Fake News and Hate Speech spoiled Democracy

Around the world, and more specifically in India, disinformation is spreading and becoming a successful phenomenon of deception. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how fast and wide information can spread: so fast, that the phenomenon has been given the name, “infodemic”. This disinformation, in Indian context, is broadly categorized into two — fake news and […]

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Chinese espionage group targets newfound weaknesses in Exchange, targets giant companies in South-East Asia

At the Security Analyst Summit that took place on September 30,2021, during which the security company Kaspersky Lab released a report on a new cyber espionage group called GhostEmperor who have been using new techniques to launch cyberattacks on servers.  The main target of GhostEmperor is government and telecommunications services in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia even […]

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In a massive move, YouTube changes its policy on Health Misinformation

On September 29, 2021, the Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube amended its community guidelines to fight misinformation related to health and particularly vaccines. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were at the forefront of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and combating misinformation with regards to COVID-19, its effects and vaccines used. YouTube released these updated guidelines […]

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Decoding Taliban’s use of social media and the anti-Taliban influencers of Afghanistan

During Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, the organization completely banned the use of internet and destroyed the citizen’s phones, televisions and cameras in a bid to keep technology out of reach for them. However this approach was drastically changed when their leaders realized just how many avenues the internet opens for those […]

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