The Information Technology Act, 2000 is the primary legislation governing online content in the country and it does not provide any powers to state governments for constituting fact-checking bodies like the one Karnataka has proposed to create, policy lawyers and experts told ET.This means the Karnataka government’s decision to set up a fact-checking unit in the state for curbing fake news online may not be legally enforceable.If individual
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