Fake News

Watch actor Bill Hader turn into Tom Cruise and Seth Rogan in a terrifying deepfake video

Scroll Staff
· Aug 14, 2019 · 12:41 pm
That ‘Kashmiri woman’ happy at scrapping of 370 in the photo BJP MP Goel tweeted? It’s from 2014

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
· Aug 11, 2019 · 08:00 am
Pseudoscience is going viral on social media, putting us all at risk

Santosh Vijaykumar, The Conversation
· Aug 06, 2019 · 11:30 pm
Nigeria has shown that WhatsApp doesn’t only help spread fake news, but can also help fight it

Nic Cheeseman, The Conversation
· Jul 31, 2019 · 09:30 pm
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
· Jul 28, 2019 · 09:30 pm
Infocalypse now: How can media users protect themselves from the fake news superstorm?

Anurag Mehra
· Jul 26, 2019 · 06:30 am
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