China makes it offence to publish deepfakes without disclosure
In a bid to tackle the spread of fake news and misleading videos created using artificial intelligence (AI) and bots, China has…
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New Data Protection Bill to be placed in Parliament soon: Ravi Shankar Prasad
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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
Top officials from WhatsApp, including chief operating officer Matthew Idema, met ministry of electronics and information…
Startup looks at fighting fake news with Blockchain
Eventum, a blockchain start-up, has developed technology to identify 'fake news' in a fast, cheap and secure way, by utilizing the…