Lies, now open sourced: India-Pakistan conflict puts spotlight on open-source intelligence and credibility problemOpen-source intelligence (OSINT), intended to empower individuals with accessible information, faces challenges due to misinformation and p...
18 May, 2025, 12.05 AM IST
Government may warn against DeepSeek over China’s data tracking risksWorldwide, several governments including Italy and Australia along with US federal agencies have already banned the use of DeepSeek on offi...
11 Feb, 2025, 01.14 PM IST
WhatsApp group admins must now pay to operate in this African countryZimbabwe has announced a new regulation requiring all WhatsApp group administrators to register with the government and obtain a license fo...
09 Nov, 2024, 01.56 PM IST
EU presses Meta on plans after disinformation tracker axedMeta has been criticised on both sides of the Atlantic over the decision to shut down CrowdTangle -- a feature considered vital by research...
17 Aug, 2024, 10.03 AM IST
Conspiracy theorists and their obsession with the US Presidential Elections, here's what they are doing nowWith the US Presidential Elections currently being the most talked about event in recent times, conspiracy theorists have been at work, car...
08 Aug, 2024, 06.46 PM IST
Meta adds safety features to CrowdTangle in bid to address EU concernsThe U.S. social media platform last week said candidates for next month's polls will be shown a notification at the top of their feed in Fa...
27 May, 2024, 11.49 PM IST
Deepfake videos, audio detection: Best ways to check AI-generated contentAI-generated video and audio content has become a massive problem ad it's high time that audience must differentiate between the viral and ...
04 Apr, 2024, 10.47 PM IST
'Grave step backwards': Meta shuts monitoring tool in election yearCrowdTangle has been a game-changer for years, offering researchers and journalists crucial real-time transparency into the spread of consp...
02 Apr, 2024, 11.00 AM IST
Govt, companies must team up to counter AI misinformation during polls: Adobe’s Dana RaoAddressing AI-generated misinformation is an urgent global threat. Collaboration between governments and the tech industry, setting standar...
04 Mar, 2024, 01.59 PM IST
Detecting deepfakes should not be the sole responsibility of platforms: Sam GregorySam Gregory, executive director of Witness, a global human rights organisation, which uses video and technology to expose human rights abus...
03 Mar, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
Google develops AI prototype to spot misinformation, abusive content onlineGoogle on Thursday said it has developed a prototype that leverages recent advances in Large Language Models, or LLMs, to assist in identif...
26 Oct, 2023, 10.13 PM IST
Israel-Gaza conflict: when social media fakes are rampant, news verification is vitalThe rise of misinformation and fake videos surrounding the Israel-Hamas conflict highlights the importance of verification efforts by journ...
14 Oct, 2023, 11.33 AM IST
AI-generated content discovered on news sites, content farms and product reviewsDozens of fringe news websites, content farms and fake reviewers are using artificial intelligence to create inauthentic content online, ac...
20 May, 2023, 12.20 PM IST
AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead voters: 'We're not prepared for this'The implications for the 2024 campaigns and elections are as large as they are troubling: Generative AI can not only rapidly produce target...
14 May, 2023, 05.41 PM IST
How AI-powered tools, deepfakes pose a misinformation challenge for Internet usersIndia is already fighting a flood of misinformation in different Indic languages. This will worsen with different AI bots and tools driving...
19 Mar, 2023, 01.46 PM IST
YouTube channels making money from ads, memberships amplify Trump voting fraud claimsReuters found the channels, ranging from ones with 1,000 followers to more than 629,000, endorsing claims that fact-checking units of the A...
06 Nov, 2020, 10.47 AM IST
Novel tool to monitor fake news on Facebook, TwitterNewsWhip, a social media engagement tracking firm, collects URLs on hundreds of thousands of sites every day.
28 Oct, 2018, 01.43 PM IST