Deepfakes in an election year — is Asia ready to handle fake news?
2024 is set up to be the biggest global election year in history. It coincides with the rapid rise in deepfakes. In APAC alone, there was a surge in deepfakes …
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Singapore opposition chief quits in wake of fake news allegations
Leong Mun Wai, a top opposition lawmaker, stepped down as chief of the Progress Singapore Party, shortly after the government invoked the fake news law against him. Hazel Poa was …
Google pauses ‘absurdly woke’ Gemini AI chatbot’s image tool after backlash over historically inaccurate pictures
Google said Thursday it would “pause” its Gemini chatbot’s image generation tool after it was widely panned for creating “diverse” images that were not historically or factually accurate — such …
CBSE to Take Stern Action Against Those Spreading Fake News And Rumours
Home Education ‘Vigilant And Active’: CBSE to Take Stern Action Against Those Spreading Fake News And Rumours Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday said that the board is …
Taiwan’s Lai Ching-te, denounced as a separatist by Beijing, wins presidential vote
Taiwanese voters swept the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential candidate Lai Ching-te into power on Saturday in an explicit rejection of China’s warnings not to vote for him in …
Former President Ram Nath Kovind Urges Graduating Students To Fight Fake News, Misinformation
Home Education IIMC 55th Convocation: Former President Kovind Urges Graduating Students To Fight Fake News, Misinformation “Stay away from the trend of sensationalizing news to garner more TRPs; preserve the …
Russian antiwar activist could lose Canadian citizenship bid over conviction abroad
A critic of the Kremlin could be barred from obtaining Canadian citizenship because she has to prove to immigration officials here that it isn’t a crime in Canada to criticize …
Fake posts about Japan earthquake put spotlight on nuisance actors, scammers: ‘all about money’
The Japanese government is calling on the public not to be taken in by fake social media posts with inaccurate information about the earthquake that struck the central region on …
Olive oil is getting more expensive — and these Italian farmers can tell you why
On a warm, blustery December afternoon outside the De Laurentis olive oil-producing co-op in the white hilltop town of Ostuni, Puglia, Luigi D’Amico holds out his palm, revealing an olive …
Sports Illustrated Duped Readers With Fake AI-Created Writers
The parent company that owns the storied and once-lauded magazine Sports Illustrated has been shoveling more AI slop into its readers’ eyeballs. Instead of telling its audience the garbled, nonsensical …