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Sri Lankan soldiers stand guard outside a closed church in Colombo on April 28, 2019, a week after a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka.(Photo: AFP)

Security tight as Sri Lanka lifts ban on social media

The Sri Lankan government has lifted a ban on social media platforms intended to stop the spread of rumours.

30 April 2019 12:24 PM IST

This file photo shows the Twitter icon on a mobile phone, in Philadelphia. (Photo: AP)

Active Twitter users most likely to spread 'fake news': study

The study does not consider Twitter users who may have seen the original tweets with false news and ignored them.

13 May 2018 9:04 PM IST

In the effort of drawing visitors and revenue, publishing fake and satirical content have become a common practice. (photo: Pixabay)

Finally here's how you can identify a fake news

Eyeo has released a browser extension TrustedNews which identifies and reports about a content being trustworthy or...

18 Jun 2018 3:30 PM IST

Asif Nizami and Nazim Nizami, the Sufi clerics who have gone missing. (Photo: File)

Pak newspaper claimed we were RAW agents: Sufi cleric

Nazim Nizami, one of the two clerics, said a Pakistani newspaper Ummat in printed false statements of them being RAW...

20 March 2017 2:16 PM IST