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YouTube Adding Information Panels To Videos To Alert Users Of Hoaxes

Popular video-streaming platform YouTube will now start adding information panels to videos in the search section to battle fake and hoax news. The infoboxes, available both in English and Hindi, will let users know whether or not the video he or she is searching for is reliable. To identify and label videos (mostly sensitive and controversial topics), YouTube will take help from […]

Facebook Loses Its Major Fact-Checking Partner Snopes After 2 Yrs

The famous fact-checking organization, Snopes has announced the end of its partnership with Facebook where it undertook the job of curbing misinformation and fake news on the platform. Facebook has ramped up its effort since the 2016 US presidential election where Russia’s social media influence came into focus — to stop the spreading of false information on […]