Deepak Chaurasia is the Consulting Editor of News Nation TV. He has over 1 million followers on twitter and has a major base on the website. On August 12, 2021, Chaurasia posted the following image: The post claimed that someone named Mr. Yadav has opened a sweet shop in Kashmir calling it the #Pictureoftheyear. Fact-Check: […]
Continue ReadingThe Hindu IT Cell is a page on twitter that claims to work towards the protection of dharma and catering to concerned Hindus through legal means. The account currently has 95.5k followers and is followed by verified handles such as Amit Kumar and Vijay Patel. The account’s founders Vikas Pandey and Ramesh Solanki are also […]
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Nisar Siddiqui As the digital landscape becomes more complex and expansive day by day, it is also becoming more difficult to navigate and easier to manipulate, as is evident from many high-profile reports about the influence of “fake news” and Twitter bots. The ability to navigate this landscape effectively without succumbing to the pitfalls of […]
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Last couple of months have been a testament to just how much hate and humiliation people can be capable of. Justice for women in India is already not a well-executed reality but the situation is even worse for Muslim women and other female minorities. Two examples of just how much disrespect they have to endure […]
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The popularity of political discourse on twitter knows no bounds anymore. Accounts are getting extremely creative in the way that they present and post news so that it becomes impossible for a common man to tell what is real and what is not. Many popular so-called ‘news media’ accounts have resorted to merely bashing the […]
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The G7 Summit held on June 11 to June 13, 2021 in the UK aimed at uniting leading democracies to help global recovery from the coronavirus and create a greener, more prosperous future. The summit took place in Cornwall. There is currently a surge in cases in all of United Kingdom and some verified media […]
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to trust even the most reputable news media outlets online. Misinformation seems to be the order of the day. News outlets are something on which we depend on our daily news to know what is happening in this world and our country. If even these credible outlets start spreading fake […]
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A few days ago, a picture of a poster advertising houses ‘for sale’ in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad started to make rounds on social media. This prompted many verified social media handles to raise their concerns that a Hindu ‘exodus’ was happening in this neighborhood. According the claim, the 81 houses in this locality were being […]
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How the World is stepping up to combat hateful, harmful content online Although it is relatively common in mainstream society to condemn hate speech, including online hate speech, closer study shows that this mainstream consensus is not well enforced. Starting with the definition of hate speech and striking a balance between freedom of speech, freedom […]
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A fake account of former Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi has been consistently spreading fake news and hate on twitter. The username of this account is @THEGOGAI. This account was created in October 2019 and has a whopping 1,00,000 followers. The account’s content has got nothing to do with the figure it is impersonating […]
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