FACT CHECKERS

Starting June 1, the top 100 listed companies must confirm or deny market rumors in mainstream media within 24 hours. The rule aims to prevent information leaks affecting stock valuation, enhancing market fairness. Sebi's new framework excludes pric...

Oren Etzionia, University of Washington professor and founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, became one of the first researchers to warn that a new breed of AI would accelerate the spread of disinformation online.

With this partnership, PTI will be allowed to identify, review and rate content as misinformation across Meta platforms including WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.

CUTS International official emphasizes penalty provisions to deter deepfakes and misinformation, advocating for technology interventions to combat AI content misuse. Importance of content verification during elections stressed, along with the roles ...

Supreme Court stopped GoI's Fact Checking Unit, pending Bombay HC's IT Rules decision. Platforms must prevent fake news to keep safe harbour. Karnataka faced backlash over similar proposal, highlighting risks of censorship and selective targeting.

I​​n a blog post, Google said as part of its commitment to enable the news ecosystem to combat misinformation, it will support Shakti, India Election Fact-Checking Collective, a consortium of news publishers and fact checkers in India, working toget...

The social media giant said the aim of the campaign was to educate users on identifying and addressing misinformation on WhatsApp and Instagram by promoting digital best practices and highlighting available safety tools.

This month, Elon Musk, who has since bought Twitter and rebranded it X, echoed several of Trump's claims about the U.S. voting system, putting forth distorted and false notions that American elections were wide-open for fraud and illegal voting by n...

Meta is expanding its fact-checking programme to Threads platform, as the US and India gear up for general elections next year.

Different state governments are in the process of setting up fact check units to combat misinformation. But, can they be neutral and independent of state control? ET asks career fact checkers for answers.

The Misinformation Combat Alliance (MCA) has announced a framework and set of parameters for organisations willing to be a part of an independent Fact-Checking Network (FCN).

An image's history will allow users to see when an image or similar images may have first been seen by Google Search, and whether it was previously published much earlier on other webpages.

Meta-owned Facebook has handed US users the controls over fact-checked content, in a potentially significant move that the platform says will give them more power over its algorithm but some analysts insist could benefit purveyors of misinformation.

Launched in 2018, the EU's code of practice on disinformation counts nearly three dozen signatories including the giants in the sector such as Meta, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and TikTok.

Over the next few days, the Misinformation Combat Alliance is likely to provide details, such as the timeline for setting up the SRO and the structure of its governing council, to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the people sa...

Although Snap, Twitter and Jio haven't officially confirmed that they will support MCA, others like Google, Meta, ShareChat and Koo have given in-principle approval.

Reaffirming its commitment to protecting the safety and trust of digital citizens, the Ministry of Electronics and IT has notified amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, related ...

The government fact-check body will be responsible only for information related to central government schemes and will send relevant notices informing intermediaries of content that has been deemed misinformation or disinformation by it, the ministe...

India, which is among the world's largest data markets, is already battling a flood of misinformation that is worsened by the multiplicity of languages. Generative AI technologies can further accentuate the problem according to technologists trackin...