India amends its IT law to ban social media platforms from hosting “misleading” content about the government and requiring that they use its fact-check unit (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

India amends its IT law to ban social media platforms from hosting “misleading” content about the government and requiring that they use its fact-check unit (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India amends its IT law to ban social media platforms from hosting “misleading” content about the government and requiring that they use its fact-check unit  —  India amended its IT law on Thursday to prohibit Facebook, Twitter and other social media firms from publishing …