Misinformation
- May- 2024 -18 MayDH NEWS
Mamata Banerjee, BJP Clash Over Citizenship Act Claims
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Central government of lying about granting citizenship to 14 people under the…
Read More » - Apr- 2024 -15 AprilDH Latest News
Retired judges address CJI over judiciary’s integrity concerns
Retired judges, totaling 21 from both the Supreme Court and high courts, penned a letter to the Chief Justice of…
Read More » - 11 AprilDH Latest News
Karnataka CM files complaint against false news on ‘Hindu votes’ remark
Karnataka’s Congress-led government, under Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, has initiated action against individuals allegedly responsible for circulating false information on social…
Read More » - 3 AprilDH Latest News
ECI launches ‘Myth vs Reality Register’ to combat misinformation about elections
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has unveiled a new initiative called the ‘Myth vs Reality Register’ as part of…
Read More » - Mar- 2024 -27 MarchDH Latest News
YouTube takes down 2.2 million videos in India for violating community guidelines
YouTube removed more than 2.25 million videos in India between October and December 2023 due to violations of its community…
Read More » - Dec- 2023 -27 DecemberDH Latest News
Govt Issues Advisory to Social Media Platforms Amid Deepfake Concerns
In response to the rising concerns surrounding AI-generated deepfake videos, the Indian government has issued an advisory to all social…
Read More » - Nov- 2023 -15 NovemberDH Latest News
Octogenarian Woman Challenges CPM’s Smear Campaign in Welfare Pension Protest, Heads to High Court.
Mariyakutty, an 85-year-old woman, is taking legal action against the CPM for their ‘propaganda’ following her welfare pension protest over…
Read More » - Oct- 2023 -26 OctoberDH Latest News
Threats Target Malappuram Queer Pride Organizers
The 12th Kerala Queer Pride, scheduled for October 28 and 29 in Malappuram, has been marred by disturbing developments as…
Read More » - 18 OctoberDH Latest News
X Implements Paid Features for New Users in Two Nations
The social media platform X, previously known as Twitter, has initiated a trial that involves charging new users in New…
Read More » - Sep- 2023 -14 SeptemberDH Latest News
Nipah Resurgence Prompts 10-Day COVID-Style Lockdown in Kozhikode
Kozhikode has once again found itself at the center of the Nipah virus outbreak, prompting the district administration to enact…
Read More » - Jul- 2023 -31 JulyDH Latest News
Dengue Outbreak in West Bengal: 8 Deaths, 4,401 Infected, CM Expresses Concern
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed concern over the rising cases of dengue in the state, reporting that eight…
Read More » - 25 JulyDH Latest News
Rain Holiday Fake News: Rely on Official Sources, Not WhatsApp
Kerala District Collectors Warn Against Spreading Fake Rain Holiday News At least two district collectors in Kerala, Kozhikode, and Palakkad,…
Read More » - 9 JulyDH Latest News
FIR Filed against Digvijaya Singh for Controversial Post on Former RSS Chief Golwalkar
The Indore police have registered a case against Digvijaya Singh, a Congress veteran, for allegedly sharing a controversial post on…
Read More » - Jun- 2023 -13 JuneDH Latest News
Union Minister dismisses Twitter founder’s claim of India’s platform shutdown as ‘outright lie’
In a recent interview, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey revealed that the social media platform faced threats of shutdown in India,…
Read More » - May- 2023 -28 MayDH Latest News
IT Minister: Data Protection Bill Requires Consent Prior to Collecting Personal Data
Union IT and electronics minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar expressed the objective of the forthcoming Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, stating that…
Read More » - 13 MayFood & Lifestyle
Obesity topics on social media mostly generate negative sentiments, study finds.
A study presented at the upcoming European Congress on Obesity has found that tweets about obesity are mostly negative. Researchers…
Read More » - Dec- 2022 -26 DecemberDH Latest News
Share only verified information, prevent misinformation: Health Minister Mandaviya says amid hike in COVID cases
New Delhi: In wake of rising cases of Covid in several countries, mock drills will be conducted at all…
Read More » - 17 DecemberDH Latest News
Twitter Files 6.0: Twitter shared a ‘master-canine quality’ relationship with the FBI as a subsidiary!
The sixth part of ‘Twitter Files’, which was released by Independent journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday, revealed how Twitter was…
Read More » - Nov- 2022 -29 NovemberDH Latest News
Elon Musk’s Twitter is being watched by the White House due to ‘misinformation’
The White House declared on Monday that it was keeping an eye out for false information on the social media…
Read More » - Oct- 2022 -9 OctoberDH Latest News
Backlash forces PayPal to ‘backtrack’ on $2500 fine for misinformation
PayPal on Saturday reversed its decision after announcing a policy change that could have resulted in customers being fined $2500…
Read More » - Feb- 2022 -1 FebruaryCinema DH
Rogan reacts to Spotify protest and Covid advisory
Following Neil Young’s complaints against the propagation of COVID-19 vaccine disinformation, Spotify said that it will include content cautions before…
Read More » - Dec- 2021 -10 DecemberDH Latest News
Sameer Wankhede, wife file suit against Google, Twitter, Facebook
Mumbai: Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) Mumbai unit chief Sameer Wankhede and his wife Kranti Redkar lodged a suit against…
Read More » - Sep- 2021 -30 SeptemberDH Latest News
YouTube to remove misinformation videos about COVID-19 vaccines
YouTube owned by Google, has deleted the famed anti-vaccine accounts in an effort to improve its policy against vaccine misinformation. According…
Read More » - 8 SeptemberDH Latest News
‘Some people propagating misinformation about MSP’: Agricultural Minister announces the MSP hike for Rabi crops
New Delhi: Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, accused that some people are propogating ‘misinformation’ about minimum support price after…
Read More » - Jul- 2021 -17 JulyDH Latest News
Misinformation on social media platforms ‘killing people’ says Biden
US President Joe Biden has declared that social media companies are ‘killing people’ by failing to police misinformation about the…
Read More » - Jun- 2021 -27 JuneDH Latest News
Kalyan Jewellers alleges Mughals introduced nose rings in India, issues clarification following outrage on social media
New Delhi: Kalyana Jewellers, one of India’s largest jewelry chains, recently sparked controversy by claiming that nose rings were first…
Read More » - May- 2021 -16 MayDH Latest News
Case filed against Ex-IAS officer for spreading misinformation: UP Police
Unnao: Police said on Saturday that a former IAS officer has been charged for supposedly spreading misinformation by tweeting a…
Read More » - Feb- 2021 -22 FebruaryDH Latest News
Unnao deaths; eight accused for spreading misinformation
Unnao deaths; eight booked for allegedly spreading false information. The Unnao police has filed an FIR against six people and…
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