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By Karen Rebelo Elon Musk owned X’s crowdsourced fact-checking program Community Notes is struggling to limit misinformation on its platform in India’s highly polarised election where political rhetoric has turned into anti-Muslim hate speech. Community Notes was rolled out to users in India on April 4, 2024, a fortnight ahead of the start of voting in a country known for having an acute misinformation problem. The rollout in India, as expected, was bumpy at the outset. The feature allows ‘contributors’ to write notes for tweets which they think are misleading or missing important context. Ind...
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By Vipul Kumar In July 2023, Himachal Pradesh and parts of Uttarakhand were reeling under severe floods. Tanushree Pandey - a journalist from Delhi, was in the field to report from these two ecologically-sensitive North Indian states that are increasingly in the crosshairs of climate change. Tanushree was stranded on the outskirts of Delhi held up by an unregulated Kanwar Yatra on the highway. The Kanwar Yatra is an annual pilgrimage where, mostly young Hindu men who are devotees of the Hindu god Shiva, carry water from the river Ganges and other shrines. A few hours after being stuck, Tanushr...
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By Titha Ghosh On April 5, 2024, BOOM Live travelled to Guwahati for its first-ever offline event in the north-east. The event titled “Fact-Checking Mel” served as an occasion for the launch of the North East Facts Network, an initiative to strengthen fact-checking efforts in the region. The day-long event began with a keynote address from Sushmita Goswami, President of the Gauhati Press Club. From examples of misinformation plaguing the reportage to inspiring stories of collective efforts made by journalists to curb the spread, Goswami emphasized the urgency with which fact-checking needs to ...
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By Divya Chandra A group of fact-checkers, academicians, tech experts and policy experts came together for a panel discussion on ‘Decoding Deepfakes & Elections’ organised by BOOM’s Decode held in New Delhi on 15 April 2024. The ConsensusDeepfakes is a worrying trend.People generating mis/disinformation are only limited by their imagination since it's extremely easy to create fake stories.The technology used to create false information is better than the one used to detect it.Investment is more in the market generating deepfakes than the one detecting it.Mayank Vatsa, professor of computer sci...
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By Nidhi Jacob In February, BOOM published 106 fact-checks in English, Hindi and Bangla. The bulk of the claims, totaling 24 fact-checks, were directed at Indian farmers, followed by 16 fact-checks targeting on the Muslim community. Rahul Gandhi was the next most targeted individual, with 9 fact-checks, among others. 30 of 106 fact-checks centered around the farmers' protests, followed by misinformation around the upcoming Lok Sabha elections this year, with 7 fact-checks, and the unrest in the Sandeshkhali region of West Bengal (6). BOOM has also observed a rising trend in the spread of mis/d...
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By The Conversation Emily Booth, University of Technology Sydney and Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, University of Technology SydneyAs misinformation and radicalisation rise, it’s tempting to look for something to blame: the internet, social media personalities, sensationalised political campaigns, religion, or conspiracy theories. And once we’ve settled on a cause, solutions usually follow: do more fact-checking, regulate advertising, ban YouTubers deemed to have “gone too far”. However, if these strategies were the whole answer, we should already be seeing a decrease in people being drawn into fringe ...
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By Nidhi Jacob In January, BOOM published 98 fact-checks in English, Hindi and Bangla. Of these, majority of the claims were about the Ram Mandir inauguration in Ayodhya with 17 fact-checks. The Maldives government and its citizens were the next targets with 10 fact-checks, followed by the Muslim community with 8, among others. 36 of 98 fact-checks were centered around religious topics, primarily focusing on the opening ceremony of the Ram Mandir. Following this, there were 16 fact-checks related to international events, mainly concerning the Maldives-India row. Additionally, 12 fact-checks we...
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By Rejimon Kuttappan An 86-year-old homeless and landless Christian widow residing alone in a hilly area in Kerala has become an unlikely fake news fighter forcing the Communist Party mouthpiece newspaper to apologise in print. Despite having formal education only up to Class 4, Mariya Kutty, a widow, hasn't taken a step back in fighting the misinformation. She has decided to approach the court demanding an apology and compensation from Deshabhimani, the CPI-M Kerala mouthpiece, in the court for spreading misinformation against her and her family. On November 6, Maria Kutty and Anna Joseph, ag...
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By Hera Rizwan How easy is it to clone Prime Minister Narendra Modi's voice? Very. All you need is a laptop. In an era where technology continually reshapes our digital landscape, one innovation that has quietly emerged at the forefront of human-computer interaction, promising unprecedented impacts is AI voice cloning. As we witness AI streamlining complex procedures of cloning a voice to a single click, the technology challenges our perceptions of what's real while raising important questions about privacy and authenticity. A multitude of AI-powered voice cloning software options have now mad...
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By Hera Rizwan Earlier this week, a viral video featuring actress Rashmika Mandanna circulated on social media, sparking a blend of shock, surprise, and horror among netizens. The original video was of a British Indian influencer named Zara Patel, which was manipulated using deepfake technology. The actress took to social media to express her dismay and astonishment at the circulating video. In her post on X, Mandanna wrote, "Something like this is honestly, extremely scary not only for me, but also for each one of us who today is vulnerable to so much harm because of how technology is being m...
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