When a 40-year-old businesswoman read on WhatsApp a broadcast message that her Lebanese bank was announcing bankruptcy she almost had a heart ...
The rise of “fake news” - including misinformation and inaccurate advice on social media - could make disease outbreaks such as the ...
A Singapore opposition politician was asked to correct a Facebook post criticizing state education spending on Monday, the fourth use of a new ...
Singapore’s government invoked a fake news law on Saturday to order an opposition party to publish corrections on two social media posts and an ...
Facebook issued its first correction notice on a user's post at the request of the Singapore government on Saturday, according to the notice seen by ...
China has issued new rules banning online video and audio providers from using artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality technologies to ...
Facebook on Wednesday said it has nixed 5.4 billion fake accounts already this year, in a sign of a persistent battle on social media against ...
Eighty-six percent of internet users have been duped by fake news - most of it spread on Facebook - according to a global survey published on Tuesday. ...
United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday called as “fake news” the New York Times story on the administration’s reported plan ...
Google said on Thursday an anti-fake news law passed by Singapore’s parliament could stunt innovation, a quality that the city-state wants to ...
EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has reportedly vowed to crack down on any “fake news” in the build-up to next month’s ...
Singapore submitted new fake news legislation in parliament on Monday requiring social media to carry warnings on posts it deems false and remove ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed controversial legislation that allows courts to fine and briefly jail people for showing disrespect ...
President Donald Trump has had it with the #fakeMelania conspiracy theories that have been circulating on social media. Trump claims that photos of ...
Google, Facebook, Twitter and Mozilla must do more to combat fake news as Europeans head towards an election or the companies will face the threat of ...
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had removed hundreds of Russia-initiated pages, accounts and groups that it judged to be involved in coordinated ...
An award-winning journalist who worked for Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s leading news outlets, has left the weekly magazine after evidence ...
Well-known American journalist Leon Wieseltier wrote articles criticizing Obama administration’s stance on the Syrian war in The New Republic ...
Gossip can be fun, but more importantly functional. Secrets are intriguing, while State secrets are consequential. Gossip played a functional and ...
Pope Francis is denouncing gossip as a form of “terrorism” and is warning the faithful against telling lies.Francis explored the Catholic ...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected a request to appear before an international parliamentary committee delving into the questions around fake ...
Twitter on Saturday said it deleted a “series of accounts” that attempted to share disinformation, ahead of crucial midterm elections, as ...
Since the start of Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance case, the Qatari media published dozens of false news and uncorroborated information accusing ...
Media outlets continue to rehash news reports claiming that missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi has been killed inside the Saudi consulate in ...
Defenders of the French language on Thursday pleaded with people to stop using the English term “fake news”, recommending they refer to ...
Egypt’s presidency has ratified a controversial legislation imposing regulations on social media that is says aims to crack down on fake ...
President Donald Trump is renewing his campaign against the media, claiming at a Pennsylvania rally that the media is the “fake, fake disgusting ...
A Saudi writer was able to graduate from give universities in the span of just two hours after reading a book authored 31 years ago that alleged ...
Old images, fiction films and even video games have all been used to spread fake news stories in war-torn Syria -- creating all the more work for a ...
WhatsApp took out full-page advertisements in Indian newspapers Tuesday offering “easy tips” to identify fact from fiction after a slew of ...
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