States have No Powers to Form Fact-check Units Under IT Act’ – The Economic Times – Bangalore

The Information Technology Act, 2000 is the primary legislation governing online content in the country and it does not provide any powers to state governments for constituting fact-checking bodies like the one Karnataka has proposed to create, policy experts told ET.

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