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    States don’t have powers to constitute fact-check bodies: legal experts

    While the parent legislation governing this subject (IT Act) empowers the state governments to make rules to carry out the provisions, it only allows the state governments to execute measures upon receipt of directions from the central government

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    Experts are of the view that Karnataka's decision to implement a cybersecurity function without directions from the central government appears to be ultra vires and void.

    The Information Technology Act, 2000 is the primary legislation governing online content in the country and it does not provide any powers to state governments for constituting fact-checking bodies like the one Karnataka has proposed to create, policy lawyers and experts told ET.This means the Karnataka government’s decision to set up a fact-checking unit in the state for curbing fake news online may not be legally enforceable.If individual
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