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Opposition spreading misinformation about Brahmin discontentment with BJP
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 26 (ANI): UP MLA Shrikant Sharma said rumours of the discontentment of the Brahmins with the BJP in Uttar Pradesh were misinformation promoted by the opposition because they lack an issue to pose a challenge to the party and get clean-bowled on the issue of develo
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China attempts to gain control over Pak media: report
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 14 (ANI): China appears to be using Islamabad for a bilateral arrangement to facilitate unhindered control over Pakistan's domestic media through an initiative which disguises as a joint effort to counter a "western smear campaign" and monitor public opinion, t
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Facebook executive blames society, not social networks for COVID-19 misinf
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 13 (ANI/Sputnik): Society, not social networks, is to blame for COVID-19 misinformation, Andrew Bosworth, a key executive at Facebook, said in an interview with Axios on Monday.
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Facebook uncovers fake Chinese experts targeting English-speaking audience
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 12 (ANI): Meta, which owns Facebook, has deactivated over 500 accounts tied to a Chinese-based internet misinformation network. The accounts pushed the allegations of a fictitious Swiss scientist named "Wilson Edwards," who claimed the US was interfering with the se
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Sameer Wankhede sues internet platforms, alleges they are 'spreading misin
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 10 (ANI): Narcotics Control Bureau Mumbai unit chief Sameer Wankhede and his wife Kranti Redkar have approached the Dindoshi court with a suit against Google, Twitter and Facebook alleging that the platforms are being used to spread misinformation again
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Mallika Dua dismisses rumours of her father Vinod Dua's death
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 29 (ANI): Journalist Vinod Dua’s daughter Mallika has said her father “is in the ICU, fighting still” and no misinformation or rumours should be spread about his demise.
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Navjot Singh Sidhu slams Punjab AG, says 'justice is blind but people of P
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], November 7 (ANI): President of Congress' Punjab unit Navjot Singh Sidhu slammed the state's Advocate General APS Deol, a day after the latter accused him of interfering with the work of the Punjab Government and spreading misinformation.
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Tripura Police invoke UAPA against 102 Twitter accounts for spreading misi
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], November 6 (ANI): Tripura police have invoked the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against 102 Twitter accounts for allegedly spreading misinformation about the recent violence that took place at Panisagar in North Tripura last month.
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Information war waged against India in Maldives under garb of nationalist
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Male [Maldives], November 1 (ANI): A new report by Colombo based agency has revealed that a big information war is being waged by certain parties in the Maldives against India, whereby the perpetrators are spreading misinformation under the garb of nationalist identity.
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Society should not glamourise unhealthy behaviour including psychoactive s
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 23 (ANI): With rising incidents of the use of psychoactive substances which are commonly known as 'drug' coming to the fore in the country, experts believe that the drug problems are being prevalent in the country, drug misinformation problem is quite widespread.
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Anuation to help student inventors in securing patents, copyrights etc. fo
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI/PNN): Despite being the country with the highest number of students in the world, student innovation in India remains erratic. The number of patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc., filed by students remains minimal. Major factors for this homuncular figure i
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Google to demonetise YouTube videos on climate misinformation
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 9 (ANI): Amid an increasing pressure to tackle misinformation on climate change on the world's largest video platform- YouTube, the parent company Google has announced that it will start demonetising content on the platform that includes climate change denial.
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