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Kerala government implements 'Fake News detection' in school textbooks
In a move to empower school children, the Kerala government to include the identification of fake n…
ANI
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Mike Huckabee is the unlikely avenger of deep-faked celebrities
Oprah, Taylor Smith, Tom Hanks, and Jennifer Aniston don't run to court when they're deepfaked. Mik…
Laura Italiano
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A small number of ‘superspreaders’ are propagating most of the misinformation on Twitter, study finds
Building on our understanding on the spread of misinformation on social media, a team of analysts a…
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NCW takes suo motu cognizance of report of girls allegedly assaulted at fake NCC camp in Tamil Nadu's Krishnagiri
The National Commission for Women (NCW), has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that 13 gi…
ANI
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Should you be worried about the potential side-effects of the Covishield vaccine?
Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), can lead to dangerously low blood clot and platele…
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Fake GPT-written studies are flooding Google Scholar. Here's why taking them down could make things worse.
A study says fake research papers made with AI are "susceptible to disinformation" but taking them …
Lauren Edmonds
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Instagram's Threads never wanted to be a platform for hard news or politics. Now it's blocking searches about COVID-19.
Meta has temporarily blocked searches for COVID-19-related topics on Threads after rolling out a ne…
Tom Carter
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Most people don't really care about COVID anymore. That's good — and bad.
Even amid a summer spike in COVID cases, the general public's attitude toward the virus is more rel…
Erin Snodgrass
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Elon Musk just set Wall Street up for one of his classic head fakes
Tesla is in trouble: sales are falling and competition from China is ramping up. It's clear Elon Mu…
Linette Lopez
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Combing through news articles could help us predict food crisis outbreaks almost a year in advance!
A group of researchers have developed a machine-learning model that scours through news articles to…
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Feds: A man accused of peddling fake COVID vaccine cards told an undercover agent he sold to Olympians
"I mean, these things are gold," a Colorado businessman told an undercover agent, bragging about th…
C. Ryan Barber
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Japan supermarket sales drop for first time in eight months
Supermarket sales in Japan fell for the first time in eight months in February as food prices conti…
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Less than 1 in 5 Bangladeshi kids could learn remotely during Covid: Unicef report
Fewer than one in five children (18.7 per cent) in Bangladesh participated in remote learning durin…
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A trainee police officer admitted drawing red lines on his at-home COVID-19 test to fake a positive result and get time off work
It was "clear that the test had been manually altered with drawn red lines," a UK police misconduct…
Stephen Jones
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Nicki Minaj told her 157M followers on Instagram that she was locked in 'Twitter jail.' Twitter denies it.
The rapper has been accused of making false or misleading claims on social media related to the COV…
Emily Walsh
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Amazon and Nike are among major brands advertising on websites that spread COVID-19 misinformation, report says
Amazon services ads, along with those from other major companies, were found on more than 30 sites …
Zahra Tayeb
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Instagram gossip blog with 2.8 million followers that said Queen Elizabeth had died is doubling down, claiming a retraction was 'fake news'
The account claimed it had a source from the "Royal Kingdom." No news outlet has reported such news…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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India adds 1,839 Covid infections, active cases down to 25,178
At 25,178, the active cases comprise 0.06 per cent of the total infections. The national COVID-1…
PTI
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Russian media cited fake rumors of a Mossad agent named 'Eli Copter' being involved in the helicopter crash that killed Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi
The "Eli Copter" meme originated as an online meme lampooning claims that Mossad was involved in Ra…
Matthew Loh
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Staff at a hospital in occupied Ukraine resisted a takeover from Russian troops by faking a COVID-19 outbreak
"Our hospital couldn't become a Russian hospital," Dr. Leonid Remiga of Tropinka Hospital in Kherso…