Last couple of months have been a testament to just how much hate and humiliation people can...
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Digital Forensics, Research and Analytics Centre (DFRAC) is a non-partisan and independent media organisation which focuses on fact-checking and identifying hate speech. With the popularisation of the internet came the challenge of information overload and often times, our feeds are overpopulated with conflicting, incendiary and false information which is increasingly becoming difficult to ignore and not believe in
The popularity of political discourse on twitter knows no bounds anymore. Accounts are getting extremely creative in...
The G7 Summit held on June 11 to June 13, 2021 in the UK aimed at uniting...
It is becoming increasingly difficult to trust even the most reputable news media outlets online. Misinformation seems...
A viral picture of Mirabai Chanu standing in front of a banner is making rounds on Twitter...
A few days ago, a picture of a poster advertising houses ‘for sale’ in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad...
A fake account of former Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi has been consistently spreading fake news...
A new innovative way for internet scamming has emerged on reselling websites such as Olx. Olx serves...
A video is going viral on social media with the claim that the Yogi government has bulldozed...
Nisar Siddiqui (Research Fellow DFRAC) Fake News is a type of hoax or deliberate spread of misinformation...