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The Centre has urged Indians, looking for work in Cambodia, to exercise caution when accepting any job opportunities and warned of false job advertisements and trafficking scams.

The Supreme Court today came down heavily on yoga guru Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved for prima facie violation of the undertaking given by it in the court about its products and also about statements claiming their medicinal efficacy.

Government "sitting with eyes closed", must take action, says Supreme Court on Patanjali "misleading and false" ads case

The ad falsely showed the two celebrities endorsing a controversial self-help course by American influencer Wesley Virgin.

Alleging that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sent a "false summons" to him, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that he has explained to the ED why their summons is illegal adding that his biggest strength and asset is his "honesty."

Yoga teacher Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved on Wednesday said it was not making any "false advertisements or propaganda" regarding its products, and said it would not object if the Supreme Court were to impose a fine or "even give us a death sentence" if found making misleading claims.

Yoga teacher Ramdev has alleged a conspiratorial propaganda to tarnish the image of Patanjali Ayurved Lt, a day after the Supreme Court warned the company headed by Acharya Balkrishna against making "false" and "misleading" claims in ads.

Alphabet's YouTube said on Friday that the platform would stop removing content that might have spread false claims related to US presidential elections in 2020 and before. "In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech," Yo...

The lawyer said that he "greatly regrets" using ChatGPT and added that he had never used it for legal research before. He opined that he was "unaware that its content could be false".

Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader BS Yediyurappa today said that BJP will get an absolute majority in Karnataka assembly elections and added that Congress is making false allegations

China has yet again tried to assert its control on the social media space with its "anti-self-media" propaganda which means news is independently created and posted on social media or the Web by independent netizens who are not registered as journalists, Bitter Winter reported. Chinese administration said that these "self-media" producers copied th...

Call of Duty 2025 might reportedly be a sequel to Advanced Warfare. Reliable tipster Ralph Valve claims that Sledgehammer Games is back on board to make Advanced Warfare 2, abandoning its boots-to-the-ground World War setting. The game is rumoured to be built on the unified IW 9.0 engine. Another tipster CharlieINTEL, however, argues the report to ...

Facebook has yet again failed to detect blatant election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found. Earlier, the app could not identify hate speech, misinformation in countries like Myanmar, Ethiopia and Kenya. This continues a pattern of failing to catch material that violates Faceb...

Samsung has been fined $9.8 million (roughly Rs. 78 crore) for misleading Australian advertising over some of its water-resistant models. Samsung agreed to have made false claims for seven Galaxy models including S7, S7 Edge, A5 (2017), A7 (2017), S8, S8 Plus and Note 8.

Smartphone manufacturers have not yet been able to create “waterproof” phones, despite improvements in the water-repelling technology used on mobile phones. Both Samsung and Apple have previously been fined, for false representation and misleading claims, respectively — both related to water resistance of their smartphones. Here’s why we st...

The Centre has urged Indians, looking for work in Cambodia, to exercise caution when accepting any job opportunities and warned of false job advertisements and trafficking scams.

The Supreme Court today came down heavily on yoga guru Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved for prima facie violation of the undertaking given by it in the court about its products and also about statements claiming their medicinal efficacy.

Government "sitting with eyes closed", must take action, says Supreme Court on Patanjali "misleading and false" ads case

The ad falsely showed the two celebrities endorsing a controversial self-help course by American influencer Wesley Virgin.

Alleging that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sent a "false summons" to him, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that he has explained to the ED why their summons is illegal adding that his biggest strength and asset is his "honesty."

Yoga teacher Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved on Wednesday said it was not making any "false advertisements or propaganda" regarding its products, and said it would not object if the Supreme Court were to impose a fine or "even give us a death sentence" if found making misleading claims.

Yoga teacher Ramdev has alleged a conspiratorial propaganda to tarnish the image of Patanjali Ayurved Lt, a day after the Supreme Court warned the company headed by Acharya Balkrishna against making "false" and "misleading" claims in ads.

Alphabet's YouTube said on Friday that the platform would stop removing content that might have spread false claims related to US presidential elections in 2020 and before. "In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech," Yo...

The lawyer said that he "greatly regrets" using ChatGPT and added that he had never used it for legal research before. He opined that he was "unaware that its content could be false".

Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader BS Yediyurappa today said that BJP will get an absolute majority in Karnataka assembly elections and added that Congress is making false allegations

China has yet again tried to assert its control on the social media space with its "anti-self-media" propaganda which means news is independently created and posted on social media or the Web by independent netizens who are not registered as journalists, Bitter Winter reported. Chinese administration said that these "self-media" producers copied th...

Call of Duty 2025 might reportedly be a sequel to Advanced Warfare. Reliable tipster Ralph Valve claims that Sledgehammer Games is back on board to make Advanced Warfare 2, abandoning its boots-to-the-ground World War setting. The game is rumoured to be built on the unified IW 9.0 engine. Another tipster CharlieINTEL, however, argues the report to ...

Facebook has yet again failed to detect blatant election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil’s 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found. Earlier, the app could not identify hate speech, misinformation in countries like Myanmar, Ethiopia and Kenya. This continues a pattern of failing to catch material that violates Faceb...

Samsung has been fined $9.8 million (roughly Rs. 78 crore) for misleading Australian advertising over some of its water-resistant models. Samsung agreed to have made false claims for seven Galaxy models including S7, S7 Edge, A5 (2017), A7 (2017), S8, S8 Plus and Note 8.

Smartphone manufacturers have not yet been able to create “waterproof” phones, despite improvements in the water-repelling technology used on mobile phones. Both Samsung and Apple have previously been fined, for false representation and misleading claims, respectively — both related to water resistance of their smartphones. Here’s why we st...