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Sunday, March 8, 2026
TopicFake news

Topic: fake news

Madhya Pradesh IAS officers deny using AI-generated images to win National Water Award amid row

Khandwa District Collector Rishav Gupta and District Panchayat CEO Dr Nagarjun B. Gowda have dismissed the row as fake and generated by confusion over portal.

Need to clearly define ‘fake news’, revisit IT Act’s ‘safe harbour’ clause—parliamentary panel

Standing Committee on Communications and IT stresses that definition of fake news should maintain the 'delicate balance' between curbing false information and protecting freedom of speech.

In Bihar villages, children are learning to fight fake news. Study shows classrooms help

More than 13,500 adolescents across 583 villages participated in the experiment, discovering how to engage their families in conversations about truth and myth.

Karnataka’s new misinformation bill can penalise social media users for honest mistakes

The bill criminalises speech that is factually incorrect and imposes unusually harsh penalties. Spreading fake news could get you the same prison time as that for kidnapping.

When nuisance replaces news sense & coming together of the Cousins Thackeray

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Global support for press freedom high, but only 28% feel media Is truly free, finds Pew survey

Analysis, based on nationally representative surveys from 35 countries—along with additional data from US—examines public opinion on freedom of speech, press, and internet.

Fact check: RSS leader attended Delhi iftar party before Nagpur violence, not after

RSS leader Indresh Kumar's picture is viral with a false claim that he attended an iftar party hours after communal violence broke out in Nagpur, Maharashtra on 17 March 2025.

Fact Check: This viral video of attack is from Bangladesh Sufi shrine, not India temple

The incident of vandalism was reported at the Rahim Baba shrine in Dinajpur district of Bangladesh.

Fact Check: Telangana CM Revanth Reddy did not pay tribute to his govt’s 6 guarantees

A viral image shows Reddy with folded hands before a garlanded '6 Guarantees' frame. The original photo shows him paying tribute to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

Zootopia & a misinformation miscommunication

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

A ship attack has shaken Asia’s faith in the US

Why should the US care? Because in the end, as its wrangle with Britain this week should have reminded them, America still needs bases, friendly ports, & overfly rights.

Amid the new war in Middle East, ‘God’ surfaces in oil and commodities contracts

Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.

Iranian naval ship Lavan with crew of 184 docked in Kochi same day US torpedoed IRIS Dena

IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.