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- India
West Bengal violence: Fake news, old images widely shared on social media
Kolkata: Only hours after Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress registered a landslide victory in West Bengal polls, reports of party-versus-party violence that left at least 12 people dead so far, poured in. Prime…
- Hyderabad News
Cyberabad police launches online portal for COVID related info
Hyderabad: The Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC) with the Cyberabad police has launched an online portal for people to have easy access to relevant and verified information related to all COVID-19 queries…
- India
Delhi: COVID-19 volunteers claim intimidation by cops; BJP’s IT cell suspected
While the country is going through a major crisis after being hit by the second wave of COVID-19, states have been experiencing shortage of COVID essentials and supplies in hospitals and medical…
- Hyderabad News
Hyderabad: YouTube channel booked for fake news
Hyderabad: City Police on Wednesday registered a criminal case against a YouTube channel for allegedly indulging in false reporting. According to the Police Commissioner Hyderabad Anjani Kumar, the channel had posted fake…
- Hyderabad News
Man arrested for circulating fake govt order on lockdown
Hyderabad: The city police on Monday arrested a man who was allegedly involved in preparing and circulating the fake Government Order (G.O) which said that a lockdown was being imposed in Telangana.…
- Hyderabad News
Hyderabad: Fake police recruitment notification goes viral
Hyderabad: A day after the fake lock down G.O created confusion among the public, now the fake notification in the name of Telangana State Level Police Recruitment Board went viral online on…
- Elections
WB polls: I-PAC debunks ‘survey’ claiming Mamata’s loss in Nandigram
Hyderabad: Indian Political Action Committee, also known as I-PAC, debunked a “survey” attributed to it by right-wingers and supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which said that Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo…
- Technology
Google blocked 99M Covid-related fake ads in 2020
San Francisco: Google blocked over 99 million Covid-related ads in 2020, including those for miracle cures, N95 masks due to supply shortages and fake vaccine doses. As claims and conspiracies about the coronavirus’s…
- Hyderabad News
Hyderabad: Man arrested for circulating disinformation about COVID-19 on WhatsApp
Hyderabad: Cyber Crime Cell of Rachakonda Police Commissionerate here on Wednesday arrested 29-year-old Sadik Basha for circulating fake information related to COVID-19 on WhatsApp. Police stated that the content of the message was…
- India
Perturbed by ‘fake news’, Adani Group writes to government
New Delhi: Adani Group has written a letter to Union Minister for Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad over a planned attempt to malign the reputation of the prominent business houses through…
- Technology
How Twitter has badly failed to tame parody accounts in India
New Delhi: Parody accounts on Twitter were meant to post fun-laden tweets to delight the followers. Instead, they have become fake news factories, misleading the users on burning issues in India. Twitter…
- Technology
Google to boost fake news, illegal content monitoring on YouTube
Seoul: Google’s video-sharing platform YouTube will cooperate with South Korea to closely monitor and prevent the spread of fake news and illegal content. Google’s Senior Vice President Neal Mohan made the comments during…
- Top Stories
Editor arrested for carrying COVID-19 fake news against KCR
Hyderabad: In a swift operation a team of Jubilee Hills police on Monday morning arrested an Editor of vernacular Telugu daily for allegedly carrying a report claiming of Chief Minister Telangana contracting…
- News
Google brings fact-check label to images in Search
San Francisco: To help users decide whether they should believe what they see, Google has started showing a fact-check label under the thumbnail image results that people search. “When you tap one…
- Top Stories
WhatsApp chatbot now in Hindi to curb Covid-19 fake news
New Delhi: The International Fact-Checking Network, a unit of the Poynter Institute, on Thursday launched the Hindi version of its global chatbot for WhatsApp to fight misinformation about Covid-19. The service was previously…
- News
GHMC Dy Mayor asks police to file FIR against local news outlets
Hyderabad: Today, a clip claiming that the GHMC Deputy Mayor Baba Fasiuddin and two corporators have been tested positive for coronavirus is being widely circulated on social media. However, that clip turned…
- News
Complaint against News18 anchor for fake news on Muslims
MUMBAI: A police complaint has been filed against News18’s TV anchor Amish Devgan for spreading false news against Muslims. The complaint was filed by Shahzad Khan, the founding member of Public Care…
- News
TikTok’s #MatKarForward aims to curb spread of fake news
NEW DELHI: Short video platform TikTok on Monday said it is launching a new campaign, urging users to be extremely careful with the content they create and share online to ensure that…
- Kashmir
FIR against 2 journalists in Kashmir for fake news
Srinagar: After photojournalist Masrat Zehra was booked under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) the Jammu & Kashmir Police has registered a case against another journalist Peerzada Ashiq. A police statement said on Monday…
- News
Electronic, social media not under jurisdiction:PCI on Fake news
New Delhi: Replying to the complaint against unverified and fake news telecast on electronic media, news channels’ by their anchors and editors and their micro blogging handle, Press Council of India said…
- India
WHO confirmed ‘protocol’ on COVID-19 lockdown is fake
NEW DELHI: A post has been shared multiple times on Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter by India-based users alongside a claim that the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued guidelines on COVID-19 lockdown.…
- World
Fact check: Scores of peacocks poisoned in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: Two photos purported to show dead peacocks have been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts claiming the birds were poisoned by farmers in Sri Lanka. The images have been shared in a…
- India
ANI reports fake news about Tablighi Jamaat, DCP refutes claim
Misinformation regarding COVID-19 has peaked since the Tablighi Jamaat markaz in Delhi’s Nizamuddin emerged as one of the hotspots of the outbreak. On April 7, 2020, news agency ANI tweeted quoting the…
- India
Fact Check: Are Muslims sneezing in unison to spread Corona?
Ever since Delhi’s Markaz Nizamuddin was identified as a coronavirus hotspot, several old and unrelated videos showing the Muslim community in poor light are being circulated on social media. In a deliberate…
- India
Zee News expresses regret for linking false report with Tablighi
Amid fake news pandemic sweeping across the nation, Zee News aired yet another unverified and false report on the novel coronavirus or COVID-19 and linked it to Tablighis who have become a…
- News
483 Corona Warriors to fight fake news in Dakshnina Kannada
Mangaluru:A group of netizens in Dakshina Kannada district has formed an anti-fake news team during the coronavirus outbreak, calling themselves DK Corona Warriors. The team comprises 483 volunteers registered with the department…
- Bangalore News
Beware of fake news, warns Yediyurappa
Bengaluru: Spreading false news is punishable, do not trust unauthorized news, appealed Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Thursday. “Spreading false news is punishable. Do not trust unauthorized news,” tweeted Yediyurappa sharing a…
- Delhi
Tablighi Jamat:JUH moves SC seeking end to spread of ‘fake news’
New Delhi: Alleging that a section of the media is spreading communal hatred over last month’s Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind has moved the Supreme Court seeking directions to…
- News
With Tablighi in spotlight, fake news targeting Muslims abounds
SHAWN SEBASTIAN Since 30 March, when news broke that six attendees at the Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic religious gathering in Delhi’s Nizamuddin locality, had died of COVID-19, fact-checking websites have reported a…
- World
Fake news pandemic surges on Facebook, Twitter
New York: In novel coronavirus times, there is so much fake news going around and according to new research, there’s a price to pay when you get your news and political information from…
