NEW DELHI: Demanding an apology from Meta for “tarnishing India’s image”, head of the parliamentary standing committee on communications and information technology Nishikant Dubey said the social media giant would be summoned over its CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s comment that the incumbent govt in India had lost the last general election.In a post on X, BJP…
Zuckerberg pointed to the shifting political landscape and mounting criticism of moderation policies as the impetus for change. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bombshell on Tuesday, announcing sweeping changes to the company’s content moderation policies in a bid to embrace free speech and simplify oversight. The shake-up signals the end of Meta’s long-standing fact-checking…
This is an AI-generated image (Picture credit: Lexica AI) There is widespread online misinformation about health topics in India, particularly concerning cancer, reproductive health, vaccines, and lifestyle diseases, according to a new report. The report, titled “Health Misinformation Vectors in India,” was released at the Health of India Summit in New Delhi. It analyzed health-related…
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…
