India, April 10 -- India's proposed amendments to the Information Technology Rules, 2021, would bring Community Notes - a crowdsourced fact-checking feature on X - under the ministry of information and broadcasting's regulatory remit whenever they touch news and current affairs, HT has reported. Simply put, it will allow the government to take down a note correcting a minister's claim. Officials call the change procedural. The government has made this argument before. The PIB's Fact Check Unit, notified in 2023, empowered it to flag content about its own business as false, with platforms risking loss of safe harbour if they did not comply. The Bombay High Court struck it down as unconstitutional. The Centre has challenged the ruling. The ...