Amid 'Fact-Check' Row Over Draft IT Rules, Centre Extends A Key Deadline | Read

Days after top media bodies, including the Press Association and The Editors Guild of India, wrote to Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, urging him to "expunge" the amendments to IT Rules that seek to direct social media platforms to take down news or information identified as "fake" by the Press Information Bureau's Fact Checking Unit, the Ministry today extended the deadline for feedback on the contentious draft amendment to the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 relating to due diligence by an intermediary.