NEW DELHI (NYTIMES)- After a suicide bombing on Feb 14 in the disputed border region of Kashmir, India accused neighbouring Pakistan of harbouring the terrorists who it said had orchestrated the attack. The two countries quickly traded airstrikes.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW DELHI - After a suicide bombing on Feb 14 in the disputed border region of Kashmir, India accused neighbouring Pakistan of harbouring the terrorists who it said had orchestrated the attack. The two countries quickly traded airstrikes.One clip that circulated widely on Facebook and other services purported to show an aerial assault by India on an alleged terrorist camp in Pakistan. It was, in fact, taken from a video game.
On Monday , the company said it had removed hundreds of misleading pages and accounts associated with the BJP and its main rival, the Indian National Congress, many of which were publishing false information. Facebook also removed more than 100 fake pages and accounts controlled by the Pakistani military.
"India's elections present a unique set of issues, including a large number of languages and an extended time period for voting," said Ms Katie Harbath, Facebook's public policy head for global elections. She said the company had been planning for the election for more than a year. India is one of Facebook's most important electoral tests this year, company officials said, along with major elections in places including the Philippines and Indonesia. Facebook's performance will be a prelude for how it navigates a likely onslaught of propaganda, false information and foreign meddling during the 2020 presidential election in the US.
Facebook has since downplayed its connection to politicians around the world, including Mr Modi, amid a rise in political misinformation. Facebook's algorithms flag potentially fake posts to the fact-checkers, who decide which ones to investigate. After they publish their findings on Facebook, the company said it reduces the visibility of false posts.
A separate Facebook effort to assemble a broad coalition of Indian news organisations to combat false news during the election has been delayed amid funding problems and the departure of a key journalist who had worked on it. For example, Mr Raja Singh, a fiery right-wing Hindu legislator in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, refers to Muslims as"cow killers" - an inflammatory phrase that has led to some deaths since the country's Hindu majority considers cows to be sacred.
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