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By Hazel Gandhi The year 2023 was a busy one for the fake news industry - it led us fact-checkers at BOOM to write over a 1,000 fact-checks across three different languages. A closer look at our work revealed that 77 unique fact-checks were on false reporting, or misreporting, by news channels, news websites and wire agencies between January 1 to December 31, 2023. Since 2020, BOOM has published an annual report all the fact-checks we did on false or misleading claims being spread by these media outlets, and the number has been steadily rising over the years. In 2020, as the world was gripped ...
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By Swasti Chatterjee The year 2023 has been a remarkable year for India with the country launching its first successful lunar mission and hosting the G-20 Summit with guests descending in New Delhi from across the world. The year also witnessed a prolonged ethnic clash in the North East state of Manipur that claimed more than 180 lives and displaced thousands and a horrific triple train accident in Odisha. Internationally, the Israel-Hamas conflict and the rift in the Indo-Canadian relationship impacted the Indian news cycle massively. Among the major events of 2023, what remained constant was...
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By Anmol Alphonso The year 2023 provided an unsettling preview of how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can be misused to commit fraud, create non-consensual imagery and generate misinformation, in India. Widely accessible generative AI tools have enabled the creation of deepfakes in the form of images, audio and videos. The technology has largely been used to target already marginalised groups and communities. While the buzz around deepfakes has existed since 2017, this year fact-checkers in India saw synthetic content tailored to local audiences and AI voice clones in Hindi - a phenome...
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By Ritika Jain This year proved remarkable for the Supreme Court for the high number of judgments given by Constitution Benches (benches of five judges and seven judges), the number of judges appointed and those that retired, along with its record of “unprecedented disposal” of cases. To give perspective in numbers: In 2023, the Supreme Court Constitution Bench gave 18 judgments (five-judge benches: 17, seven-judge bench: 1); 14 judges were appointed while nine retired; and the top court made a dent in the backlog of its cases by disposing 52,191 cases against the registration of 49,191 cases....
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By Hera Rizwan In a year marked by unprecedented technological advancements with artificial intelligence, the dark underbelly of the digital world has proven equally adept at evolving and orchestrating sophisticated cyber scams. From cunning Aadhaar-related scams to the insidious world of sextortion scams, the realm of cybercrime has witnessed a surge in creativity and complexity, posing the law enforcement with challenges that necessitate the adaptation to emerging technologies to stay one step ahead of evolving scams in the future. Decode covered a plethora of cybercrimes happening around th...
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