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Army personnel and relatives shoulder the coffin of Army jawan Naik Sandeep Kaliraman, who died after succumbing to injuries sustained during the encounter with militants following Pulwama terror attack.

Fighting fake

Fake news haunted the masses yet again after Pulwama. Survey reveals the youth is most susceptible to viral videos.

23 Feb 2019 1:21 AM

WhatsApp states that they launched a nationwide campaign called “Share Joy, Not Rumors” in over 10 languages.

WhatsApp fights bulk messaging in the run-up to the national elections

WhatsApp details how bulk messaging and coordinated abuse is fought.

06 Feb 2019 6:07 PM

Snopes, which started its online fact-checking since 1994, entered into a partnership with Facebook in 2016 to curb the issue of misinformation that is rampant on the platform. (Photo: ANI)

Snopes quits fact-checking for Facebook

The company revealed that it is currently evaluating the ramifications and costs of providing third-party fact-checking services.

03 Feb 2019 11:57 AM

The take-down was due to “coordinated deceptive behaviour ... not due to the content they had shared."

Facebook takes down accounts linked to fake news syndicate

These accounts and pages were actively working to conceal what they were doing.

01 Feb 2019 11:24 AM

That means the crowdsourcing approach could work especially well in marginalising false news stories -- for instance by building audience judgments into an algorithm ranking stories by quality. (Representational Image | Pixabay)

MIT study suggests crowdsourcing might be the solution to fake news

Respondents in the survey distrusted marginal websites, and there was agreement among general audience and professional fact-checkers.

30 Jan 2019 4:43 PM

The Commission called on Facebook to provide more clarity on how it uses its tools to fight fake news and told Google to expand its actions to more EU countries.

Google, Facebook, Twitter urged to do more against fake news

Companies and trade bodies representing the advertising industry signed up to a voluntary code of conduct.

30 Jan 2019 11:07 AM

The forward limit significantly reduced forwarded messages around the world. (Photo: Pixabay)

WhatsApp to cap message forwarding to 5 chats globally

WhatsApp carefully evaluated this test and listened to user feedback over a six-month period.

21 Jan 2019 3:39 PM

Govt mulls law to force firms trace fake news

The ministry is seeking feedback from the public on the draft amendments by January 15 before taking a final decision.

25 Dec 2018 1:18 AM

Such misinformation has led to the lynching of over 30 people since January last year. (Photo: Pixabay)

Government meets with WhatsApp over tracing of fake news: source

WhatsApp has been working to curb the circulation of what technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad termed “sinister” content.

07 Dec 2018 6:29 PM

The internet companies will have to submit their reports from January until May. (Photo: AP)

EU steps up fight against ‘fake news’ ahead of elections

Officials from the EU’s executive Commission unveiled the measures Wednesday as part of an action plan to counter disinformation.

06 Dec 2018 12:02 PM

Bose’s appointment is the first time WhatsApp has created a country head role anywhere in the world.

WhatsApp hires Ezetap's Abhijit Bose to be its India head

WhatsApp tries to curb the spread of misinformation on its service in India where it has more than 200 million users.

22 Nov 2018 10:59 AM

Delhi-based DEF is a not-for-profit social enterprise that empowers people at the edge of information, including marginalised and underserved communities. (Photo: Pixabay)

Fake news: WhatsApp, DEF host training for community leaders in Jaipur

Over 120 participants were trained on how to spot false news and differentiate between rumours and opinions.

19 Nov 2018 6:05 PM

The political atmosphere is so vitiated, though, with both sides tending to believe in hurling invective, that fake news and trolls, generated largely by paid cyber cells, has turned into a serious, viral problem.(Representational image)

Fake news is winning the war against facts

Extensive research by the BBC World Service has thrown light on what India has known for a while as an incipient problem of fake news.

14 Nov 2018 3:50 AM

Fake news is like a virus: Akhilesh Yadav

Mr Akhilesh Yadav compared fake news to a virus while speaking at the ‘Beyond Fake News’ conference here on Monday,

13 Nov 2018 12:15 AM

FaceBook elections sign stands in the media area in Cleveland, before the first Republican presidential debate. With the US midterm elections coming soon on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, there are signs that they're making some headway, although they're still a long way from winning the war. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Social media’s misinformation battle: No winners, so far

Facebook and other social platforms have been waging a fight against online misinformation and hate speech for two years.

04 Nov 2018 9:41 AM

Twitter said it has removed large numbers of accounts for breaching its terms of use over the last two weeks.

Fake news network vs bots: the online war around Khashoggi killing

Bots have flooded social media in recent weeks, many of them promoting messages which support Saudi Arabia.

02 Nov 2018 10:10 AM

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference in San Jose, Calif. Facebook Inc. reports earnings Tuesday, Oct. 30. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Facebook caught in an election-security Catch-22

CEO Mark Zuckerberg called 2019 “another year of significant investment” during the earnings call.

31 Oct 2018 8:09 PM

Facebook will ban false information about voting requirements and fact-check fake reports of violence or long lines at polling stations ahead of next month’s US midterm elections.

Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming US elections

Facebook has stopped short of banning all false or misleading posts, something that it has shied away.

16 Oct 2018 1:17 PM

WhatsApp’s efforts to battle fake news in India include a limit on forwarded messages in a market where more users pass around messages, photographs and videos than any other.

WhatsApp hits the road with skits to stamp out fake news in India

The drive follows intense government pressure for both Facebook and WhatsApp to fight fake news.

14 Oct 2018 10:32 AM

The machine learning approach is also capable of drawing links between a site's authenticity and its Wikipedia page or web addresses.

Researchers build AI that scans source for fake news

The AI uses machine learning algorithm which has been trained using Media Bias/Fact Check's analysis of over 2,000 news outlets.

05 Oct 2018 9:44 AM

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