{"id":940649,"date":"2025-06-23T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940649"},"modified":"2025-06-23T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T04:09:11","slug":"partisan-enforcement-digital-rights-group-flags-concerns-over-karnataka-govts-draft-law-on-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/23\/partisan-enforcement-digital-rights-group-flags-concerns-over-karnataka-govts-draft-law-on-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Partisan enforcement&#8217;: Digital rights group flags concerns over Karnataka govt&#8217;s draft law on fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Digital rights advocacy group Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has cautioned the Karnataka government about the dangers in the proposed law against fake news and misinformation, which it said could lead to &#8220;partisan or selective enforcement&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Social media users found guilty of posting fake news will face up to seven years imprisonment and a maximum fine of Rs 10 lakh, according to the draft Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: Digital rights advocacy group Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has cautioned the Karnataka government about the dangers in the proposed law against fake news and misinformation, which it said could lead to &#8220;partisan or selective enforcement&#8221;. Social media users found guilty of posting fake news will face up to seven years imprisonment and a maximum fine of Rs 10 lakh, according to the draft Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Act.<\/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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940649","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=940649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}