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Monday, November 4, 2024
TopicOnline misinformation

Topic: Online misinformation

Google launches anti-misinformation project in India to prevent violence

The initiative will use 'prebunking' videos – designed to counter false claims before they become widespread – circulated on the company's YouTube platform and other social media sites.

Health to politics — world’s ‘information pollution’ is increasing. Media needs a purge

Leaders in the public and private spheres agree that the spread of misinformation and digital propaganda is an incredibly difficult challenge.

SubscriberWrites: In a world rife with misinformation & manipulation, it is time to become critical readers

Readers need to be careful about what they read and hear because of the farrago of information and misinformation in circulation, writes Satyam Choudhary.

India, US and China generating most Covid-related rumours, study says

Study says misinformation, rumours, stigma and conspiracy theories related to Covid pandemic have been spreading in at least 25 languages in 87 countries.

How Ramdev’s Coronil makes social media’s fight against misinformation more difficult

Even as Modi govt asked Patanjali to stop advertising Coronil as a Covid 'cure', platforms did little to stop misleading hashtags, or remove health misinformation.

Twitter is working on new feature to flag fake news shared by ‘politicians, public figures’

The new feature will have red and orange badges for tweets considered ‘harmfully misleading’. Misleading information will also be corrected by verified fact-checkers.

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.

On Camera

Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.