Minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar is currently firefighting criticism of his government’s amendment to the IT Rules 2021, by which content flagged as “fake” or “misleading” by a government fact-checking unit will have to be taken down from social media.
Newspapers criticised it, the Editors Guild called it “draconian” and “akin to censorship”, and opposition leaders panned it as a “new way to restrict news critical of the government”.
