Fake news

Mind your 'Twitter' language as stereotypes reveal your identity: Study

Whether nice language or rude, your Twitter words give out your nationality, personality traits and even filter whether your messages are trustworthy or not.

Nov 26, 2018

Bengaluru City Police collaborates with IBTimes to train officers fight fake news

The session on fake news verification & fact-checking was conducted by the Editorial Director of International Business Times Danish Manzoor in collaboration with Bengaluru city police.

Nov 3, 2018

Real or Fake? Man claims to have heard the voice of God in near-death experience

Even though spiritualists consider visual hallucinations during NDE a strong proof of an afterlife, medical experts state that it is the survival technique of brain

Oct 25, 2018

Facebook on expansion spree, to open office in Bengaluru

Facebook's expansion underlines the growing importance of India, which has nearly 250 million users, one of the largest in the world.

Oct 22, 2018

UFO spotted in broad daylight in Mexico; Could it be a flying plastic bag?

Conspiracy theorists believe that the UFO appeared in the skies of Mexico is an irrefutable evidence of alien life

Oct 20, 2018

A news producer sits inside a news studio

Artificial Intelligence can spot fake, biased news article right from its source

A new program developed by researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in collaboration with the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) aims to not only look at individual news stories but also their sources.

Oct 4, 2018

Facebook appoints Adam Mosseri as Instagram head

Mosseri replaces Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger who abruptly announced their departure in September.

Oct 2, 2018

Gujarat govt toughens stance on mob lynching, fake news; now comes under IPC Section 153(A)

CM Vijay Rupani-led government also clarified that it was acting on the Supreme Court's directive issued on July 17 in which the top court had stated that nobody can take law in their own hands.

Sep 16, 2018

Fake news of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's ashes being sold on amazon going viral

Atal Bihari Vajpayee's ashes being sold on Amazon? Here's the truth

A fake picture suggesting that Atal Bihari Vajpayee's ashes being available for sale on Amazon has been doing rounds on Whatsapp and social media.

Sep 1, 2018

WhatsApp rejects India's request to build a software to track messages; cites user privacy

The Indian government wants the messaging app to develop a software that can trace the origin of a message.

Aug 24, 2018

Schools in Kerala's Kannur are teaching children to spot fake news

Officials in Kannur are organising special 'Fake News Classes' for school children so that students can learn how to spot a hoax message.

Aug 24, 2018

Cristiano Ronaldo donating Rs 77 crore for Kerala flood relief a hoax?

Reports claim that Ronaldo's social media accounts have no mention of any donation or message regarding the floods.

Aug 22, 2018

Shah Rukh Khan's daughter Suhana Khan trolled as her fake quote on Vogue photoshoot goes viral

Screenshots of the fake quote of Suhana Khan are being shared on social media, without mentioning it to be a piece of fiction. The fake quote stated about Shah Rukh Khan's daughter narrating how she had to go for the Vogue photoshoot in an Audi car as her Jaguar broke down.

Aug 16, 2018

BJP president Amit Shah addresses at "Prabudhajan Sammelan" in Noida, Uttar Pradesh on June 30, 2016.

Amit Shah added to Delhi BJP's 1,800 WhatsApp groups to combat fake news

As the BJP gears up for the 2019 general election, the Delhi unit has created 1,800 WhatsApp groups which Amit Shah has joined in a bid to combat the spread of fake news within the party.

Jul 22, 2018

Facebook targets fake news; says it will take down content that promotes violence

After coming under fire from several South Asian countries, the social media giant is considering removing any post that instigates violence in a tie-up with third parties.

Jul 19, 2018

Twitter suspends over 70 million accounts in two months to fight fake news

Twitter Inc suspended more than one million accounts a day in recent months to reduce the flow of misinformation on the platform, the Washington Post reported.

Jul 7, 2018

Google to train 8,000 journalists to sniff out fake news

The focus of the training will be fact-checking, online verification and digital hygiene for journalists.

Jun 20, 2018

Firefox browser maker Mozilla to combat fake news

West Bengal govt planning strict rules to rein in rise of fake news

The state and city police are constantly keeping a tight watch on fake news posted across different social media platforms. The social media teams of West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police are also tracking all illegitimate or provocative posts on social media.

Jun 15, 2018

Assam: 23 held for lynching, 26 for misuse of social media

About 23 people have been held for the lynching of two youths in Kabri Anglong last week. Government plans to introduce a new programme to combat social media rumours.

Jun 12, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at F8 conference

Facebook teams up with ABC, Fox News, CNN: Social networking with a dose of news

New partnership will allow news leading news outlets like ABC, Fox News and CNN and to create monetised news shows for the social networking site under the 'Facebook Journalism Project.'

Jun 8, 2018

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