China makes it offence to publish deepfakes without disclosure IANS Dec 2, 2019 In a bid to tackle the spread of fake news and misleading videos created using artificial intelligence (AI) and bots, China has…
New Data Protection Bill to be placed in Parliament soon: Ravi Shankar Prasad IANS Oct 15, 2019 Union Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said the Data Protection Bill is…
World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee calls for efforts to curb fake news PTI Sep 6, 2019 Founder of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for efforts to reduce the volume of fake news on the internet and…
AI-driven imaging system implants digital watermarks to spot fake videos and photos Express Computer May 30, 2019 To thwart sophisticated methods of altering photos and video, researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering have…
Fixing algorithms won’t curb fake news on social media: Researchers IANS Apr 29, 2019 Just tweaking algorithms and infusing Machine Learning (ML) into them will not protect us from misinformation and fake news on…
Using machine learning, April Fools hoax stories can help spot fake news IANS Apr 1, 2019 Team from Lancaster University in the UK, compiled a novel dataset, or corpus, of more than 500 April Fools articles sourced from…
WhatsApp, NASSCOM to impart digital literacy in India IANS Mar 18, 2019 In a bid to curb fake news during the general elections, WhatsApp and NASSCOM Foundation came together to impart digital literacy…
‘Tech firms must take responsibility for its content’ IANS Mar 18, 2019 In the draft Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2019, the government has proposed that if a tech platform…
WhatsApp COO Matthew Idema meets MeitY secretary Ajay Sawhney FE Bureau Jul 24, 2018 Top officials from WhatsApp, including chief operating officer Matthew Idema, met ministry of electronics and information…
Startup looks at fighting fake news with Blockchain Srikanth RP Jun 1, 2018 Eventum, a blockchain start-up, has developed technology to identify 'fake news' in a fast, cheap and secure way, by utilizing the…