{"id":940400,"date":"2025-06-21T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T03:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940400"},"modified":"2025-06-21T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T04:07:17","slug":"karnataka-proposes-stringent-law-to-combat-fake-news-and-misinformation-on-social-media-7-year-jail-term-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/21\/karnataka-proposes-stringent-law-to-combat-fake-news-and-misinformation-on-social-media-7-year-jail-term-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka proposes stringent law to combat fake news and misinformation on social media. \u20187 year jail term and\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant move to tackle the spread of misinformation online, the Karnataka government is set to introduce a new law that proposes tough penalties for those found guilty of sharing fake news on social media platforms. The draft legislation \u2014 Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025 \u2014 is expected to be tabled before the next cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant move to tackle the spread of misinformation online, the Karnataka government is set to introduce a new law that proposes tough penalties for those found guilty of sharing fake news on social media platforms. The draft legislation \u2014 Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025 \u2014 is expected to be tabled before the next cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}