Fake News

Convener Parveen suggests public punishment for such offenders

Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan assures media of government’s support for responsible journalism

New survey reveals 86% of internet users admit being duped by fake news

Respondents said they want both governments and social media companies to crack down on these activities

Colombo shut down internet access in March last year to prevent anti-Muslim violence

News item are blown out of proportion, than generalised and the negativity maximised

A quality that the city-state wants to nurture under plans to expand its tech industry

Opposition MPAs quit standing committees for being denied development funds

As its latest report showed a lack of progress in some areas

Pupils attending International Baccalaureate schools will be taught the new course ‘Digital Society’

Some go as far as to call the phenomenon a state-led attack

Offenders can be punished with jail terms ranging up to 10 years for using false online account

AFP fact-checks photo of an Israeli Air Force pilot who died in a helicopter crash six years ago

One video of a 2014 military air show in Islamabad was used to push false claims in India

64 per cent of Indians surveyed have encountered fake news

Media reports viewed thousands of times on Facebook claimed Lahore airport will soon start selling alcohol

India is WhatsApp's biggest market with more than 200 million users

The state of New York in a case that, for the first time, established such activity as illegal

European Parliament will hold elections in May

Researchers surveyed a sample of 3500 US adults who were matched with their Facebook profiles

German journalist resigns this month after admitting to making up stories and inventing protagonists in his articles

The fake statement is an attempt to defame Express News as well as the foreign minister

It says emotional desire to bolster national identity more important than facts

The American public can mitigate these efforts by remaining informed, reporting suspicious activity

The mechanism should scrutinise and identify owners of fake accounts

Facebook and Twitter remain filled with extremist, sensationalist, conspiratorial, masked commentary

With a network of at least 53 websites spreading false information about the Saudi government

The Presidential campaign has reached "a scope never before seen" and is a "constant worry"

New dataset released by micro-blogging platform reveal network of users peddling fake news for political gain

'AWD News' was linked by ThinkProgress to a fake news and social media campaign originating out of Iran

The voluntary code covers closer scrutiny of advertising on accounts and websites

More than 300 US newspapers have pledged to run editorials on Thursday defending freedom of the press

Special Counsel Mueller is examining whether Trump campaign members colluded with Russia

The social media giant tried to determine who created pages ahead of congressional elections in November

Facebook has increasingly become a focus of the media committee’s inquiry

Donald Trump has been at frequent loggerheads with CNN since taking office

Lack of verification enables further spread of fake news stories

The social networking platform is working with election commission to ‘maintain integrity of the election process’

'To fight fake news we all need to work together - technology companies, the government and community groups'

Young press program teaches Brazilian students to combat misinformation

Many see Facebook as being the main vehicle for spreading false information in recent years

Not only are we grappling with what is news and what is not but also what platform to deliver it on and how

Fake news phenomenon is a tough problem to address

More than 9.9 million “potentially spammy” or automated accounts have been identified and challenged per week

Authorities in north-eastern India have cut internet access after crazed mobs beat three people to death

Elections a transparent publicly funded competition to see who it was that got a ticket to ride for the next few years

Clips of the Pakistani social experiment have circulated around India, with parts of it being edited out

Strategy involves suing media houses for running unverified news

Most of these salient features mentioned in the EJN bulletin could be applicable to Pakistan’s media scene

All departments told to make pages, hire staff to run them and engage with people in polite manner