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Fighting Misinformation: Google Search to roll out new tool to detect, fight fake news, manipulated images
Mehul Das •Google is finally releasing a new feature called "About this image" in its search results to help users in verifying the origins of images they discover online, detect and fight fake news and misinformation. It will. The features allows users to check meta data, usage history and a lot more
Americans are losing confidence in media fairness, new survey reveals
Fp Staff •This level of trust in the media matches the lowest point recorded in 2016, and the percentage of total distrust, at 39 per cent, sets a record
Social media platforms struggle to contain misinformation on Israel-Hamas war
•Social media users are being bombarded with fake combat photos, old videos from Syria repurposed to look like they were taken from Gaza, and conflict-themed video game footage being passed off as a scene from a Hamas attack
'Fake & shared to create disharmony': Govt debunks false anti-Sikh claims after India-Canada row over Nijjar killing
Fp Staff •Amid escalating tensions between Ottawa and New Delhi, social media posts claiming that the Indian Army has been denying leaves to Sikh soldiers ever since Trudeau made those comments in the Canadian Parliament have been going viral. Press Information Bureau (PIB), however, has debunked the claim
Australia may start fining Google, Meta and Twitter billions of dollars for fake news on their platforms
Mehul Das •Australia is planning to start fining Big Tech and other social media platforms for failure to deal with fake news and misinformation on their platforms. The fines proposed in the new legislation are hefty and may run into billions of dollars
AI generated content should be labelled to prevent fake news, says EU Commissioner Jourova
Fp Staff •According to Jourova, businesses who have endorsed the EU Code of Practise to combat misinformation, like Google, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms, shall report on the protections put in place to do so in July
Fact Check: Did ‘Canadian actor Saint Von Colucci’ who ‘died’ after 12 plastic surgeries even exist?
Fp Explainers •The story of the death of Canadian actor Saint Von Colucci, who had 12 plastic surgeries to look like BTS star Jimin, went legit viral. Turns out it is fake news, a hoax. The supposed actor appears to be AI-generated
Explained: How Fox News will be affected after the firing of Tucker Carlson
•Fox's dismissals of Glenn Beck in 2011 and Bill O'Reilly in 2017 offer lessons in what the post-Carlson fallout might be. While Fox has shed big-name hosts with little damage in the past, Tucker Carlson's departure comes at a critical time for the network
How disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz is preparing to take on Fox News
•Among the challenges still facing Fox News after its jaw-dropping settlement of a defamation case is a lawsuit planned by a high-profile disinformation expert, Nina Jankowicz, who is crowdfunding her way to court after a firestorm of harassment and abuse
Fake YouTube videos claimed Aaradhya Bachchan ‘no more’: How the Delhi high court lambasted them
Fp Explainers •The Delhi high court has restrained nine YouTube channels from sharing content on Aaradhya Bachchan’s health. While some claimed that the 11-year-old star kid was ‘critically ill’, a report said that she is ‘no more’