{"id":239536,"date":"2023-04-25T19:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T14:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=239536"},"modified":"2023-04-25T19:43:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T14:13:02","slug":"the-government-shouldnt-be-running-a-fact-check-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-government-shouldnt-be-running-a-fact-check-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"The government shouldn\u2019t be running a fact-check unit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cThe government shouldn\u2019t be running a fact-check unit\u201d <\/b>published in the\u00a0Livemint <\/b>on\u00a025th April 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 3: role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About amendments to IT Rules.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Recently, <\/span>the government of India has notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the salient provisions of the IT amendment rules?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read here: IT Ministry notifies body to flag \u2018fake\u2019 content about govt<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What are the concerns associated with amendments to IT Rules?<\/span><\/h2>\n

State’s rejection of ground reality<\/strong>: A private survey has shown that the health department\u2019s management information system (MIS) missed more than 75% of infant deaths in Maharashtra. This survey led to the formation of the Abhay Bang committee which proposed recommendations for proper measuring. Later, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a child nutrition mission in 2005. The State’s model of using community health workers to monitor and treat newborns was eventually scaled up across rural India.<\/p>\n

If Maharashtra had a state-run fact-check unit, then the government will dismiss the private report as false. This will diminish the progress of society<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Restrict public access to data<\/strong>: Since only government officials have access to certain kinds of government data, the government data might be inaccessible to the public. For instance, analysts prefer to use the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data rather than Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) data. This is because the anonymized respondent-level PLFS data is publicly available, unlike the EPFO database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Express View on IT Rules amendments: Government sets itself up as judge, jury and executioner<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What are the advantages of amendment to IT Rules?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read here: Amendment to IT Rules and regulating fake news \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

At a time when India is trying to emerge as a viable and democratic alternative to China, India need to reconsider the amendments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cThe government shouldn\u2019t be running a fact-check unit\u201d published in the\u00a0Livemint on\u00a025th April 2023. Syllabus: GS \u2013 3: role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges. Relevance: About amendments to IT Rules. News: Recently, the government of India has notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines… Continue reading The government shouldn\u2019t be running a fact-check unit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10501],"class_list":["post-239536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239536","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\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}