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Govt asks social media platforms to remove 100 COVID-19 related posts

April 25, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments AstraZeneca, B.1.1.7, bed shortage, Bharat Biotech, communally sensitive posts, coornavirus vaccination, corona new variant, coronavirus, coronavirus cases, coronavirus detection, coronavirus new strain, coronavirus strain, coronavirus tests, coronavirus uk, coronavirus vaccine, coronavirus variant, Covaxin, covid test, covid treatment, covid-19, covid-19 vaccination, covid-19 vaccine, Covid-19 Vaccines, Covishield, data verification, dexamethasone, emergency use, first wave, health ministry, isolation protocol, Johnson & Johnson, medical information, medical oxygen, misinformation, nationwide vaccination drive, new covid-19 strain, new variant, Oxford, oxford astrazeneca, oxygen cylinder, oxygen cylinder shortage, oxygen shortage, personal protective equipment, phase 3 trials, positivity rate, PPE, recoveries, risk of deaths, Russian COVID-19 vaccine, safety measures, safety protocol, SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-2 virus, second wave, sensitive posts, single-day spike, social media, Sputnik V, steroid, testing facilities, tika utasav, twitter, UK passengers, unlock guidelines, vaccination drive, vaccine shortage, vaccine trials, vaccines

Many of the removed tweets had content related to shortage of medicine, beds, mass cremations, and the gathering of crowds

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Instagram’s new tools to prevent abusive content in direct messages

April 24, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments abuse, accounts, direct messages, Facebook, harassment, hate speech, image sharing, Instagram, misinformation, sexual abuse, users

Instagram’s new tool will automatically filter DM requests containing offensive words, phrases, and emojis, preventing recipients from seeing the messages

Business

U.S. Senate panel mulls revoking Big Tech immunity citing COVID scams online

April 21, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments Amazon, apple, Big Tech, covid-19, Facebook, free speech, Google, hate speech, internet, microsoft, misinformation, pandemic, reguation, Section 230, tech giants

In March, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg called for a Section 230 reform that would give publishers immunity only if

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Facebook sued for failing to remove anti-Muslim hate speech

April 9, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments AI, anti-muslim, civil rights, content removal, Facebook, hate groups, hate pages, hate speech, minorities, misinformation, muslim, Muslim Advocates, regulation

Zuckerberg and other Big Tech executives have testified before the U.S. Congress on multiple occasions regarding how they curb hate

Karnataka

Shivaram Karanth Layout: SC-appointed committee submits report against Kodihalli Chandrashekar for spreading misinformation

April 5, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments Bengaluru, committee, Kodihalli Chandrashekar, misinformation, Shivaram Karanth Layout, Supreme Court

The Supreme Court appointed committee, which is looking into lawful constructions made on land notified for formation of Shivaram Karanth

National

Facebook to curb hate speech related to State Assembly elections

March 31, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments Facebook, fack-checking, hate speech, indian elections, misinformation, social network, State Assembly Elections

The California-based company is still under international scrutiny over its inability to curb hate speech and misinformation from its platform

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MIT team builds machine learning model for fact-checking

March 31, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments algorithm, artificial intelligence, computer vision, disinformation, emerging technologies, Facebook, fact-checking, labels, machine learning, misinformation, MIT, research, social biases

The model is said to improve fact-checking systems worldwide, mitigating social biases that otherwise come as part of AI-powered technologies

International

Twitter cracks down on Covid vaccine misinformation – Times of India

March 2, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments behaviour, covid, information, misinformation, San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter says it has begun labelling tweets that include misleading information about Covid-19 vaccines and using a “strike

National

The Hindu Explains | Why has the government announced new guidelines to regulate digital content?

February 27, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments digital news publishers, digital platforms, Electronics and Information Technology Minister, fake news, government guidelines, grievance redressal mechanism, investigative agencies, messaging apps, messaging platforms, misinformation, OTT platforms, OTT services, over the top, Ravi Shankar Prasad, social media, social media sites, streaming services, The Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, The Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021

The story so far: On Thursday, in a long-anticipated move, the government notified guidelines that seek to provide a grievance

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Facebook says its new features can help debunk common climate myths

February 19, 2021 Divya Bharat 0 Comments Climate, climate change, environment, Facebook, factcheck, hate speech, labels, meterological department, misinformation, myths, social network, UN, weather

The social networking platform added the information centre in September last year, attempting to curb misinformation around climate, and has

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