Comprova, a fact-checking collective made up of 24 newsrooms around Brazil, launched this week in the lead up to the October elections.
The fact that Bangla Sanskriti Mancha activists were primary informants for most stories in the media highlights the role that city-based NGOs can play in bringing such issues to light,
Social media in Kerala has been spreading falsehoods and panic over the Nipah virus
Real news about fake news: fake audio on WhatsApp in India, and a fake pre-election poll purportedly sponsored by the BBC, showing a big victory for the BJP.
Kerala youths were drawn into violent protests over the Kathua case by anonymous WhatsApp calls made by shadowy forces with ulterior motives
It could take responsibility for the content it publishes and start competing to provide the most accurate news instead of the most click-worthy.
Social media was initially a boon for human rights, but human rights abuses might be embedded in the business model that has evolved for social media giants in their second decade.
The Cambridge Analytica controversy should make us all think more critically about Facebook and what it does
Analysing the tweets for a month revealed what works and what doesn’t, and that Rahul Gandhi does better than his party.
There was not a single month in 2017 when an internet shutdown was not in force in some part of the country.