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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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Facebook could be fined if it doesn't suffocate freedom of speech in Singapore
Individually these fines amount to small change for a tech giant like Facebook, whose revenue for 2…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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Indian government has found a way to trace WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption
The Indian government might finally have a way around WhatsApp’s issue of not violating end-to-end …
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10 things in tech you need to know today
Have an Amazon Alexa device? Now you can hear 10 Things in Tech each morning. Just search for "Busi…
Charlie Wood
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Trump calls media America's 'biggest enemy' in angry tweet about North Korea summit coverage
"So funny to watch the Fake News, especially NBC and CNN. They are fighting hard to downplay the de…
John Haltiwanger
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India sets up a panel to monitor fake news ahead of the general elections
Around the world, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines are also mulling over their options …
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Trump rails against CNN and 'fake news' during a meeting with Singapore's prime minister at the UN
Trump was reported to have made a "promise" to officials involving Ukraine, and Giuliani denied - b…
David Choi
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A Singapore court sent a British man to prison for leaving his quarantine hotel room to see his fiancée upstairs
Nigel Skea walked up an emergency staircase to visit his fiancée, prosecutors said. He was sentence…
Bill Bostock
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Delhi Law Minister caught faking Law degree
Delhi’s Law Minister Jitendra Singh Tomar was arrested today for faking his Law degree.The leader w…
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What is 'fake news'?
On Thursday, meanwhile, Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald mistakenly reported that Trump supporters had bo…
Brett LoGiurato
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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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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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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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A Singaporean man was given the death penalty after he was found with 2 pounds of cannabis
Omar Yacob Bamadhaj, 41, was sentenced to death in February, and a court dismissed his appeal on Tu…
Sinéad Baker
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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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Western governments enter uncharted territory as they grapple with problem of harmful content on social media
In 2018 UN investigators concluded that the Myanmar military had for years used social media platfo…
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Facebook, Google and Twitter have till April to tell the Delhi High Court who's in charge of removing fake news
The Delhi High Court issued a notice to social networking platforms — including Facebook, Google an…
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BBC, CNN and others are suspending operations or halting their broadcast in Russia after Putin pushes 'fake news' law
The law, which could go into effect on Saturday, says journalists who describe Russia's invasion of…
Yelena Dzhanova
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Not all laws and agreements are 'fake news': EU leader blasts Trump's reported plan to leave the Paris agreement
"It would take three to four years after the agreement came into force in November 2016 to leave th…