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Russian court fines Google $50.8 million over 'fake' Ukraine informationRussia has been at loggerheads with foreign technology companies over content, censorship, data and local representation in a simmering dis...
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...
Russia fines Reddit $20,000 for banned content: news agency RIAReddit joins a list of sites under scrutiny in Russia for failing to remove content that Moscow deems illegal, including Wikimedia, streami...
Russian court fines Amazon's Twitch $57,000 over Ukraine contentMoscow has long objected to foreign tech platforms' distribution of content that falls foul of its restrictions, with Russian courts regula...
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...
Putin accuses West of 'terror', tells prosecutors to be toughPutin said the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, the Federal Security Service (FSB), had on Monday prevented a murder attempt by a "ter...
Russia fines Google over Ukraine 'fakes', far-right contentRussia's communications watchdog said earlier this month that it was taking steps to punish Google for "spreading fakes" on YouTube, and ha...
Russia takes steps to punish Google over YouTube 'fakes'Russia's communications watchdog said on Thursday it was taking punitive measures against Google, including a ban on advertising the platfo...
Beware of wartime fake news triggering a run, European Union banks toldEBA said exposures of banks in the bloc to Russia are too low to threaten financial stability, but economic fallout from the war in Ukraine...
Russian regulator blocks Google News, cites Ukraine conflict"We've confirmed that some people are having difficulty accessing the Google News app and website in Russia and that this is not due to any...
China says photo of its troops at Russian border is fake newsThe Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the country's internet watchdog, said on Thursday that there were many fake news reports onli...
Russia backs jail time for 'fake' army news, restricts mediaThe bill sets out jail terms of varying lengths and fines against people who publish "knowingly false information" about the military.
US provoked Russia by not ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine: ChinaChina was one of 35 nations that abstained from a vote of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, which saw 141 nations condemn Russia's inva...
Twitch bans Russian state media in move against harmful misinformation spreadersTwitch said the rule would prohibit users whose online presence is dedicated to pushing widely debunked misinformation with clear risks of ...
Google drops RT, other Russian state media from its news featuresRT (Russia Today) Deputy Editor-in-Chief Anna Belkina said that technology companies that have cut her outlet's distribution have not point...
Russia-Ukraine crisis: Fact-checkers, social media platforms combat fake infoFact-checkers and teams from social media companies were actively monitoring and disrupting attempts to amplify false information in the Ru...
Google, Facebook, Twitter fail to live up to fake news pledgeThe EU executive also criticised Twitter for failing to provide benchmarks to measure its progress on monitoring political ads.