An investigation found the tech giant’s ad business generates revenues from websites spreading disinformation in Africa, Europe and Latin America.
Journalists Mohammed Zubair and Pratik Sinha, co-founders of fact-checking website AltNews, have relentlessly been battling misinformation in India.
Mohammed Zubair was arrested last month over what police claim was a “highly provocative” 2018 tweet aimed at straining ties between majority Hindus and minority Muslims.
The present post-truth era is a manifestation of the fluid state of global affairs, and will require the renegotiation of existing norms and values to generate a new set of truths.
Facebook, Google and Twitter are introducing stricter rules, altered algorithms and thousands of fact checks to stop the spread of bad misinformation online about the virus.
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