Citing US officials, a report said on Sunday that four online publications linked to Russian intelligence agencies have been spreading misleading information about Covid-19 vaccines.
Social media platforms must have provision for voluntary verification of users, Law and Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
Advocate Ashwini Dubey, appearing for Goenka, said directions are needed for establishing a mechanism to regulate hateful content on the social networking site.
“I have a message for all of you — come, work in India, earn money but you will have to follow India’s laws,” Ravi Shankar Prasad says in Rajya Sabha
This came after some of the protesting farmers did not follow the prearranged route on Republic Day for their tractor rally and broke barricades to enter Delhi.
As India gets closer to mass vaccination nation-wide rollout, it must brace up to tackle vaccine misinformation on a war footing.
Visuals of an Adani Wilmar branding on an Indian Railways rolling stock took over social media on Wednesday, with many floating theories on the privatization of the national carrier. Sharing the video on Facebook, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged that "a large portion of railways will go to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's billionaire friends".
It is being claimed in a video that the Government will deploy Paramilitary Forces at Singhu Border to carry out a major operation and impose curfew in Punjab and Haryana afterward. The PIB Fact Check has confirmed that the claims made in the video are fake.
India on Friday slammed Pakistan over its accusations that New Delhi was spreading disinformation, saying when looking at disinformation, the best example is the "country next door which is circulating fictional and fabricated dossiers and purveys a regular stream of fake news".
Twitter in October added additional warnings and restrictions on tweets with a misleading information label from US political figures, US-based accounts with more than 100,000 followers, or that obtain significant engagement.
The report came hours before the social networking giant banned a fast-growing group called "Stop the Steal'
The bench observed this when senior advocate Dushyant Dave, appearing for Jamaat, said the Centre in its affidavit has stated that petitioners are trying to muzzle freedom of speech and expression.
Donald Trump paid just USD 750 in federal income taxes in the year he was elected US president and also in his first year in the White House, according to a media report, which also said that he or his companies paid USD 145,400 taxes in India in 2017.
Twitter is also testing a new option that will show its users posts has been retweeted with a comment
The action was taken by the Mumbai Police's cyber wing against the accused, Omar Sarvagnya, after the videos were found to be defamatory and damaging the image of the state government and the city police, he said.
To promote transparency in news publishing, Google recently introduced minimum requirements that apps must meet in order to be classified in the News category on Google Play.
BJP and RSS control Facebook and WhatsApp in India says Rahul Gandhi, attacking the Centre that it spreads fake news and hatred using its influence.
Facebook can better reduce the extent to which their users fall for and spread fake news articles by deploying a better designed fake news flag.
Facebook on Wednesday removed a post by US President Donald Trump for violating its rules against sharing misinformation about the coronavirus. In the video post, that was from an interview with Fox & Friends earlier that day, Trump claimed that children are "almost immune" to COVID-19.
Study says platforms like Twitter and Facebook are increasingly becoming the primary sources of news and misinformation for Canadians and people around the world
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