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‘The US is an empire of lies’: As US accuses China of disinformation, Beijing counters State Dept report. Here is what China said in...

ANI - 2 October, 2023

The US report alleged that China allocates billions of dollars annually to manipulate foreign information - China has issued a scathing response

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BBC ‘fact checker’, who had dubbed delta strain of Covid-19 as ‘Indian variant’, had lied on her CV to get the job

Dibakar Dutta - 9 September, 2023

Despite her checkered past, Marianna Spring was hailed by 'The Guardian' as a supposed crusader against 'disinformation and hate' on social media.

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Fake news peddler BBC launches ‘BBC Verify’ to ‘fact-check disinformation’, reveals fake profiles, used during US midterm elections, to understand ‘polarisation’

Siddhi Somani - 23 May, 2023

BBC launched an initiative named 'BBC Verify' to address the growing 'threat of disinformation' and build trust with audiences through transparency.

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‘Deliberate disinformation’: Govt of India denies Reuters’ report claiming new ‘security testing for smartphones’ and ‘crackdown on pre-installed apps’

OpIndia Staff - 15 March, 2023

Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar debunked a Reuters report suggesting that the Govt of India was planning new security testing for smartphones

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Twitter Files: ‘Hamilton 68’ funded by a neo-liberal NGO falsely labelled right-wing accounts as Russian disinformation bots

OpIndia Staff - 28 January, 2023

Despite finding that Hamilton 68 was falsely labelling ordinary ring wing users as Russian bots, ex-Twitter official Yoel Roth remained silent

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‘Wikipedia not dependable; can promote misleading information’: SC cautions court authorities

OpIndia Staff - 18 January, 2023

The court noted that Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and information entered therein may not be authentic.

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Plethora of fake news with almost a million subscribers: Read how no ‘fact-checker’ bothered to fact-check this YouTube channel

OpIndia Staff - 20 December, 2022

The YouTube channel 'News Headlines' with almost a million subscriber base has been regularly peddling anti-BJP and pro-Congress fake news on its channel.

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Twitter Files 7.0: FBI paid $3.4 million to Twitter, made top executives dub Hunter Biden laptop story as ‘Russian disinformation’

Dibakar Dutta - 20 December, 2022

Interestingly, the sixth tranche of Twitter Files also revealed 150 email exchanges between the FBI and Yoel Roth during the period of January 2020 and November 2022.

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Twitter account of Washington Post columnist Khaled Beydoun, known for disinformation against Hindus and Kashmir, withheld in India

OpIndia Staff - 14 December, 2022

Twitter account of Washington Post columnist Khaled Beydoun withheld in India.

‘When Modi became Gujarat CM, he added his caste to OBC’: JDU leader peddles disinformation ahead of polls. Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff - 15 October, 2022

Records show that the Modh Ghanchi caste was classified as OBC in July 1994, much before Modi became the Gujarat Chief Minister (2001-2014).

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