Deepfakes: The New Frontier in the Fight Against Fake News
As Bollywood stars Sara Tendulkar and Katrina Kaif become victims of the emerging threat known as "Deepfakes," the issue of fake news resurfaces as a substantial global menace. It is…
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Lying about Lying: Why We Must Revisit the Definition of ‘Fake News’
The phrase 'fake news' continues to be deployed routinely in US politics. In a polarized political atmosphere, both Republicans and Democrats distrust media organizations affiliated with opposing parties. This means…
Emergence of Editorial Eye as a Civic Value in this Era of Social Media
There has been a remarkable upsurge in the reach of journalism, social media, and public engagement, through digital sources in the recent 20 years. Every minute of every day, our…
The Fact Check Brigadier
Written by Ketan Mundhada, Rohan Saxena and Sai Unmesh In August 2016, Pratik Sinha was accompanying his mother, Nirjhari, on a 10-day protest march from Ahmedabad to Una. Earlier that…
Fake news and the power of confirmation bias
Internet offers pathways of enhancing democratic participation, increased interconnectedness and access to knowledge and entertainment. However, uncritical use of digital platforms and uncritical consumption of digital content can impede achieving…
Fake Arguments on Fake News
The constipated tedium that follows each call, denial and condemnation after another round of fake news and its giddying effects has become daily fare. Entire episodes with the sanctimonious and…
Fact-Checking the Establishment’s “Fact-Checkers”: How the “Fake News” Story is Fake News
It would be an understatement to say that during U.S. President Donald Trump’s term in office, the issue of truth and falsehoods has been a central topic of political discourse.…
‘Fake News’ is turning India into ‘lynchocracy’
There is spate of lynching incidents reported from different parts of India. Many of them are attributed to fake news that is discovered much after the damage is done. The…
Google ‘Ministry of Truth’ Intensifies Suppressing ‘Fake News’ (Such As This)
On November 18th, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt spoke about how Google will help to defeat Russia. He said that Google helps in this effort not by “censoring” Russian newsmedia,…
Backlash Against Russian ‘Fake News’ Is Shutting Down Debate For Real
A few days before the Halloween hearings held by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, where powerful tech companies would provide testimony about their roles disseminating “fake news” during the…
Does Russia Produce ‘Fake News’? Or Does America? Or Both?
The biggest difference between American and Russian news-reporting has been a simple factual issue between the two sides, on what incident started the ‘New Cold War’ between the U.S. and…
Arsonist or Fire Fighter?
This world is a coin. It has two faces. Both joined together but both different; often the opposite of one another. I am speaking about social media, the coin which…
Typical Deception By The New York Times
Here’s a common example of authentically fake-news journalism, the type that’s pervasive in the U.S. — not something like “Saddam’s WMD,” which changed history, but the ordinary everyday type of…
Countering The Fake News Industry
While fake news industry has existed in some form or other in the past too, the rise of BJP into power has coincided with the disproportionate growth of fake news…
The Rise And Fall Of Populism And Fake News
Populists have chosen a bad time to wrest power. The main weapon at the disposal of the populist is the power to turn conjecture into fact. The danger is in…
Mainstream News And USA’s Heroics In Vietnam: Why The Silence About The 7 Million Dead?
The amount of bombs dropped by Americans on the innocent citizens of tiny French Indochina was more than twice the amount of bombs dropped in Europe, Africa and Asia during…
Fake News, Hacked Mail, Alternative Facts – That’s Old Hat For Climate Scientists
Distortion? False information? Conspiracy theories? Hacked email? Climate scientists have known all this for decades. What can be learned from their rich experience with climate propaganda. The world is slowly…
Cold War Redux: The “Fake Information Age”
London.: The great tedium of history is that those who refuse to acknowledge its immemorial works tend to see exceptional events everywhere. The next event of terror is singular; the next…
The Fake News Inquiry: Old Wine In New Bottles
London: Any inquiry into fake news is much like having a Royal Commission into the make up and motivation for Halal food. (The latter absurd proposition has been put forth…
Post-Truth Is A ‘Relative’ Concept; India Experiencing It For Years
The pendulum swings both ways. Big things or changes in socialactions and behaviour of human beings, in its true macro sense, do not happen within a year. To a…
From Official Policy To Mainstream Discourse: Propaganda In The Making
The Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act (CDPA), passed last December 8th by Barack Obama, was first presented to the US Congress on March 16th. This effort in information warfare was…
Dossiers, Make Believe And Fantasy: The CIA, Trump And Unverified News
London: Morning breakfast news on the BBC’s Radio Four on Friday was a delightful affair filled with discussions on Russia (when do we not talk about that busy, stirring Bear these…
‘Fake News’ In America: Homegrown, And Far From New
The media landscape in America is dominated by “fake news.” It has been for decades. This fake news does not emanate from the Kremlin. It is a multibillion-dollar-a-year industry that…
Clinton’s Defeat And The ‘Fake News’ Conspiracy
There is an astounding double standard being applied to the US presidential election result. A few weeks ago the corporate media were appalled that Donald Trump demurred on whether…
Killing The Messenger: The Politics Of Bringing Up The Russian Hacking Story Again
Stealing elections is not new. Most observers can recite examples. It was also clear something was wrong. The size of Bernie Sanders rallies for one in comparison with Hillary…
Facebook’s “Fake News” Measures: A Move Toward Censorship
On Thursday, the global social media giant Facebook announced new measures it said were designed to limit the spread of “fake news” from hoax web sites. The measures, however, are…
Mainstream Media: The Real Source Of Fake News
What bothers me is not that we are unable to find the solution to our problems, what bothers me more is the fact that neoliberals are so utterly unaware of…
NYT, WaPo Fake News Still Bringing Real Guns To Iraq, Killing Thousands
Fake news propagated by the US government and collaborating organizations such as the New York Times and Washington Post helped create an environment in which the US was able to…
The Anonymous Blacklist Promoted By The Washington Post Has Apparent Ties To Ukrainian Fascism And CIA Spying
Last month, the Washington Post gave a glowing front-page boost to an anonymous online blacklist of hundreds of American websites, from marginal conspiracy sites to flagship libertarian and progressive publications. As Max…
Dear Media: We’ve Been Living In A Post-Truth Society For A Long Time
In the wake of the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s victory, both of which the majority of the establishment media clearly did not want to occur, there has been a…
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