Mint Primer | Fact and fiction: (Un)importance of fact-checkers
1 day, 10 hours ago

Mint Primer | Fact and fiction: (Un)importance of fact-checkers

Live Mint  

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg has ended eight years of independent fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram claiming it was stifling “too many voices". Zuckerberg said Meta’s platforms will phase out fact-checks in favour of ‘community notes’—made popular by Elon Musk’s X. However, the process has often failed to filter misinformation—domestic experts said the lack of human fact- checkers is one reason for the waning influence of X in India—one of the world’s largest online economies. Lawyers say ‘due diligence’ can be subjective—thus, the community notes mechanism could work just fine, like it is for X. Many said this may work against any ruling political party in states or at the Centre as community notes automatically filter agendas and suggest other political views as a potential middle ground.

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Mint Quick Edit | Meta’s meta-fiction shouldn’t bother us
9 hours, 24 minutes ago

Mint Quick Edit | Meta’s meta-fiction shouldn’t bother us

Live Mint  

Social media ushered in the world of “post-truth" as we know it, so it’ll be no small irony if the chief of Meta, which dominates it, is summoned by India’s parliamentary committee on communications and IT for “misinformation." On Tuesday, the Indian panel’s head used X, a microblog platform, to say it would call Mark Zuckerberg and get Meta to …

As Meta shifts away from professional fact-checkers, Indian firms await clarity
5 days, 13 hours ago

As Meta shifts away from professional fact-checkers, Indian firms await clarity

The Hindu  

Indian fact-checking organisations are on tenterhooks as they await the consequences of Meta’s decision to abandon its partnerships with professional fact-checking organisations in favour of a community-led model, starting with the U.S. Amitabh Kumar, founder of Social and Media Matters, which has worked with large social media platforms, said that he was trying to keep an open mind on Meta’s …

Zuckerberg ends fact-checking on Meta's Facebook, Instagram: Why it could lead to a flood of misinformation
1 week ago

Zuckerberg ends fact-checking on Meta's Facebook, Instagram: Why it could lead to a flood of misinformation

Firstpost  

Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta has announced that it will end its fact-checking programme in the US, citing that the checkers have become ‘too biased’. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook and Instagram would be ending their current third party fact checking programme in the United States and instead begin moving to a Community Notes programme. Opening floodgates to misinformation While …

Meta’s Fact-checking: disinformation experts slam Zuckerberg’s decision
Trending News
1 week ago

Meta’s Fact-checking: disinformation experts slam Zuckerberg’s decision

The Hindu  

Tech giant Meta's shock announcement that it is ending its US fact-checking program triggered scathing criticism Tuesday from disinformation researchers who warned it risked opening the floodgates for false narratives. Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced the company was going to "get rid" of its third-party fact-checkers in the United States, in a sweeping policy shift that analysts saw as …

Mark Zuckerberg ends fact-checking program, possibly as he tries to appease Donald Trump: Story in 5 points
1 week ago

Mark Zuckerberg ends fact-checking program, possibly as he tries to appease Donald Trump: Story in 5 points

India Today  

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a big decision to end the company’s long-standing fact-checking program, a move that has sparked debates across the tech and political verticals. The impact of this decision is wide-ranging, from how misinformation will be managed on platforms like Facebook and Instagram to the future of third-party fact-checking organisations that rely on Meta’s support. Meta …

Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them
55 years ago

Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

Wired  

Meta’s fact-checking partners claim they were “blindsided” by the company’s decision to abandon third-party fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in favor of a Community Notes model, and some say they are now scrambling to figure out if they can survive the hole this leaves in their funding. “We heard the news just like everyone else,” says Alan Duke, cofounder …

Social media giant Meta scraps fact-checking for ‘community notes’
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1 week, 1 day ago

Social media giant Meta scraps fact-checking for ‘community notes’

