As Florida braces for the arrival of Hurricane Milton, the aftermath of Hurricane Helene is being further complicated by a torrent of conspiracy theories and misinformation. These baseless claims have worsened the challenges for recovery teams trying to provide aid to devastated communities, making an already dire situation even more complex.FEMA faces false claims of…
NEW DELHI: Amul filed a complaint with the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Police Station against false claims circulating on social media, alleging that the company supplied the ghee used in the Tirupati temple’s prasadam laddoos. The complaint was lodged after several social media posts falsely claimed that the ghee used in the laddoos contained animal fat…
WASHINGTON: America’s mainstream press, including the New York Times and CNN, are getting a drubbing from sections of the media fraternity for “sanewashing” Donald Trump‘s unhinged election speeches even as the former president is spiraling into ever-crazier remarks replete with trash-talking and fear-mongering.“Sanewashing,” a term coined recently by the independent journalist Aaron Rupar, refers to…
WASHINGTON: Tech honcho and the world’s richest man Elon Musk is going all in for Donald Trump amid a raging social media war about truth and misinformation, and which side, Democrats or MAGA Republicans, represents what. In a series of posts on his platform X, Musk left no doubt about his political affiliation by characterizing…
Brazilian Supreme Court has issued a warning to X, previously known as Twitter, threatening to suspend the platform’s operations in the country, if Elon Musk does not appoint a legal representative. The court’s decision came after X’s repeated failure to comply with orders related to hate speech and misinformation. Despite multiple warnings, the social media…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy on Tuesday told Calcutta high court he had deleted the contentious posts on X that had prompted Kolkata Police to summon him for spreading misinformation, adding that he had spoken to the cops about this. The state told the HC that no coercive action would be…
KOLKATA: Trinamool’s Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, BJP’s Locket Chatterjee and two senior doctors – cardiac surgeon Dr Kunal Sarkar and Burdwan chief medical officer Subarno Goswami – were among 200-odd people against whom police issued summonses Sunday for allegedly “spreading misinformation” about the RG Kar rape-murder or “revealing the victim’s identity“.Roy had put…
DHAKA: The interim govt warned media outlets Sunday that any attempt at flattery or misinformation instead of publishing or broadcasting the truth could lead to them being shut down. “Shame on you, shame on the media owners… you did not tell the truth,” home affairs adviser Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain said, alluding to…
NEW DELHI: The death toll from the Wayanad landslides surpassed 400 on Wednesday, with over 150 people still missing, according to reports.The search for those missing after the devastating landslides in Wayanad continues, with rescue teams focusing their efforts today on forested areas.The Kerala government has also decided to involve the families of the missing…
NEW DELHI: Protests organised by far-right groups have caused chaos across several UK cities in response to false information about a stabbing in Southport. The unrest has spread to multiple locations including Liverpool, Manchester, Sunderland, Hull, Belfast, and Leeds, with clashes between demonstrators and police intensifying throughout the day.Violence and clashesIn Liverpool, demonstrators threw bricks,…
