- Garv se bolo, zor se bolo: We are loud!
If there is no fire, though, it would be another matter. Being voluble, though, is not to everyone's taste even in our decibels-tolerant cu...
01 Jul, 2022, 11.49 PM IST
Fact checkers suggest a four-step fix to YouTube’s misinformation problemFact checkers from over 40 countries have sent a letter to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, urging her to take at least four steps to stop the c...
13 Jan, 2022, 05.13 AM IST
Fact-checkers from India, elsewhere urge YouTube CEO to act against disinformationBOOM, Fact Crescendo, Factly, NewsMobile, The Healthy Indian Project (THIP), The Logical Indian and Vishvas News were among the Indian fact...
12 Jan, 2022, 07.44 PM IST
Facebook adds its first health fact-checking partner in IndiaFacebook said the move is aimed at combating Covid-19 and all other health-related misinformation on the platform
16 Jun, 2021, 05.36 PM IST
2020 was most volatile, chaotic for misinformation in India, says Facebook fact checkerFact Crescendo is among eight fact-checkers that Facebook has engaged in India, making it the country with the second most number of third-...
05 Feb, 2021, 10.16 AM IST
Vishva Hindu Parishad considering legal action against WSJ for its Facebook, Bajrang Dal reportIn a response to ET’s queries, a Facebook spokesperson said it bans individuals or entities after following a careful, rigorous, and multi-...
14 Dec, 2020, 08.27 PM IST
No vaccine yet for fake news epidemicFact checkers for Facebook and other social media platforms said the volume of fake news is rising following global Covid-19 vaccine trial ...
30 Nov, 2020, 08.32 AM IST
US elections 2020: Facebook India fact checker NewsMobile and UC Berkeley startup FakeNetAI to detect deep fakes on social mediaOther fact checkers said while Facebook has not issued any new guidelines or instructions to Indian fact checkers for the US elections and ...
30 Sep, 2020, 03.26 PM IST
It's upto Facebook to respond on its fact checking programme, say FB fact-checkers after IT minister raises concernsIn February last year, ahead of India's general elections, Facebook had expanded its third-party fact-checking programme by adding five new...
03 Sep, 2020, 07.16 PM IST
IFCN launches WhatsApp chatbot about COVID-19 in HindiWhatsApp has over 400 million users in India, where around 44 per cent of the population understands the Hindi language. The IFCN, therefor...
11 Jun, 2020, 10.55 PM IST
After rejig, Facebook users will get fake news alertsFacebook started a pilot fact-checking program in Karnataka last year through a partnership with fact-checking portal Boom, followed by one...
12 Dec, 2019, 08.01 AM IST
Facebook introduces fact checking in more local Indian languages, provides additional funding to partnersThe newest languages are Urdu and Punjabi. Before that it was Tamil and Gujarati. So Facebook now has 10 languages in which fact-checking h...
27 Apr, 2019, 08.26 AM IST
Facebook expands fact-checking network in India, adds 5 more partners to spot fake newsIt has also equipped checkers with tools to review photos and videos to "help identify and take action against more types of misinformation...
11 Feb, 2019, 03.02 PM IST
Tim Cook lands in India, offers prayers at Mumbai's Siddhivinayak templeCook was present for the entire kakad aarti and was accompanied by the company’s India head Sanjay Kaul and Anant Ambani.
19 May, 2016, 06.56 AM IST
- Pakistan tunnels near border worry government
Indian Intelligence agencies have brought to the govt's notice that Pak has been building tunnels in areas not far from the border.
25 Jan, 2010, 03.07 AM IST
- Rahul questions development plank
Political campaigning in Surat reached a crescendo here on Sunday as Congress star campaigner Rahul Gandhi took to the streets of the diamo...
10 Dec, 2007, 12.07 AM IST
- Snoring: Bad for both bed partners
When the soft little snores rise to a crescendo, the crescendo rises to a snort and the snort results in a gasp with abrupt cessation in br...
03 Jul, 2006, 02.53 AM IST