War without borders: The rise of cyberattacks beyond the battlefieldCyber conflict has escalated beyond borders following US-Israeli strikes on Iran, with hacktivists and state-backed actors launching global...
10 May, 2026, 09.04 PM IST
HC protects MP Shashi Tharoor's personality rights, directs removal of deepfake videoThe Delhi High Court has protected Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's personality rights. The court ordered X to remove an AI-generated deepfake ...
10 May, 2026, 12.14 PM IST
French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over allegations of child abuse images and deepfakes on XElon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to Paris for "voluntary interviews" regarding allegations of child sexual abu...
20 Apr, 2026, 10.57 AM IST
French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over allegations of child abuse images, deepfakes on XElon Musk faces scrutiny in Paris. Investigators are probing allegations of misconduct on his social media platform X. This includes the sp...
20 Apr, 2026, 10.43 AM IST
Chatbots at the ballot box: AI skirts Brazil election rulesBrazil's electoral court banned AI chatbots from offering voting tips for the upcoming presidential election, aiming to prevent disinformat...
16 Apr, 2026, 11.38 AM IST
AI chatbots offer children harm as if it were help, says activistAI chatbots present grave risks, especially to children, offering personalised harm. A watchdog warns that these systems can exploit a chil...
10 Apr, 2026, 06.36 PM IST
AI fakes about Iran-US war swirl on X despite policy crackdownAI-created videos circulating on Elon Musk's X depict American soldiers captured by Iran, an Israeli city in ruins, and US embassies ablaze...
15 Mar, 2026, 10.05 AM IST
AI fakes about Iran-US war swirl on X despite policy crackdownElon Musk's X is struggling to control AI-generated war videos. Lifelike deepfakes showing captured soldiers and destroyed cities are circu...
15 Mar, 2026, 07.03 AM IST
AI-generated disinformation tactics spotted ahead of COP30A clip said to show massive flooding in the Amazonian city hosting the UN climate summit is just one widely-shared example of how disinform...
06 Nov, 2025, 03.45 PM IST
Meta says no sign of AI bedeviling elections in 2024Meta says that most of the cover influence operations it has disrupted in recent years were carried out by actors from Russia, Iran and Chi...
04 Dec, 2024, 08.30 AM IST
Lingo Telecom agrees to $1 million fine over AI-generated Biden robocallsThe Federal Communications Commission said Lingo transmitted spoofed robocalls that used generative artificial intelligence voice-cloning t...
22 Aug, 2024, 10.08 AM IST
Japan's Fumio Kishida unveils a framework for global regulation of generative AIKishida made the announcement in a speech at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
03 May, 2024, 09.33 AM IST
Meta to set up team to counter disinformation, AI abuse in EU electionsThe rapid growth of generative AI, which can create text, images and video in seconds in response to prompts, has triggered fears that the ...
26 Feb, 2024, 10.44 AM IST
Election wave and AI disinformation raise stakes in 2024With elections due in countries representing half the world's population and new technologies turbo-charging disinformation, 2024 will be a...
19 Jan, 2024, 12.05 PM IST
All about deepfake tech: AI-powered videos intensify debate on disinformation epidemicThe government stepped in with an advisory to major social media companies to identify misinformation, deepfakes and other content that vio...
11 Nov, 2023, 01.51 PM IST
Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformationEU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said the ability of a new generation of AI chatbots to create complex content and visuals in seco...
06 Jun, 2023, 11.44 AM IST
AI generated content should be labelled, EU Commissioner Vera Jourova saysCompanies such as Google, Microsoft and Meta Platforms that have signed up to the EU Code of Practice to tackle disinformation should repor...
05 Jun, 2023, 07.14 PM IST