{"id":239195,"date":"2023-04-22T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=239195"},"modified":"2023-04-24T15:56:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T10:26:27","slug":"misinformation-combat-alliance-indian-fact-checking-network-focuses-on-fake-news-on-ruling-party-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/misinformation-combat-alliance-indian-fact-checking-network-focuses-on-fake-news-on-ruling-party-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Misinformation Combat Alliance: Indian fact checking network focuses on fake news on ruling party, government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Indian fact checking network focuses on fake news on ruling party, government<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>22nd April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Misinformation Combat Alliance has approached the government to act as a self-regulating body to flag fake news online in line with the IT Rules, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Misinformation Combat Alliance?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MCA is an alliance of media companies set up in March 2022 to combat misinformation and build tools to aid fact-checking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is currently a network of 14 digital publishers which includes publications such as Boom Live, Factly, The Logical Indian, Vishwas News and The Quint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Membership in the MCA is open to any organization that applies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the proposal given by the Misinformation Combat Alliance to the government?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Misinformation Combat Alliance has approached the government to act as a self-regulating body to flag fake news online in line with the IT Rules, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MCA\u2019s proposal is to regulate misinformation that is unrelated to the Union government, which is reportedly due to the Government of India\u2019s unwillingness to hand this mandate to an international network like the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the IT ministry, through an amendment to the Information Technology Rules of 2022, introduced a provision for the establishment of a government-run body to fact-check any misinformation about the government.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndian fact checking network focuses on fake news on ruling party, government\u201d published in The Hindu on 22nd April 2023 What is the News? The Misinformation Combat Alliance has approached the government to act as a self-regulating body to flag fake news online in line with the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/misinformation-combat-alliance-indian-fact-checking-network-focuses-on-fake-news-on-ruling-party-government\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Misinformation Combat Alliance: Indian fact checking network focuses on fake news on ruling party, government<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[511,11472,10498],"class_list":["post-239195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-fake-news","tag-misinformation-combat-alliance","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}