement.

      Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the rules for regulating online gaming are expect to be notified by 31st January 2023 after which these will be table in Parliament.

      Rajeev Chandrasekhar Said :

      “We will hold a separate consultation (on PIB fact check) sometime early next month,”

      He said when ask about clarification on the proposed amendment to the IT rules 2021.

      Rajeev Chandrasekhar also said that the consultation on the Digital Personal Data Protection Act is over and it is being process within the realms of the government for notification.

      The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) last week release a modification to the draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, which it had previously release for public consultation.

      And the consultation is largely going on for framing rules for online gaming, it adds a small note in the due diligence section for the removal of content identified as false, fake or misleading by the PIB or any government-authorise agency.

      Under the propose amendment, the due diligence by intermediaries shall include making such efforts to not upload, publish, transmit or share information identified as fake or false by the Fact Check Unit of the Press Information Bureau, which takes cognizance of fake information both suo motu and by way of queries sent by citizens on its portal or through e-mail and WhatsApp and responds with correct information when the same pertains to the government.

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      The determination of fake news cannot be in the sole hands of the government and will result in the censorship of the press, the Guild said in a statement here, voicing “deep concern” over the draft amendment to the Information Technology (IT) Rules.

      An official source, who did not wish to be name, said that the option of fact check by PIB or any other government authorised agency was adds in the propose amendment after discussion with industry.

      Official said :

      “Intermediaries, mainly social media companies, asked Meity to provide notified fact check for misinformation. We are entering into a regime where all intermediaries and fact checkers need to have accountability,”.

      Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that intermediaries are the ones who have to be regulate and they can’t put in place fact checkers.

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