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Fact-checking

  • Social media’s wildfire information spread is fuelling political violence – how can it be stopped?

    Social media’s wildfire information spread is fuelling political violence – how can it be stopped?

    Richard Forno, The Conversation
    · Jul 28, 2024 · 10:00 pm
  • Why a government-run ‘fact-checking’ unit has been stayed by the Supreme Court

    Why a government-run ‘fact-checking’ unit has been stayed by the Supreme Court

    Vineet Bhalla
    · Mar 24, 2024 · 06:30 am
  • Bombay HC delivers split verdict on pleas challenging government’s fact-checking unit

    Bombay HC delivers split verdict on pleas challenging government’s fact-checking unit

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 31, 2024 · 07:30 pm
  • Tamil Nadu government to form fact-checking unit to counter disinformation against it

    Tamil Nadu government to form fact-checking unit to counter disinformation against it

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 02, 2023 · 09:41 am
  • IT rules need to be removed if its effects are unconstitutional, says Bombay HC

    IT rules need to be removed if its effects are unconstitutional, says Bombay HC

    Scroll Staff
    · Jul 07, 2023 · 11:53 am
  • Complex challenge of extreme speech online can only be tackled if multiple stakeholders collaborate

    Complex challenge of extreme speech online can only be tackled if multiple stakeholders collaborate

    Elonnai Hickok Sahana Udupa
    · Jun 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm
  • ‘We have learned a lesson’: Facebook says it’s trying to tackle spread of misinformation in India

    ‘We have learned a lesson’: Facebook says it’s trying to tackle spread of misinformation in India

    Durba Ghosh, qz.com
    · Nov 03, 2018 · 01:30 pm
  • Darkness in Jama Masjid, conversion rate card and 10 more fake news stories spread by media in 2017

    Darkness in Jama Masjid, conversion rate card and 10 more fake news stories spread by media in 2017

    Sam Jawed, altnews.in
    · Jan 04, 2018 · 12:30 pm