Topics: Fake news
Facebook
PNG Health Minister: Facebook COVID-19 misinformation is threat to vaccination drive
Papua New Guinea's Health Minister Jelta Wong has called, "Misinformation post on COVID-19 vaccine on Facebook is the biggest threat to the vaccination drive." In...
News
Nancy Pelosi says, “Twitter to put fact check on President Trump’s tweet seems to be very selective”
Addressing the media on Friday, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, "Twitter to put fact-check on President Donald Trump's tweet seems to be very...
Apps
Government's new privacy bill may force social media platforms to offer user verification option: Reports
Government's proposed new privacy bill may require large social media platforms to offer an identity-verification option, a potentially precedent-setting effort to rein in the...
Facebook
Facebook to ban 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...
Social
WhatsApp launches ‘Checkpoint Tipline,’ to check the authenticity of information received
WhatsApp on April 2 unveiled its 'Checkpoint Tipline', where people can check the authenticity of information received as the messaging giant looks to crack...
Inside
Election Commission of India meets with representatives of Internet firms
The Election Commission on Tuesday met representatives of Internet companies, including Facebook and Twitter, to discuss issues related to the use of social media...
News
YouTube to show information panels to flag misinformation and to correct insights for videos related to news
YouTube this week has said that it will start showing 'information panels' -- flagging misinformation and offering correct insights -- for news-related videos on...
Facebook
The UK Parliamentary committee says Facebook is acting like a digital gangsters
Lashing out at Facebook for behaving like "digital gangsters" in the online world, a UK parliamentary committee concluded that the social networking giant intentionally...
Facebook
Facebook to scrub Fake Groups and Fake pages from its platform
Facebook has announced that it will proactively shut down fake Groups and Pages, even if they were not found to be in violation of...
Social
Twitter CEO says, taking multiple steps to curb fake news ahead of 2019 Elections in India
Twitter is taking "multi-variable" steps, including the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, to curb the spread of misleading information on its platform ahead...
Inside
Indian Govt Orders Social Media Companies to monitor Fake News and Rumors
India, considered as one of the biggest internet markets in the world, has its share of troubles with fake news. In light of the meeting...
AI
Artificial Intelligence can help you in finding Fake News
We live in an era where violence is real and the news is fake. In what can be termed as a grotesque violation of...
Inside
LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong calls “Fake news on social media as cancer of our time”
In an interview with Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong on CNBC on Wednesday, Patrick Soon-Shiong said that fake news on social media are the cancer of...