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WhatsApp Appoints 'Grievance Officer For India' In Its Biggest Market

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday September 23, 2018

Mobile messaging app Whatsapp has appointed a grievance officer for India and detailed out a process on its website for users to flag concerns and complaints, including those around fake news.

Melting "Truth" Ice Sculpture Protests "Fake News" At US Capitol Building

World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday September 23, 2018

Artists melted a ton of ice spelling out the word "truth" in the shadow of the US Capitol on Saturday, in a poetic protest at the caustic state of politics in the era of "fake news" under President Donald Trump.

Congress Claims Calls From BJP Posing As Reporter To Fabricate Fake News

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday September 23, 2018

Assam Congress claimed on Saturday that it had traced to the BJP head office in Delhi the calls from a person, who posed as a TV news channel journalist, to some of its leaders and alleged it was an attempt by the party "to fabricate fake news" against it.

Amid US Mid-Term Polls, Facebook Expands Fake Election News Fight

World News | Reuters | Friday September 21, 2018

Facebook Inc on Wednesday said it would team with two U.S. non-profits to slow the global spread of misinformation that could influence elections, acknowledging that fake news sites were still read by millions.

Russians Refusing To Delete "Fake News" Could Face Year In Prison

World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday September 19, 2018

Russians who refuse to take down online information that has been judged "false" by a court could be sentenced to up to a year in prison under a bill approved by MPs Tuesday in a key second reading.

Data Theft, Fake News Threat To Democracy: Election Chief

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday September 15, 2018

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) OP Rawat said on Saturday the potential threat to democracy is due to rise of all kinds of machination such as data theft, data harvesting, profiling and targeted communication.

Current Laws Inadequate To Tackle Black Money In Polls: Election Chief

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday September 15, 2018

Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat said on Saturday that the present set of laws were "inadequate" to tackle the menace of black money in elections, and noted that Cambridge Analytica like "machinations" of data theft, data harvesting and fake news pose a potent threat to the electoral process in the country.

"Lot Of Misinformation In India Spreads On WhatsApp": US Expert

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday September 15, 2018

Media professionals must rely on varied sources to prevent circulation of wrong information, a US digital disinformation expert said on Friday.

Didn't Receive Invite From RSS For Event, It's "Fake News", Says Congress

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Friday September 14, 2018

The Congress party on Thursday denied having received any invitation from the RSS for its President Rahul Gandhi to attend a three-day lecture series and said the BJP-RSS have been spreading fake news.

Omar Abdullah Rules Out Any Alliance With BJP In Jammu And Kashmir

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday September 10, 2018

National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah Monday ruled out any alliance with the BJP for formation of government in Jammu and Kashmir, saying such reports were "fake news" and "some psy-ops plan" designed to "unsettle" his party cadre.

BJP Lawmaker, Of "Kidnap Girls" Infamy, Trolled For Sonali Bendre Tweet

India News | Edited by Revathi Hariharan | Friday September 7, 2018

Just days after Maharashtra BJP lawmaker Ram Kadam faced a backlash for his comment, bragging to young men that he would help youngsters "kidnap" a girl even if she rejects them, he seems to have landed in yet another patch of trouble. This time for posting a tweet condoling the death of Bollywood actress Sonali Bendre, currently undergoing treatme...

250 Twitter Handles Made To Spread Fake News About Bhima-Koregaon: Police

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday September 6, 2018

Around 250 Twitter handles were created to spread misinformation about the Bhima-Koregaon violence and to mobilise support for allegedly holding demonstrations abroad to defame the Modi government, Maharashtra Police said on Wednesday.

"Fake News": Goa Congress Denies Reports Of Ex-Chief Minister Joining BJP

Goa News | Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday September 5, 2018

Goa Congress President Girish Chodankar on Wednesday denied reports of Congress lawmaker and former Chief Minister Digambar Kamat joining the BJP, and said it was an attempt by the BJP to divert people's attention from the failures of its coalition government.

WhatsApp Expands Radio Campaign To Curb Fake News To 10 More States

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 5, 2018

Stepping up crackdown efforts on the spread of fake news, WhatsApp said today that it is expanding its radio campaign to 10 more states, including Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal.

WhatsApp to Train Indian Users on Dangers of Fake News

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday August 29, 2018

WhatsApp on Wednesday roped in New Delhi-based non-profit Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) to create awareness among its users about the need to verify information.