The CB-CID has warned against fake news and photographs being circulated on the sensational father-son duo death case in the social media and directed removal of such posts or face legal action. Also...

The Jammu and Kashmir administration’s new media policy, which empowers the State to tell between fake news and authentic news and take action, has been criticised by almost all but one group: journ...

Historian Hari Sankar Vasudevan died at a private hospital in Calcutta on May 10.On Wednesday (June 10), journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta uploaded on Facebook a post attributed to his sister and Vasu...

Justifying the Mumbai police's order that stipulates criminal action against anyone spreading false and fake information on social media, the Maharashtra government told the Bombay High Court that rea...

A Union home ministry think tank on Monday stayed tight-lipped on its abrupt withdrawal of how-to-spot-fake-news guidelines, which had debunked an audio clip maligning the Tablighi Jamaat chief and re...

A fact-checking platform has claimed in a report that a bulk of Covid-19-related fact-checks in April were related to communal rumours, most of them false allegations that Muslims were deliberately sp...

Police have arrested 140 people and cautioned 586 across the state for creating, circulating, posting, and forwarding fake news related to Covid-19 on social media.At least 180 cases have been registe...

Police on Friday said a social media post that claimed that 25 to 30 people with fever and cough died in their homes in the Taltala area of central Calcutta was fake.The post, which was circulated ove...

Two men have been arrested for allegedly circulating a clip of a Covid-related conversation that police said contained false information and was “motivated and exaggerated”.Naveen Kumar Poddar was...

India’s embassies in Doha and Muscat warned social media users against getting swayed by divisive fake news, stepping in after the country’s envoy to the UAE had on Monday cautioned Indians living...