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Sunday, November 16, 2025
TopicFake news

Topic: fake news

WhatsApp launches ‘Checkpoint Tipline’ to tackle fake news

WhatsApp is looking to create a database of rumours to study the spread of misinformation ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Twitter removes misleading tweet on indelible ink after Election Commission’s alert

The commission had written to Twitter saying its team has identified a mischievous and misleading fake news which should immediately be brought down.

Facebook had cracked down on Bangladeshi ad farm targetting Utah before U.S. midterms

Part of efforts to prevent 'meddling' in elections, social media giant promises to better monitor content ahead of elections in India, Philippines, Ukraine and Thailand.

RJD posts Karachi railway track picture to blunt BJP’s claims of cleaning up Ganga

The Clean Ganga mission was one of the flagship initiatives of the Modi government that has promised to achieve it by 2020.

Facebook, Twitter, Tik Tok to have separate link detailing expenditure on poll ads

The social media giants are part of 6 firms, along with WhatsApp, Google & Sharechat, that agreed to make political ad spending public.

India’s plan to fight fake news before elections is all wrong

India's draft regulations to tackle fake news propose to impose drastic if not impossible obligations on social media platforms.

Cyber security can seem scary, but really it’s a source of hope

Technology users see cyber threats as economic disablers and cybersecurity as an economic burden.

BJP leader of opposition in Delhi tweets fake poster of Kejriwal with abusive language

Vijender Gupta Saturday tweeted a poster of Kejriwal seeking votes but photoshopped the word jhaadu (broom), the AAP’s poll symbol, for an expletive.

Pakistani ‘security expert’ Twitter handle uses old images to fuel tension

The handle/blog tried to pass off images from 2014 and 2016 as present-day troop build-up. The images are actually of a well-known artillery gun position.

Viral video of IAF strike on Balakot is actually from a video game

The video claiming to be a snippet of the Indian strike in Pakistan Tuesday has been sourced from a military simulation video game.

On Camera

What Pakistan Supreme Court judge Mansoor Ali Shah wrote in his resignation letter

The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.