There is a relative lack of data on the intersection of misinformation and misogyny in Indian politics. In our previous pieces, we have tried to highlight a few ways in which misinformation and disinformation impacts women differently than men and how members of the LGBTQ community and cis-gender women from all backgrounds are more adversely […]
Continue Reading
Unlike other persecuted groups, Uyghur Muslims rarely become a topic of discussion among Muslims. Even though the reality is that Uyghurs are facing the worst kind of persecution at the hands of Communist regime of China in East Turkistan or Xinjiang province. They are actually facing a cultural and demographic genocide, but unfortunately, their plight […]
Continue Reading
In the last couple of weeks India has managed to administer 54 crore doses to Indian citizens. Out of which approximately 28 crore doses have been administered to men and 25 crore doses have been administered to women. There seems to be a huge gap of 3 crore people between the two sexes. According to […]
Continue Reading
On July 31, 2021 Madhya Pradesh’s Minister for Medical Education when asked about the inflation in the country said the following: Sarang blames Nehru and his entire family for inflation happening today and claims that inflation has been on the rise since Nehru delivered a speech on the Red Fort on 15th August,1947. Fact Check: […]
Continue Reading
On May 28, 2015, Shashi Tharoor the Indian Politician and Author, gave a speech at Oxford Union. In this speech he criticizes the British Colonial Rule for damaging the Indian economy. Tharoor claimed that India’s share of the global economy declined from 23% to 4 % under the British. This claim is supported by the […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
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 […]
Continue Reading
Nisar Siddiqui (Research Fellow DFRAC) Fake News is a type of hoax or deliberate spread of misinformation with the intent to mislead in order to gain financially or politically. Fake News is related to propaganda whose purpose is to spread information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicise a particular […]
Continue Reading
Newspapers are till date the most authenticated source of news. Simply because they are the only medium of information which once published can’t be changed or edited or modified. A popular phrase in newsrooms is ‘what we print is history, rest is mystery.” Newspapers as well as magazines’ reports are presented after years and even […]
Continue Reading
One of the famous US news website reported this months that in December 2020, Russian state had apparently launched a cyberespionage attack on the U.S. software firm Solar Winds, giving hackers access to a mine of data on U.S. government and private company IP and personnel.In March 2021, it also came to knowledge that Chinese […]
Continue Reading