Fake News

New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed strong displeasure on Centre's affidavit in a case related to media reporting on a Tablighi Jamaat congregation during the onset of Covid-19 pandemic. The top court asked the Centre...

New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) To help promote informed discussion and reduce spread of fake, harmful content, Twitter will very soon launch a new prompt on Android for the users to open and read the article first before retweeting. After a...

New Delhi, Aug 21 (IANS) Facing intense political heat in India over its alleged role in favouring the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on its platform, social networking giant Facebook on Friday clarified its position, saying it has removed and...

San Francisco, Aug 11 (IANS) As the US presidential election inches closer, Facebook is set to crack down on local news outlets backed or supported by political groups that push their agenda on the platform, Axios reported on Tuesday. The...

San Francisco (IANS) Facing ad boycott from more than 400 advertisers, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has said that the company is working to remove hate speech on the platform not for financial reasons or advertiser pressure, because...

Toronto (IANS) People who get their news from social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are more likely to have misperceptions about Covid-19 pandemic, warn researchers. The study, published in the journal Misinformation Review, revealed that those that consume more...

Seoul, (IANS) Google''s video-sharing platform YouTube will cooperate with South Korea to closely monitor and prevent the spread of fake news and illegal content. Google''s Senior Vice President Neal Mohan made the comments during a videoconference with Han Sang-hyuk, chairman...

New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) The International Fact-Checking Network, a unit of the Poynter Institute, on Thursday launched the Hindi version of its global chatbot for WhatsApp to fight misinformation about Covid-19. The service was previously available in English and...

New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Poynter Institutes International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) on Monday launched its chatbot on WhatsApp to help two billion users of the Facebook-owned instant messaging platform to check veracity of information related to COVID-19. The IFCN''s bot...

New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) The Indian government was second to the US in requesting Facebook for access to users' data in the first six months of this year -- an increase of nearly 37 per cent from the second...