Rs 40 lakh return from Rs 22,000 investment? How ‘Quantum AI’ scam is misusing Nirmala Sitharaman’s name to lure investorsQuantum AI scam: A viral message falsely claims Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is promoting a 'Quantum AI' investment scheme. It promi...
06 May, 2026, 03.38 PM IST
Did Iran just destroy a US-Israel ‘weather weapon’, ending its drought? Viral conspiracy explainedPro-Iranian accounts on X claim Iran's weather has drastically improved after allegedly destroying a UAE cloud-seeding center, leading to h...
24 Apr, 2026, 02.52 PM IST
Kumar Vishwas calls out Bollywood: ‘Dhurandhar isn’t propaganda; it’s miscasting Kabir in Chak De & portraying Narad as sly’Poet Kumar Vishwas has sparked a debate on X, accusing Bollywood of propaganda by misrepresenting Hindu narratives while glorifying Sufi tr...
21 Apr, 2026, 12.21 PM IST
Is NBA Ben 10 dead? Houston club shooting leaves NBA youngboy associate critically injured, family denies death rumors – full updateRapper NBA Ben 10 was hurt in a Houston nightclub shooting that shocked fans. Online rumors wrongly said he died, but family confirmed he i...
09 Apr, 2026, 06.41 PM IST
Trump hospitalised? Debunking Trump’s motorcade video signaling President’s release from the hospital in widely circulating footageA video circulating online suggested Donald Trump was hospitalized. Fact-checkers confirmed the footage is from 2024, not a recent event. T...
05 Apr, 2026, 11.47 AM IST
This is cool: Elon Musk on Mark Zuckerberg's decision to end fact-checking on FacebookMeta has ended its US fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram. Instead, it will implement community notes similar to the model used...
08 Jan, 2025, 03.42 PM IST
Google’s vision on fact-check, misinformation aligned with government intent: Google India head Sanjay GuptaGoogle India country manager and vice president Sanjay Gupta said the company will meet the government's requirement around fact-checking.
04 May, 2023, 11.01 PM IST
Fake BSF Twitter account deleted as Centre activates its fact check unit, force writes to micro-blogging siteThe Twitter handle was deleted within 24 hours after the fact check unit under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) declared ...
07 Sep, 2022, 03.22 PM IST
Twitter expands Birdwatch, its crowdsourced fact check pilotThe program lets regular people flag and notate misleading tweets. This is separate from Twitter's news verification partnerships with The ...
04 Mar, 2022, 09.07 AM IST
UP Police says getting a lot of complaints against Twitter IndiaTwitter needs skilled in-house hands or external experts to sift out misinformation in order to avert further trouble with the police and a...
18 Jun, 2021, 10.14 AM IST
Twitter Birdwatch unveiled to help users fact check misinformationTwitter Birdwatch is on a separate section of the social media platform, and only pilot participants, who apply to the program, will write ...
26 Jan, 2021, 04.47 AM IST
Donald Trump's social media diktat may not shift India’s standIndia has been facing a challenge of misinformation on a large scale and has had to deal with situations such as mob lynching due to unchec...
30 May, 2020, 02.29 PM IST
‘Leave our employees out of this’: Jack Dorsey responds to Donald Trump, says US Prez fact-check does not make Twitter ‘arbiter of truth’The face-off between Twitter and US President Donald Trump is likely to escalate.
28 May, 2020, 12.33 PM IST
Donald Trump threatens to shut social media companies after Twitter fact checkPresident Donald Trump threatened to regulate or shutter social media companies — a warning apparently aimed at Twitter Inc after it began ...
28 May, 2020, 12.11 AM IST
For the first time, Twitter labels Trump tweets with a fact checkThe tech giant put a warning label under two posts by Donald Trump.
27 May, 2020, 02.22 PM IST
Twitter is 'interfering' in US election, 'stifling' free speech, alleges TrumpOn Tuesday, Twitter added a warning phrase to Trump's tweet that called mail-in ballots "fraudulent" and predicted that "mail boxes will be...
27 May, 2020, 10.00 AM IST
Facebook offers to curb fake news during 2019 Lok Sabha pollsSources said the Facebook self-verification system would subject content that is circulated beyond a point to automatic fact-checking.
07 Jul, 2018, 10.45 AM IST