Page 8 - Fake News

Research reveals hardly anybody shares fake news on Facebook, Twitter

One study that looked at Twitter activity during the 2016 election concluded that 80% of fake news was shared by just 0.1% of users

Google, Facebook and Twitter urged to take more steps to curb fake news

EU says companies need to do more to tackle disinformation

Yes Bank files complaint against 'fake news', attempt to scare depositors

Yes Bank seeks multi-disciplinary team of experts for detecting the origin of the fake news.

Piramal to LIC: Indian companies complain about WhatsApp rumours, fake news

'Malicious social media campaigns' are forcing companies is forcing companies to take help from the authorities, say analysts.

Disinformation efforts now used in 70 countries, say researchers

A report by the Oxford Internet Institute found manipulation efforts have doubled over the past two years and are being used by both democratic and authoritarian governments

Twitter cracks down on fake news, propaganda accounts across the world

Accounts coming from China seeking to sow discord among protesters in Hong Kong were closed down

The Hindu, AFP, others join BBC initiative to fight misinformation

European Broadcasting Union, the Financial Times, First Draft, The Hindu, the Wall Street Journal, CBC/Radio Canada, Reuters and the Reuters Institute are some of the organisations which have joined

World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee calls for efforts to curb fake news

Touching on the need for laws, he said every layer of the internet requires different laws

As tech giants fight fake news, a right wing publisher lands in trouble

Each day, in an office outside Phoenix, a team of young writers and editors curates reality

Coal India warns against fake recruitment notice for 88,585 jobs at SCCLCIL

Agencies like SCCLCIL try to lure the potential job seekers with job offers

Instagram posts to be reviewed by FB fact-checkers

Alarming lessons from Facebook's effort to stop fake news in India

Particularly challenging for would-be fact-checkers, from Facebook Inc. to Google, is the country's 23 official languages

Fighting fake news: Preparing India's police force to counter the threat

Police can address the fake news issue at the law and order level, but lacuna lies in understanding the core issue and fundamentally addressing it at the community level

Meet the 22-year-old tech crusader who has launched a war on fake news

Lyric Jain's intuitive app is powered by Extended Intelligence (EI) machine learning, NLP and human oversight to empower citizens to spot misinformation on any topic in India

Share facts, not rumours: WhatsApp educating users on spotting fake news

Aimed to educate people, the short online videos (available on YouTube) shows step-by-step tutorial on how to exit a group, block a contact and the significance of the forwarded label

WhatsApp, NASSCOM Foundation partner to fight fake news before elections

WhatsApp and NASSCOM Foundation has partnered to deliver digital literacy training to curb fake news, propaganda and misinformation menace before Lok Sabha Elections 2019

People below 20 and above 50 fall easily for fake news: IAMAI survey

Findings of the survey also found that newspapers continue to be the most trusted medium for news consumption

Come out with effective solutions against fake news: Govt to WhatsApp

Ahir said WhatsApp has conveyed that a number of steps have been taken by it to address the issue of fake news propagated using the platform

Spiegel apologises in cover story on publishing fake news for years

Claas Relotius, 33, resigned after admitting to making up stories and inventing protagonists in more than a dozen articles in the magazine's print and online editions.

Twitter and Facebook remove accounts in Bangladesh for manipulation

Twitter suspended a total of 15 accounts while Facebook removed nine pages and six accounts, the US social media giants said in separate statements.