Topics: Fake news

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...

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...

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...

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...

WhatsApp on April 2 unveiled its 'Checkpoint Tipline', where people can check the authenticity of information received as the messaging giant looks to crack...

The Election Commission on Tuesday met representatives of Internet companies, including Facebook and Twitter, to discuss issues related to the use of social media...

YouTube this week has said that it will start showing 'information panels' -- flagging misinformation and offering correct insights -- for news-related videos on...

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 has announced that it will proactively shut down fake Groups and Pages, even if they were not found to be in violation of...

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...

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...

We live in an era where violence is real and the news is fake. In what can be termed as a grotesque violation of...

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...