• Govt notifies fact-checking unit under PIB to check fake news, misinformation related to Centre

    The government on Wednesday notified the Press Information Bureau’s fact-check unit (FCU) as the nodal agency to flag fake news or misinformation related to the central government on social media and the internet.The move – coming weeks ahead of the general elections – gives “legal backing” to the PIB fact-check unit, established in November 2019, a senior government official said.“If they (FCU) flag any news related to the central government as false, intermediaries are now bound to take it...

  • Reuters Ignores Biden, Fact Checks Babylon Bee

    The Babylon Bee lives rent-free in the minds of too many journalists. How else do you describe constant fact checks on a site that churns out satirical news stories a la The Onion? USA Today once fact-checked a Bee piece saying President Joe Biden sold Alaska to Russia. PolitiFact ran to the scene after a Bee article claimed, “ISIS Lays Down Arms After Katy Perry’s Impassioned Plea To ‘Like, Just Co-Exist’” Great work USA Today. Nothing like wasting your time. The Left has no sense of...

  • Reuters Ignores Biden, Fact Checks Babylon Bee

    The Babylon Bee lives rent-free in the minds of too many journalists. How else do you describe constant fact checks on a site that churns out satirical news stories a la The Onion? USA Today once fact-checked a Bee piece saying President Joe Biden sold Alaska to Russia. PolitiFact ran to the scene after a Bee article claimed, “ISIS Lays Down Arms After Katy Perry’s Impassioned Plea To ‘Like, Just Co-Exist’” Great work USA Today. Nothing like wasting your time. The Left has no sense of...

  • FACT CHECK: Online DSWD form for education aid is fake

    The Department of Social Welfare and Development has repeatedly warned against posts allegedly from the agency offering education cash assistance to the public

  • Why a government-run ‘fact-checking’ unit has been stayed by the Supreme Court

    Fears have been expressed that the unit would supress free speech and the freedom of the press.

  • MeitY notifies Fact Checking Unit of the Press Information Bureau

    With this, the PIB can direct social media intermediaries to take down any content that is deemed “fake” or “false” even as the Bombay High Court explores the constitutionality of the Fact Checking Unit

  • Centre notifies fact-checking unit under Information Technology Rules

    Earlier in the day, stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra and the Editors Guild of India moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the formation of the unit.

  • India will fact-check online posts about government matters

    In India, a government-run agency will now monitor and undertake fact-checking for government related matters on social media even as tech giants expressed grave concerns about it last year. The Ministry of Electronics and IT on Wednesday wrote in a gazette notification that it is amending the IT Rules 2021 to cement into law the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • Journalist schools Peter Navarro after he dares press to 'fact check' him

    Former Trump trade official Peter Navarro delivered a lengthy rant to reporters on his way to prison on Tuesday in which he repeatedly dared them to "fact check" me.Unfortunately for Navarro, one of the reporters watching his soliloquy was Politico's Kyle Cheney, who regularly reads through reams of court documents and who was more than happy to oblige Navarro's request.While watching Navarro's tirade against the Democratic Party and the assorted judges who have ruled against him, Cheney took...

  • Fact Check: Was Buckingham Palace Flag at Half-Mast This Week?

    Speculation surrounding the royal family has been rife in the past two weeks, spurred by King Charles III's health and Kate Middleton's public absence, with the flying of the British flag yet another source of rumors.Baseless theories that King Charles III had died spread on Monday, disseminated in part from Russian social media accounts.Others claimed amid similarly false rumors about a forthcoming "royal announcement" that the union jack, otherwise known as the union flag, above Buckingham...

  • Fact Check: Has Macron Promised to Deploy Troops to Ukraine in 2024?

    French President Emmanuel Macron's has exhibited an increasingly hawkish stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, seemingly wearied by President Vladimir Putin's inaction on diplomacy or peace talks.While Macron walked back comments he made earlier this month, in which he suggested that NATO troops could support Kyiv forces, the French leader has not ruled out the suggestion of infantry intervention.A series of posts on social media suggested that Macron's talk had advanced, alleging he had...

  • Fox News Host Fact-Checks Donald Trump After Interview

    Fox News host Howard Kurtz fact-checked former President Donald Trump on Sunday following an interview in which he shared an oft-repeated false claim about abortion.The exchange began during an interview Kurtz conducted with Trump, who is now the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee, in which the host asked if he would support a nationwide abortion ban after 16 weeks of pregnancy, a proposal he has reportedly supported in private, but declined to commit to one way or the other in public.In...