{"id":942039,"date":"2025-06-28T06:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942039"},"modified":"2025-06-28T06:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T01:12:26","slug":"karnatakas-fake-news-bill-rs-10-lakh-fine-7-year-jail-for-disrespecting-sanatan-symbols-promoting-superstition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/28\/karnatakas-fake-news-bill-rs-10-lakh-fine-7-year-jail-for-disrespecting-sanatan-symbols-promoting-superstition\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka\u2019s fake news bill: Rs 10 lakh fine, 7-year jail for disrespecting sanatan symbols, promoting superstition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state government\u2019s draft proposal\u2014the Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025\u2014placed before the cabinet last week, has raised concern among stakeholders. According to the bill, the government looks to criminalise and punish those who spread misinformation. The draft bill says that companies and social media platforms may also be held liable for fake news shared through their networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state government\u2019s draft proposal\u2014the Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025\u2014placed before the cabinet last week, has raised concern among stakeholders. According to the bill, the government looks to criminalise and punish those who spread misinformation. The draft bill says that companies and social media platforms may also be held liable for fake news shared through their networks.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942039","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=942039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}