Fake News
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PIB sets up fact-checking unit to tackle spread of fake news related to government
Scroll Staff
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Video of woman brutally thrashing her daughter is from Jammu – not Pakistan
Jignesh Patel, AltNews.in
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Group that sponsored MEPs’ travel to J&K linked to India-based global fake news lobby network: NGO
Scroll Staff
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How BJP leaders and media outlets gave Murshidabad triple murder a political and communal colour
Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
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Fact check: Was a Pakistani conspiracy behind #GoBackModi trending as India Today, others claimed?
Pratik Sinha, AltNews.in Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
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Fake news more dangerous than paid news, causes deaths, says I&B minister Prakash Javadekar
Scroll Staff
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‘Technology has taken dangerous turn’: SC asks Centre to frame rules to check social media misuse
Scroll Staff
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Social media firms cannot escape liability for fake news spread on their platforms, says Madras HC
Scroll Staff
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Staged videos of child-lifters go viral on YouTube – and justify mob violence
Jignesh Patel, AltNews.in
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Fact check: Was a Mumbai traffic signal washed away in floods as video by Vivek Agnihotri claimed?
Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
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Image of Syria gas attack resurfaces to claim Indian children are being abducted, organs harvested
Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in
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Kerala students wrongly reported to have raised Pakistani flag in stories by Times Now, others
Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
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Imran Khan’s PTI party shares old videos from Kashmir claiming that they depict recent unrest
Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in
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Pakistan minister shares edited clip that falsely claims to show official brutality in Kashmir
Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
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Fact check: Did Rahul Gandhi chomp down on samosas as he did an aerial survey of flood-hit Wayanad?
Jignesh Patel, AltNews.in
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Watch actor Bill Hader turn into Tom Cruise and Seth Rogan in a terrifying deepfake video
Scroll Staff
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That ‘Kashmiri woman’ happy at scrapping of 370 in the photo BJP MP Goel tweeted? It’s from 2014
Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
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Pseudoscience is going viral on social media, putting us all at risk
Santosh Vijaykumar, The Conversation
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Nigeria has shown that WhatsApp doesn’t only help spread fake news, but can also help fight it
Nic Cheeseman, The Conversation
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What is the Mandela effect? And why is it cited to explain the unlikely election of Donald Trump?
Neil Dagnall and Ken Drinkwater, The Conversation