An infrastructure of censorship is emerging, enabling the Central and various State governments to take social media content down using existing laws and rules. Independent media outlets and online critics now find their reach at a precipice. Aroon Deep reports on how in an environment of misinformation and deepfakes, opposing voices also become targets
The widely circulated image had prompted authorities to move their search operation.
Conspiracies are running rampant online after the deaths or disappearances of at least 10 people tied to sensitive US research.
With the rise of social media and generative AI, how much of what we see online is true? In this series, SCMP Fact-Check, the South China Morning Post investigates claims circulating online and debunks viral misinformation impacting the daily lives of Hongkongers. A video circulating online amid the US-Israel war on Iran falsely claims to show a downed American pilot captured alive by Iranians. “Iranians Captured F35 Pilot alive,” read the caption of a Facebook reel. The video appeared to show a...
The RJD leaders have been accused of linking an incident in Madhya Pradesh, where a man was beaten up by police, to the ongoing labour protests in Noida, and of inciting tension by posting about the matter on X
Messages are being shared on WhatsApp as “official warnings”, claiming that temperatures in the State would rise between 45℃ and 55℃ from April 29 to May 12
The accused has been identified as Hemanth Kumar, 29, a resident of north Bengaluru working as a field executive in a private opticals company