PIB Fact Check Unit Has Busted 1,160 Fake Cases Since 2019, Anurag Thakur Told Lok Sabha

PIB Fact Check: Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Singh Thakur told in a reply in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday that the Fact Check Unit of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) 1 of false information since its inception in November 000 cases have been busted. Thakur said, ‘The fact check unit takes cognizance of fake news related to the central government on its own and through queries sent by citizens on its portal or through e-mail and social media. Since its inception PIB has , More complaints have been received. 1 of fake news,126 cases have been busted.’

2019 In Fake news busted

Fact Check Unit has 2022 of fake news busted, in Cases were busted. 15610 of fake news in 15610 Cases dismissed, which increased in Matters are done. In the current year, Cases of fake news came to the fore, Thakur said while replying to a question by Congress MPs K Muraleedharan and Benny Behanan. According to the ‘Crime in India 2022’ report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), ‘fake/fake news/ Section of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) relating to cases of dissemination of ‘rumours’ in the number of cases under % decline was registered.

What is the data of NCRB? NCRB data shows that ‘fake/false news’ in 2022 Number of cases concerned 368, 2020 1 in,527 and 2022 in 882 Was. In January, a proposed amendment to the Information Technology Rules 2022 suggested that “fake or identified as false” should be removed. The amendment mentions that any information marked as “fake or misleading” by the fact-checking unit of the PIB or any agency “authorized by the central government for fact-checking” will be required to be removed. Anurag Singh Thakur answered many other questions Anurag Singh Thakur also replied to another question in the Lok Sabha by Samajwadi Party MP Uday Pratap Singh regarding amendment in rules to ban fake news on digital and OTT platforms. Thakur said, “All TV channels have to be programmed under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, It is required to adhere to the code, which also includes that the programs should not contain anything obscene, defamatory, deliberate, false and suggestive innuendo and half-truths.”

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