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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicFake news

Topic: fake news

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.

CRPF asks people not to share fake images that spread hate

Officials said many photographs of soldier with badly mutilated bodies were being circulated on various social media platforms.

On Camera

What a Tamil town tells us about votes, caste, and fraud in medieval India

Nepotism seems to have been a concern in Uttaramerur elections. That's why the drawing of ballots was done by a child and executives' relatives were banned from being elected.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?