Fake News

More fact-checking, dedicated teams: Facebook details strategy to curb misinformation during polls

Scroll Staff
· Apr 08, 2019 · 09:50 pm
One story told 12 times: Magnum photographer Sohrab Hura’s book explores rising violence in India

Chanpreet Khurana
· Apr 04, 2019 · 11:30 am
RRB JE recruitment: Exam date announcement fake, report

Scroll Staff
· Apr 04, 2019 · 10:31 am
Twitter refuses to carry France government campaign fearing country’s new fake news law

Scroll Staff
· Apr 03, 2019 · 10:26 pm
The big news: Arun Jaitley claims Congress manifesto is unimplementable, and 9 other top stories

Scroll Staff
· Apr 03, 2019 · 08:39 am
WhatsApp launches new fact-checking service to fight fake news ahead of elections

Scroll Staff
· Apr 02, 2019 · 10:21 pm
Explainer: Why did Facebook take down hundreds of BJP and Congress-linked pages?

Shoaib Daniyal
· Apr 02, 2019 · 01:49 pm
Fact check: Images of James Bond actress Ursula Andress being passed off as photos of Sonia Gandhi

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
· Mar 25, 2019 · 04:57 pm
Does DMK manifesto have different ideas for encroached temple, Wakf land, as Madhu Kishwar claims?

Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in
· Mar 22, 2019 · 04:16 pm
Fact check: Is this really a photo of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed with Islamic State fighters?

Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in
· Mar 20, 2019 · 05:30 pm
Facebook’s fact checkers: Post-Pulwama, three out of seven partners have shared misinformation

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
· Mar 19, 2019 · 01:45 pm
Russia: Vladimir Putin imposes penalties for insults to state symbols, publishing ‘fake news’

Scroll Staff
· Mar 19, 2019 · 11:19 am
Bhakt, mitron, demonetisation: 10 words or phrases that entered our dictionaries with the Modi era

Harish C Menon, qz.com
· Mar 14, 2019 · 01:30 pm
Lok Sabha polls: All political ads on social media will need prior certification, says ECI

Scroll Staff
· Mar 10, 2019 · 06:48 pm
CBSE files FIRs against those circulating ‘fake news’ about question paper leak on social media

Scroll Staff
· Mar 08, 2019 · 04:54 pm
Why WhatsApp could play a more potent role in India’s elections than it has in other countries

Lipika Kamra, The Conversation Philippa Williams, The Conversation
· Mar 05, 2019 · 01:30 pm
Fact check: Manufactured audio clip used to falsely claim Pulwama terror attack an inside job by BJP

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
· Mar 02, 2019 · 06:00 pm
Fact check: Pakistani media uses 2016 image from Jodhpur to show Indian Air Force jet was shot down

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
· Feb 27, 2019 · 04:02 pm
More than Facebook or WhatsApp, fake news on traditional media can sway Indians, finds study

Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com
· Feb 24, 2019 · 01:30 pm
As politicians look away, a nation feeding on social media becomes fertile ground for radicalisation

Samar Halarnkar
· Feb 24, 2019 · 08:00 am