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WhatsApp and Facebook are ‘reacting’ to curb fake news — some countries enact prohibitive laws
Given that misinformation spreads so quickly, there are some countries -- such as Singapore an…
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Brazil is more worried about fake news than any other country
It's no surprise that Brazilians are concerned about fake news. According to a 2016 report from BBC…
Caroline Cakebread
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India has more fake news than any other country in the world: Survey
Over 60% of Indians said they had seen fake news online against the global average of 57%, accor…
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Trump blames 'fake news' for the increase in political division felt across the country
The man arrested for allegedly sending the bombs, Cesar Sayoc Jr., was taken into custody in P…
Kelly McLaughlin
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The Trump administration has opted out of testing whether school kids can recognise fake news
A spokeswoman for the Department for Education in England told Business Insider: "All schools are a…
Alexandra Ma
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Mysterious Israeli-based group is using Facebook pages to spread fake news and target politicians
It's just another day at Facebook as a mysterious Israeli-based Facebook group used 21 different pa…
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Supreme Court tells Indian government and Twitter to find a way to curb hate speech online and shut down fake accounts
The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Centre and Twitter on a plea seeking a mechanism…
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'I don't think I'm fake news': Fox News' Chris Wallace and Trump spar over misleading claims about US coronavirus death rates
Wallace, face-to-face with President Donald Trump, fact-checked the president's false assertions ab…
Grace Panetta
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Facebook will test 'fake news' filtering in Germany
The proliferation of misleading and false news stories on Facebook has been a heated point of debat…
Kif Leswing
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Obama says the US is divided because 'people are no longer talking to each other'
At first, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dismissed accusations that phony news stories on the soc…
Chris Sanchez
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WhatsApp to limit sharing of frequently forwarded messages to only one chat at a time
While the Facebook-owned platform has been battling the menace of spread of fake news through its …
PTI
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The Indian government is looking at policing online content on social media including breaking end-to-end encryption: Report
According to the report, the government has recently proposed a draft that seeks changes in rule…
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CNN explains why it refused to air Trump's 100-day ad
Trump has repeatedly lambasted the mainstream media even as he provides extensive and in-depth inte…
Allan Smith
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Trump clarifies that only a 'large percentage' of media is 'enemy of the people' after rebuke from Ivanka
During Thursday's press briefing hours before Trump's tweet, White House press secretary Sarah Huck…
John Haltiwanger
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Trump calls on the Senate body investigating his Russia ties to instead probe 'Fake News Networks'
According to the Senate Intelligence Committee's latest statement, "the issue of collusion" between…
Alex Lockie
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Google and Google Home promote fake news story about Obama 'shocking the country' by running for a third term
This isn't the first programmatic fake news problem Google has had. Google recently decided to suns…
Alyson Shontell
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Putin is now going after people's money and property if they criticize the war in Ukraine
A law passed in March 2022 already imposes jail terms and fines on those spreading "fake news" agai…
Huileng Tan
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Here's who fake news affects most
Stelter weighed in on the struggle defining fake news, saying, "This concept of fake news, the most…
Daniel Jason
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China's foreign ministry took a victory lap after the BBC moved its correspondent out of the country, claiming he was 'smearing' them
The BBC said it relocated China correspondent John Sudworth to Taiwan. He had reported on the coron…