India floats plan to make big tech pay for news, walks back government censorship

India’s IT minister has signaled he is willing to revisit a proposal to use government fact checkers to decide what is fake news that should be removed from social media. In remarks made to Indian outlet The Economic Times, minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the government’s plan was to “crack down on enemies of India, state actors, those with vested interests, child sexual abuse, and religious incitement”

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