By Hera Rizwan Last year before the Telangana elections, Siddhartha Chakravarthy, a 36 year old techie from Hyderabad started pitching Vako AI, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool he built, to various contesting candidates. He created the AI tool that allows voters to interact with candidates via a QR scan code, logging into a WhatsApp chatbox to inquire about their plans for the constituency, city, and development agenda. The response is not actually being typed by the candidate but generated by AI. Vako AI enables candidates to understand voter concerns and customise responses to address gr...
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By Hera Rizwan Sunil Dutt Dubey, Deputy Superintendent of Police from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh has been spending a lot of time answering calls from people who tell him that they have been scammed. Ironically, the people who have been duped find Dubey after searching for the scamster's photo. Dubey's photo has been misused by several scammers who pretend to be a cop on their WhatsApp profile. "Half of my days are spent responding to calls from people who were either scammed or narrowly escaped a scam. Some fraudsters execute FedEx scams, while others demand bribes in fabricated cases to intimid...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A WhatsApp forward claiming to raise awareness among voters by explaining concepts such as 'challenge vote' and 'tender vote', is viral on several social media platforms. Fact: BOOM found that two out of three claims in the viral WhatsApp forward are false. We had previously fact-checked the same message in 2019 when it was being shared on WhatsApp with false claims. We had then reached out to V Citizens Action Network (VCAN), a civil society organisation partnered with the Election Commission of India (ECI) through the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Maharashtr...
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By Hera Rizwan The Election Commission of India has directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to cease the delivery of Viksit Bharat messages via WhatsApp on immediate effect. The ECI's directive also requires MeitY to promptly provide a compliance report on the issue. The Commission stated that despite the announcement of the General Elections 2024 and the implementation of the MCC, it had received numerous complaints regarding the continued delivery of such messages to citizens' phones. In reply, MeitY notified the commission that while the letters were dispatch...
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By Ritika Jain Six years ago, two families were torn apart by a mob that lynched 45-year-old Mohammed Qasim and grievously injured then 68-year-old Samaydeen. On Tuesday, a Hapur court convicted 10 adults and sentenced them to life in prison. They have also been fined Rs. 58,000 each. On March 12, Additional District and Sessions Judge Shweta Dixit said Qasim’s killing was “perpetrated by a mob which became rowdy and violent…”. “The crime was heinous in nature and a warning to the entire society at large,” Dixit added. Samaydeen, the lone survivor of the 2018 Hapur mob lynching and the prime w...
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By Shantasree Sarkar Former Uttar Pradesh Cyber Crime Superintendent of Police Triveni Singh was unearthing scams on Telegram, a messaging platform. The investigation started with a complaint filed by a girl who was cheated of money through a part time job scam. She received a lucrative offer on WhatsApp first and then was directed towards a Telegram channel wherein her bank details were taken. When the police reached out to Telegram, the messaging platform did not respond to their queries. For months, Singh tried establishing contact with Telegram through multiple follow up emails asking for ...
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By Asad Ashraf Three years ago, 38-year-old Zee (name changed) experienced profound distress as hateful messages inundated her Gurugram housing society's WhatsApp groups. Fueled by a section of mainstream media's focus on Tablighi Jamaat members as Covid spreaders in 2020, these messages triggered nightmares of her home being attacked. The relentless onslaught of discriminatory messages took a toll on Zee's mental health, leading to a diagnosis of clinical depression. Faced with overwhelming fear and anxiety, she made the difficult decision to relocate from Sector 56 Gurugram to a densely popu...
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By Hera Rizwan The Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) has issued an advisory cautioning citizens regarding various scams occurring via the messaging platform WhatsApp. The police think tank, functioning under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, also outlined a set of "do's and don'ts" in a published note on its website, addressing the prevalence of "data-breach acts". The advisory further mentioned that the social media intermediary, WhatsApp, has been notified about these incidents, and several government bodies and Ministry officials are actively addressing the issue. Given tha...
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By Hera Rizwan In November last year, Rahul Kumar, a resident of Saharsa in Bihar, ordered a Lenovo laptop worth Rs 60,000 from the e-commerce platform Flipkart. After encountering numerous unsuccessful attempts to address the defective product through customer care complaints, Kumar decided to take a different approach. He opted to publicly share his problem on X, tagging Flipkart's official handle in the post in an attempt to seek resolution. Responding to his post, a Flipkart support account with handle '@SupportFli2522' assured a quick resolution. Presuming it be a genuine Flipkart account...
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