Are we going to see a slew of laws and rules to "regulate" fact checkers? I can bet that the powers that be will frame the laws in such a way that even private fact checkers, like Alt News will be brought into the fray. Two weeks ago, when they factchecked and showed teh difference between the tool kit logo, and the fake one put out by the BJP, the attention of the public was diverted to the power of these "western" IT companies to label content as Manipulated data. They wanted "transparency..
If for example BOT fact checkers algorithm is transparent, then those who have access to it, like the government will be able to bye pass the logic. Many of you would have noticed that in many trolling comments, you will find strange spellings word break, punctuation marks.. all these are method to avoid the checks of the BOTS.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/covid-vaccine-facebook-takes-down-pib-factcheck-coronavirus-death-7344813 The Blocking of the PIB fact check on the claim attributed to Luc Montagnier that those who get vaccinated would die within two years and the unblocking by FB & Insta has also led to " the IT Ministry raising concerns about the lack of transparency in the appointment of fact-checkers. In internal meetings with other government departments who had flagged the issue, the Ministry is learnt to have assured the officials of being “aware of the issue”.
“Both the platforms claim to have robust fact-checking mechanisms in place. When we reached out to them on this, they said that this was done inadvertently since a machine flagged it as false news. We have asked them as to why it was not cross-checked by a human fact checker,” an IT Ministry official said."
Staya Hindi discusses the changing relationship between social media and the parties. https://youtu.be/Fx1XpEcNM-A?t=1245