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WhatsApp hires Ezetap's Abhijit Bose to be its India head
WhatsApp tries to curb the spread of misinformation on its service in India where it has more than 200 million users.
Fake news: WhatsApp, DEF host training for community leaders in Jaipur
Over 120 participants were trained on how to spot false news and differentiate between rumours and opinions.
Fake news is winning the war against facts
Extensive research by the BBC World Service has thrown light on what India has known for a while as an incipient problem of fake news.
Fake news is like a virus: Akhilesh Yadav
Mr Akhilesh Yadav compared fake news to a virus while speaking at the ‘Beyond Fake News’ conference here on Monday,
Social media’s misinformation battle: No winners, so far
Facebook and other social platforms have been waging a fight against online misinformation and hate speech for two years.
Fake news network vs bots: the online war around Khashoggi killing
Bots have flooded social media in recent weeks, many of them promoting messages which support Saudi Arabia.
Facebook caught in an election-security Catch-22
CEO Mark Zuckerberg called 2019 “another year of significant investment” during the earnings call.
Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming US elections
Facebook has stopped short of banning all false or misleading posts, something that it has shied away.
WhatsApp hits the road with skits to stamp out fake news in India
The drive follows intense government pressure for both Facebook and WhatsApp to fight fake news.
Researchers build AI that scans source for fake news
The AI uses machine learning algorithm which has been trained using Media Bias/Fact Check's analysis of over 2,000 news outlets.