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YouTube is expanding its Instagram-like feature, Stories, to more creators.

YouTube info panels to display news publisher's govt funding

Social media giants are collaborating with third-parties to verify content to combat spread of 'fake news', ahead of...

15 April 2019 3:20 PM IST

Next generation of fake news will be empowered by Artificial Intelligence and be far more sophisticated, and even more disastrous.

India discusses fake news and Its impact on Lok Sabha Elections 2019

An estimated 900 million voters (9.4% new voters) are battling the influence of fake news before they cast their votes.

10 April 2019 5:44 PM IST

Facebook said that it will instead offer the traditional ways of verifying accounts such as a code sent to their phone. (Photo: ANI)

Facebook promises crackdown on fake news in Australia

The move comes with the company - and its peers around the world - under growing pressure to rid their platforms of...

5 April 2019 1:21 PM IST

The meeting was attended by representatives of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Whatsapp, YouTube and Instagram as well as officials from the Department of Telecom and various security agencies. (Photo: AFP)

WhatsApp unveils 'tipline' to tackle fake news

This centre is equipped to review content in the form of pictures, video links or text and will cover English and four...

2 April 2019 12:40 PM IST

Researchers said companies that spread fake news against their competitors ultimately experience the brunt of negative publicity. (Photo: Pixabay)

Despite being exposed, fake news thrives on social media ahead of...

Social media companies are struggling with fake news in India despite saying they've taken steps to tackle the menace.

2 April 2019 12:25 PM IST

Next generation of fake news will be empowered by Artificial Intelligence and be far more sophisticated, and even more disastrous.

Google, Facebook, Twitter rapped for not doing enough in EU fake news...

The tech giants took a voluntary pledge last October to combat the spread of fake news.

18 May 2019 10:10 AM IST

Numerous cancers are preventable, but strategies to prevent them are either not accessible or not being adopted, leaving people at risk.

Viral cancer cure message fake: Tata Memorial hospital

For instance, a social media message claiming that hot coconut water is the solution to cancer has gone viral over the...

18 May 2019 4:08 AM IST

Following a fire at Paris Notre Dame cathedral in April, Russian media outlets in Europe blamed Islamist militants and Ukraines pro-Western government. (Photo: AFP)

Who burned Notre Dame? Brussels goes after fake news as EU election...

By funding fact-checking organisation Brussels hopes to shield the 427 million people eligible to vote for 751-seat EU...

16 May 2019 2:26 PM IST

D(S) state chief H D Kumaraswamy will take oath as Karnataka Chief Minister on May 23. (Photo: File/PTI)

Journalist arrested for circulating fake news, morphed photo of...

Police said the action was taken based on a complaint by the chief minister's media secretary H B Dinesh.

3 May 2019 5:54 PM IST

The Indian gaming market is fast catching up with the global wave. (Photo: Pixabay)

How online gaming helps to fight fake news?

The results showed that players were 21 per cent less likely to believe fake news than they were before they played the...

25 Jun 2019 12:13 PM IST

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government will take cognisance of UGCs suggestion to remove words such as Hindu and Muslim from BHU and AMU. (Photo: PTI | File)

There should be discussion on fake news in Parliament: Prakash...

WhatsApp has been at the centre of many controversies for allegedly being a platform to spread 'fake news'.

21 Jun 2019 2:21 PM IST

McEver said that she made the crystallised book in 2014 and that the artwork has no religious meaning. (Photo: Screenshot of McEvers blog)

A Bible? A Quran?: Reality check of viral post shows different story

Posts claiming the book was a Bible or Quran found underwater hail the supposed discovery as miraculous.

19 Jun 2019 2:30 PM IST