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Saturday, August 16, 2025
TopicFake news

Topic: fake news

What’s the point of listening to Modi’s Independence Day speech if we’ve to fact check it?

We have become a nation that calls an attack on student-activist Umar Khalid a ‘publicity stunt’.

If India wants to stop fake news in 2019 elections, it can learn from Brazil

Comprova, a collective of 24 Brazilian newsrooms, will monitor and refute misinformation on WhatsApp in the run-up to elections. 

Facebook, Twitter blocked more than 700 URLs this year: Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

Centre says it had asked companies to prevent the proliferation of rumours and fake news on their platforms.

Ravi Shankar Prasad wants to curb fake news, but forgot to mention BJP IT cell

If the Modi government was serious about fake news it would adopt a no-tolerance policy on all fronts, including its own IT cells and party leaders.

Social media platforms must use technology to tackle fake news: Law minister

Centre also tells social media platforms to appoint grievance officers in India before whom complaints can be made.

We would be better off if we stop using the term ‘fake news’

The phrase “fake news” is a mess of conflicting meanings. It is nonsense – empty words.

Here’s what the world is doing to tackle fake news. India can learn

A guide for existing attempts to legislate against what can broadly be referred to as online misinformation.

After uproar on violence due to rumours, Facebook says it will start removing fake news

Facebook has drawn criticism for 'failing' to curb violence caused by rumours in Myanmar, India and Sri Lanka.

Lynch mobs say more about India than WhatsApp

Govt seeking accountability from a phone app is odd given ruling party politicians are spreading fake news. 

HoaXposed: Image of a Shanghai bridge is being shared as bridge in Varanasi on Facebook, Twitter

FB post claims Modi govt has built a new bridge in Varanasi, using a photo of Nanpu bridge in Shanghai. A Facebook post has claimed...

On Camera

SC’s stray dog order lit a match in Delhi. Are they a menace or companions?

The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

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?