Minister for State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan said the government is very much concerned about the freedom of speech and fr...

In February last year, ahead of India's general elections, Facebook had expanded its third-party fact-checking programme by adding five new...

Facebook has submitted before the high court that it cannot remove any allegedly illegal group, like the bois locker room, from its platfor...

Facebook started a pilot fact-checking program in Karnataka last year through a partnership with fact-checking portal Boom, followed by one...

The plea, which seeks to weed out the duplicate, fake and ghost social media accounts, wants the government to link the profiles on such pl...

"Nearly 62 per cent of the population believes that the upcoming elections will be influenced by the misinformation that the users are rece...

Facebook said its investigation found that individuals used fake accounts and joined various groups to disseminate their content and increa...

The EU executive also criticised Twitter for failing to provide benchmarks to measure its progress on monitoring political ads.

Facebook actively remove fake accounts and disrupt economic incentives.

WhatsApp has been at the centre of controversy last year after false messages sparked mob lynchings.

The CEO has also been asked to seek action against unnamed persons and entities under relevant laws to prevent rumour-mongering, official s...

Beyond Fake News is the British public broadcaster's new international anti-disinformation initiative, looking at highlighting the problems...

Facebook, which in April this year had partnered with BOOM, said the move will "bolster" its ongoing efforts to "clamp down on manipulated ...

Earlier this year, the Commission told the tech industry, including Facebook and Google, and the advertising industry to draft a code of pr...

Sources said the Facebook self-verification system would subject content that is circulated beyond a point to automatic fact-checking.

Experts are sceptical about the extent to which AI tools could be effective in curbing fake news, given that Facebook’s AI engine is primar...

Facebook cited stories about dinosaur sightings and research supposedly proving the existence of Santa Claus as examples of fake news stori...