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Fake news
The Mueller hearing proves that in a post-truth world, feelings have more weight than evidence
Lee McIntyre, The Conversation
· Jul 25, 2019 · 11:30 pm
‘Mad’ magazine may be closing, but its satirical humour and calling out of fake news is still needed
Michael J Socolow, The Conversation
· Jul 13, 2019 · 12:30 pm
Governments around the world are criminalising fake news. Why is that bad news?
Alana Schetzer, The Conversation
· Jul 10, 2019 · 11:30 pm
Why Irad Kimhi is the contemporary philosopher we must read in the age of fake news
Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi
· Jul 07, 2019 · 08:30 am
Fact check: Did Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra plagiarise her speech as Zee News claimed?
Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
· Jul 04, 2019 · 09:49 am
Facebook and YouTube to take action against medical misinformation on their platforms
Scroll Staff
· Jul 03, 2019 · 03:04 pm
TikTok video of man doing stunts atop car with Delhi Police sign earns contractor a legal notice
Scroll Staff
· Jun 27, 2019 · 10:12 pm
There’s no winning against fake news – but that doesn’t mean we should stop trying
Cailin O'Connor, Aeon
· Jun 25, 2019 · 09:30 pm
A taxonomy for misinformation: Why it is important to distinguish between its varied forms
Amber Sinha
· Jun 20, 2019 · 12:30 pm
It has been 70 years since Orwell wrote 1984. It may as well have been an essay on 2019
Stephen Groening, The Conversation
· Jun 19, 2019 · 08:30 am
Fact check: Has Andhra Pradesh chief minister appointed evangelist as head of Tirupati temple trust?
Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in
· Jun 17, 2019 · 04:40 pm
Fact check: Are 58% of NASA employees Indian, as a viral message claims?
Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in
· Jun 16, 2019 · 11:42 am
Watch: Guess who the victim of this deepfake video is – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself
Scroll Staff
· Jun 12, 2019 · 01:55 pm
As girl is murdered in Aligarh, social media rumours fuel the outrage
Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in
· Jun 07, 2019 · 09:23 am
Sri Lanka approves law to introduce five-year jail term, penalty to tackle fake news, hate speech
Scroll Staff
· Jun 06, 2019 · 02:10 pm
How an IAS officer’s sarcastic tweet about Gandhi’s killer became the target of mistaken outrage
AltNews.in
· Jun 05, 2019 · 02:59 pm
Hit by a spate of malicious viral videos, Gujarat school struggles to stop falling admissions
Nivedita Niranjankumar, BoomLive.in
· Jun 05, 2019 · 01:30 pm
The curious case of an Indian-run website taken down by Facebook for alleged links with Iran
Aria Thaker, qz.com
· May 31, 2019 · 01:30 pm
Wikipedia is being weaponised in the Indian election battle
Aria Thaker, qz.com
· May 17, 2019 · 01:30 pm
Educated Indians are more wary of technology’s role in spreading fake news, finds study
Aria Thaker, qz.com
· May 15, 2019 · 09:30 pm
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