Group admins on messaging and social media platforms will be “personally” held responsible for dissemination of misinformation and fake news related to COVID-19 and...
Twitter will start labelling tweets containing potentially harmful and misleading information related to COVID-19, the company said on May 11. These labels will link...
Facebook “in the coming weeks”, will start telling users if they liked, reacted or commented on “harmful misinformation” about COVID-19 that was removed by...
In a test conducted by American not-for-profit consumer rights organisation Consumer Reports, Facebook approved ads that deliberately spread misinformation about COVID-19, including one that...
Twitter has deleted 20,000 fake accounts linked to the governments of Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Honduras and Indonesia, saying that they violated company policy...
As misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic becomes abundant on social media platforms, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has urged social media...
Twitter labelled an edited video of US presidential candidate Joe Biden as “manipulated media”, the Washington Post reported. The video was tweeted by Dan...
Twitter is considering adding brightly coloured labels to tweets by politicians and other public figures that are lies or contain misinformation, NBC News reported....