A large part of misinformation directed towards govt, says MoS IT

A large part of misinformation has been directed towards the government in the last 2-3 years, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in a live Twitter session on Friday.

During the session on Twitter, the minister stood firm on new rules to notify a fact checker that will identify false or misleading content related to the government on social media platforms.

"When you do an analysis over the last....2-3 years, a large part of the misinformation operations have always been directed against the government," Chandrasekhar said.

He cited a Washington Post story, which talks about Khalistani bots and accounts posting fake information about the government.

"Misinformation directed towards the government needed to be addressed. This was a request not just by the users of the internet, but also the intermediaries who now have to comply with Rules...and because it was government information and government facts, it cannot be a fact-checking unit outside the ..