The Bombay High Court has declared the Centre’s fact-checking unit unconstitutional. What are the implications of this decision?
The Bombay High Court on Friday declared the IT Amendment Rules, 2023 unconstitutional. Under these amendments, the central government was allowed to set up a fact-checking unit to identify “false and misleading” information on social media. The court held that this violated Articles 14 (right to equality) and 19 (freedom of speech and expression) of