nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/a561364a8208abeb DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 241008s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/a561364a8208abeb doi eng 342 23 Jain, Anmol Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-4596-3911 The Bombay High Court Dismisses the Ministry of Truth Jain, Anmol Verfassungsblog 2024-10-08 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In 2023, the Indian central government established a Fact Check Unit to monitor online content related to ‘any business of the Central Government’ and order the takedown of any information that it considered ‘fake or false or misleading.’ The FCU itself was envisaged as a public body and a part of the central government. As it seems, the Indian central government wanted to depart from existing liability rules protecting platforms in all cases of online criticism of the Indian State. As the FCU would be the last arbiter of what could be said online in India about the central government, the amendment instituted what could be called a ‘Ministry of Truth’. This was struck down by the Bombay High Court. CC BY-SA 4.0 Fake News Free Speech India Indian Constitution Meinungsfreiheit Supreme Court of India (DE-588)4038463-9 gnd Meinungsfreiheit Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/india-fact-checking-unit-fake-news/ raw object