Al Jazeera  

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, says allowing fact-checkers to assess content ‘became a tool to censor’. The social media giant Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, has announced the end of its third-party fact-checking programme in the United States, saying that it will encourage “more speech” on its platform. Instead of third-party fact-checkers, Meta said it will rely on …

New IT Rules provide an evidence-based-fact-checking system for fake news, says Centre
1 year, 8 months ago

New IT Rules provide an evidence-based-fact-checking system for fake news, says Centre

The Hindu  

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology termed as “premature” political satirist Kunal Kamra’s plea challenging the constitutional validity of the Information Technology Amendment Rules, 2023 and said the Rules are in “public interest” and provide an evidence-based-fact-checking system for a mechanism to deal with fake or false or misleading information resulting in riots, mob lynching and other heinous crimes. …

The ‘fact check’ is that Indians will have little choice
1 year, 9 months ago

The ‘fact check’ is that Indians will have little choice

The Hindu  

George Orwell’s iconic novel 1984 introduces readers to Oceania, a tyrannical state with a state-mandated language, Newspeak. This dystopian fiction is providing inspiration to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology which has created powers to determine “fake or false or misleading” Internet content about “any business of the Central Government”. The determination of “fake or false or misleading” information …

Aakar Patel | Fact-checking' by govt & the truth: Sweeping powers to curb dissent?
1 year, 9 months ago

Aakar Patel | Fact-checking' by govt & the truth: Sweeping powers to curb dissent?

Deccan Chronicle  

On April 6, 2023, the Union government passed new rules, allowing it to identify what it thought was any fake or false or misleading content online related to the government. This would be done by a “fact check unit” set up by the government, which would send takedown orders to the social media platforms. The rules would give the government …

Interested party: The Hindu Editorial on facts, checks and the Press Information Bureau
1 year, 11 months ago

Interested party: The Hindu Editorial on facts, checks and the Press Information Bureau

The Hindu  

A proposal by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology that seeks to force social media platforms to take down content “fact-checked” by the Government’s Press Information Bureau as false needs to be opposed without even a second look. The proposed amendment to the IT Rules opens the door for the PIB or any other agency “authorised by the central …

As Fact Check Gets Caught in Fake News Web, Twitter Finds Itself in a Spot Again
3 years, 6 months ago

As Fact Check Gets Caught in Fake News Web, Twitter Finds Itself in a Spot Again

News 18  

Who knew that fact-checkers would be the biggest peddlers of fake news? A few hours later another video emerged of the poor man, in a completely different setting in the company of a religious leader, saying that the hooligans had forced him to chant “Jai Sri Ram” and this was used to conclusively settle the communal nature of the incident. …

Ravi Shankar Prasad writes to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
4 years, 4 months ago

Ravi Shankar Prasad writes to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

The Hindu  

With Facebook already facing criticism over the alleged bias towards to Narendra Modi-led government in India, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has written to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of the social network, raising “serious concerns” over the “concerted effort” by the platform to “reduce the reach of people supportive of right-of-centre ideology”. The Minister also highlighted that the …

Facebook expands fact-checking network ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2019 to curb fake news
5 years, 11 months ago

Facebook expands fact-checking network ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2019 to curb fake news

Firstpost  

Facebook Inc is expanding its fact-checking network in India to curb the spread of misinformation as the world’s largest democracy prepares for a general election that must be held by May, the US-based social media giant said on Monday. “We are committed to fighting the spread of false news on Facebook, especially ahead of the 2019 General Election campaign season,” …

Facebook amps up fact-checking team in India to curb fake news
5 years, 11 months ago

Facebook amps up fact-checking team in India to curb fake news

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Social media platform Facebook India on Monday said that it has added five new partners and three new languages to its fact-checking program in a bid to curb fake news. News media and fact-checking firms, including India Today Group, Vishvas.news, Factly, Newsmobile and Fact Crescendo, will review news stories on Facebook for facts and rate their accuracy. We …

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