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Sunday, July 20, 2025
TopicFact-checking

Topic: fact-checking

Maharashtra govt floats tender for fact check unit to track ‘malicious, inaccurate’ content

Tender floated for unit to be set up under Directorate General of Information and Public Relations. Govt says aim is to ‘serve public interest, bring transparency’.

Mark Zuckerberg’s tryst with Trump, tampons, and truth

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta will no longer rely on independent fact-checkers. Instead, it will adopt a system similar to Elon Musk's X, where users can leave community notes to flag inaccuracies.

Bombay HC’s ‘tie-breaker judge’ strikes down amendments that paved way for ‘fact-check units’

After a split verdict by two-judge bench in January, Justice Atul Chandurkar said Friday the 2023 amendments to IT rules was violative of Articles 14, 19 and 21.

Amended IT Rules: Bombay HC refuses to stay formation of FCUs till third judge decides petitions

Amendment was done just to muzzle criticism & questioning of central govt & to stifle dissent from what it puts out in regard to affairs of state, petitioners had contended.

‘Will bust fake news,’ says Karnataka IT minister, accusing Oppn BJP of ‘spreading hate’

The Congress and BJP have targeted each other ever since the results of the 10 May elections gave the former a clear majority.

RN Ravi can kill bills by withholding them. But this stifles people’s mandate

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

‘Draconian rule’: Editors Guild of India ‘deeply disturbed’ by govt’s move to police online news

The amendments to IT rules make it obligatory on platforms ‘not to publish, share or host fake, false or misleading information’ about the government.

On Camera

Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.