TikTok to ramp up fight against fake news, covert influence ahead of EU electionsTiktok said the individual local language "election centres" build on work it first started in 2021, which accelerated last year when Greec...
14 Feb, 2024, 10.50 AM IST
'AI Obama' and fake newscasters: How AI audio is swarming TikTokSophisticated tools that use artificial intelligence (AI) to clone real voices and create AI puppets have become a new weapon in the online...
13 Oct, 2023, 12.03 PM IST
Malaysia says TikTok not fully compliant with local lawsShort video application TikTok has shown an unsatisfactory level of compliance with the laws of Malaysia, the country's communications mini...
12 Oct, 2023, 10.45 AM IST
Fewer people trust traditional media, more turn to TikTok for news: reportAccording to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism's annual Digital News Report, TikTok is the fastest-growing social network i...
14 Jun, 2023, 10.12 AM IST
One billion users, but trouble mounts for TikTokSeveral governments have banned the app from their equipment over fears that data could be viewed by officials in Beijing, and the United S...
16 Mar, 2023, 05.18 PM IST
Making deepfakes gets cheaper and easier thanks to AI"Yep that's fake," Huberman wrote on Twitter after seeing the ad, in which he appears to praise the coffee's testosterone-boosting potentia...
15 Mar, 2023, 10.27 PM IST
Meta, Google, Twitter pledge to better fight fake news or risk finesMore than 30 signatories including advertising bodies have signed up for the updated Code of Practice on disinformation, the European Commi...
16 Jun, 2022, 04.54 PM IST
TikTok owner ByteDance 'scraped' content from Instagram, SnapchatByteDance allegedly took videos, usernames, pictures and more from the social media platforms and uploaded them to the app without users' c...
05 Apr, 2022, 10.48 AM IST
TikTok suspends livestreaming, new uploads in RussiaTikTok said it would suspend live-streaming and the uploading of videos to its platform in Russia as it reviews the implications of a new m...
07 Mar, 2022, 10.04 AM IST
TikTok India social handles active but losing followersThe higher activity levels come at a time when there have been media reports that Oracle Corp has ousted Microsoft to emerge as the preferr...
25 May, 2021, 02.10 PM IST
Facebook, Twitter, Google to report monthly on fake news fight, EU saysFacebook, Google and Twitter should provide monthly reports on their fight against disinformation, two senior EU officials said on Wednesda...
10 Jun, 2020, 11.56 PM IST
TikTok launches new campaign to curb Covid fake news, ropes in Virat Kohli, Sara Ali Khan & Ayushmann Khurrana#MatKarForward will help to raise awareness about sharing of misinformation.
04 May, 2020, 02.06 PM IST
2019 - The year of fake newsCAA protests latest in a series of events that triggered extensive spread of misinformation across social media, say fact checkers.
20 Dec, 2019, 11.24 AM IST
TikTok’s spreading fake news, MPs say in houseIndia’s data protection Bill is still in the draft stage nine months after the first version was released by the Srikrishna Committee.
05 Jul, 2019, 08.06 AM IST
View: Anti-social media in Elections 2019Over the next five weeks, outside the hot and dusty campaign rallies, much of the war will be fought on WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok...
10 Apr, 2019, 11.06 PM IST
Social Media should be monitored before elections, say activistsActivists have pointed to the spread of fake news via digital platforms as well as placement of advertisements as aspects that need to be m...
14 Mar, 2019, 07.31 PM IST
ByteDance making rounds of power corridors to save its Indian marketByteDance owns popular short-video and social media platforms such as TikTok and Helo, which are popular among India’s teenagers.
15 Feb, 2019, 02.57 PM IST