Factchecking

The government will not constitute its Fact Check Unit (FCU) to identify and tag fake news till July 28 as it is expected to make its arguments in the case related to the FCU on July 27 and 28 in the Bombay High Court, it was decided in the…

Laws of the land should be followed and there is a lot of alignment in Google's vision and the government's proposed rules around misinformation, a senior Google official said on Thursday. Google India country manager and vice president…

Sixteen organisations including Amnesty International, Access Now and Human Rights Watch issued a joint statement against the latest amendments to the Information Technology (IT) Rules of 2022, under which the government proposes to set up…

Amid the debate over the government forming a fact-checking unit to curb the flow of misinformation on various social media platforms, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Saturday said there are no…

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc will expand its community fact-checking project called Birdwatch, the social media company said on Wednesday, deepening its novel approach to a new form of content moderation. Birdwatch launched in January last year,…

Twitter announced on Wednesday that it is bringing several new additions to its Birdwatch community fact-checking programme that was launched last year. The Birdwatch programme consists of users who help identify potentially misleading…

Spotify has been rocked in recent weeks by the controversy engulfing its most popular podcaster, Joe Rogan.Several prominent musicians and podcasters have left the streaming service to protest what they described as Mr. Rogan’s history of…

Aaron Rodgers has come under fire recently after testing positive for COVID-19 despite previous claims that he was "immunized," only to find out that did not mean vaccinated. On Friday, he started firing back. Speaking on the Pat…

image source, Getty Imagesimage captionPresident Bolsonaro spoke on the first day of the UN General Assembly meetingPresident Bolsonaro of Brazil, the first head of state to address this year's UN General Assembly in New York, made a number…