In 2023, the Indian central government amended the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 [“the IT Rules 2021”] to establish a Fact Check Unit [“FCU”]. The FCU was tasked to monitor online content related to ‘any business of the Central Government’ and order the takedown of any information that it considered ‘fake or false or misleading.’1) The FCU itself was envisaged as a public body and a part of the central government. If intermediaries failed to comply with the FCU’s orders, the amendment established liability for intermediaries for the content posted on their platform by third-party users. This is a crucial departure from otherwise existing liability shields for online platforms. Typically, those liability rules tie liability only to speech – but not the intermediation of speech. Simply put, platforms like Facebook or Twitter are, as a matter of widely shared principle, not liable for the speech of their users. As it seems, the Indian central government wanted to depart from that principle for content concerning, or, practically speaking, criticizing the Indian State. As the FCU would be the last arbiter of what could be said online in India about the central government, the amendment instituted what could be called a ‘Ministry of Truth’.