Twitter receives notice from India’s Supreme Court over request for fake news checker from ruling BJP

The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of India has sought a response from Twitter and the government concerning a petition filed last May asking for a mechanism to check fake news and regulate seditious and incendiary content through fake accounts.

On Friday, Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde issued a notice on the petition filed by BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party, India’s ruling party) politician Vinit Goenka, which concerned a mechanism for checking fake news. It requested comment from both the Indian government and the social media giant. 

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