{"id":951072,"date":"2025-07-30T08:41:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951072"},"modified":"2025-07-30T08:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:25:23","slug":"tweaked-fake-news-bill-better-but-not-perfect-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/30\/tweaked-fake-news-bill-better-but-not-perfect-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweaked \u2018fake news bill\u2019 better, but not perfect: Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the Karnataka government\u2019s draft bill to regulate the spread of false information online remains vague in its intent despite revision. The latest version has dropped \u2018fake news\u2019 from the title and reduced punishments. It is now titled the Karnataka Misinformation Regulation Bill, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Tanveer Hasan, executive director of the Centre for Internet and Society, notes that the draft seems to have lost sight of its original goal. \u201cThe bill was supposed to cultivate fact-checking among the citizens,\u201d he reasons. However, he calls the draft \u201ca good first step\u201d and welcomes the reduced punishments and inclusion of corrective and disabling actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the Karnataka government\u2019s draft bill to regulate the spread of false information online remains vague in its intent despite revision. The latest version has dropped \u2018fake news\u2019 from the title and reduced punishments. It is now titled the Karnataka Misinformation Regulation Bill, 2025. Tanveer Hasan, executive director of the Centre for Internet and Society, notes that the draft seems to have lost sight of its original goal. \u201cThe bill was supposed to cultivate fact-checking among the citizens,\u201d he reasons. However, he calls the draft \u201ca good first step\u201d and welcomes the reduced punishments and inclusion of corrective and [&hellip;]<\/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-951072","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\/951072","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=951072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}