Tag: Fake News

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2nd leg of WhatsApp campaign to fight fake news

New Delhi: Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Monday launched the second-leg of its “Share Joy, Not Rumours” education campaign to encourage the responsible use of its platform ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. In addition to the earlier TV, print and radio ads, the new campaign would educate people on the controls available in WhatsApp so they […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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April Fools hoax stories can help spot fake news

London: The language used in April Fools hoaxes could offer clues to spotting ‘fake news’ articles, say researchers who discovered similarities in the language used in humorous spoofs and malicious stories. For the research, the team from Lancaster University in the UK, compiled a novel dataset, or corpus, of more than 500 April Fools articles sourced […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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Facebook may hire journalists to curb fake news

San Francisco: In order to better tackle fake news and improve quality of content on its platform, Facebook might hire a new generation of digital-era journalists and news publishers. In a discussion with Mathias Dopfner, CEO of Europe’s largest publisher Axel Springer, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday talked over how the platform should create […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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WhatsApp unveils tipline to report fake news in India

New Delhi: WhatsApp on Tuesday launched a service in India where over 200 million users in the country can tip off fake news, misinformation and rumours related to elections. Launched by PROTO, a media skilling start-up, the tipline will help create a database of rumours to study misinformation during elections for Checkpoint — a research […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
WhatsApp tipline of no use for 2019 Lok Sabha polls

New Delhi: WhatsApp’s “Checkpoint Tipline” service that was launched with much fanfare on April 2 to help users in India report fake news is not a helpline number but a data-gathering research project to help the Facebook-owned platform understand how misinformation spreads. According to Proto, a media skill start-up WhatsApp has partnered with for its […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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India needs human-centric AI to curb fake news

New Delhi: As social media giants fight to curb fake news ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, an Indian-origin tech junkie has stressed it is not enough as the nation needs better human-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions to combat the spread of misinformation. For Lyric Jain, a 22-year-old Cambridge and MIT graduate, social media platforms and […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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Stop 'Frequently Forwarded' messages soon on WhatsApp

New Delhi: In a bid to minimize fake news on its platform, WhatsApp is now testing a new feature within its Groups Settings to help users stop sending “Frequently Forwarded” messages. The Facebook-owned platform is already working on two features that will help its over 1.5 billion users know how many times a message has been […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
Facebook to punish Groups for spreading fake news

San Francisco: In yet another bid to tame fake news, Facebook will crack down on Groups that repeatedly share misinformation by reducing that Group’s overall News Feed distribution. The social media platform will also hold admins of the Facebook Groups more accountable for the Community Standards violations. “When people in a group repeatedly share content that […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
Polls midway, social media still fighting fake news

New Delhi: The great Indian election season has hit midway – with three phases of voting now over and four more to go – but social media platforms are still scrambling to control the spread of election-related misinformation. Social media “warriors” are busy propagating “reworked” and “reoriented” content related to political news, government scams, historical […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Singapore passes fake news bill after days of debate

Singapore: Singapore parliament has passed a comprehensive piece of legislation to combat fake news, after a marathon two-day debate, amid criticism from opponents and activists who consider it an attack on freedom of expression, the media reported on Thursday. The legislation titled, “Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill”, is not a political tool for the […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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'All-time high' fake news storm hits millions in India polls

New Delhi: Veena Arora, a retired school principal in a small town of Uttar Pradesh, decided to use a smartphone in November last year for the first time at the cajoling of her children so that the family could stay together online even though they live in different cities. In no time, she joined WhatsApp and […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
Facebook full of fake online review groups, warns Which?

London: Facebook has failed to stop fake product review factories that are increasingly being used to mislead consumers, an investigation by consumer association Which? has found. Facebook remains flooded with fake review groups, despite being ordered to take urgent action by UK regulator Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the study found. “Our latest findings demonstrate […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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Social Media Rumours About Coronation Of New Puri King 'FALSE'

Bhubaneswar: A photo is being circulated on social media platforms claiming about the coronation of new Puri King. The picture, which has gone viral, purportedly shows a youth in a customary attire along with Puri Gajapati Dibyasingha Deb and Raja Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo of Dhenkanal and their families. In no time speculations were rife […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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Fake News More Dangerous Than Paid News: I&B Minister Javadekar

New Delhi: Fake news is more dangerous than paid news and there is a need for the government and the media to combat it jointly, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday. The government will not take any step that may curb media freedom, the minister said and suggested there should be some […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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Fake News Bigger Menace Than Paid News: Javadekar

New Delhi: Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Saturday that fake news was a bigger menace than paid news and urged the media fraternity to introspect about ways to deal with it. Speaking at an event organised by the Press Council of India to observe National Press Day and confer National Awards for Excellence in […]

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
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