Fact Check: Misinformation through fake images, statements targeting candidates for reserved women seats

Rukaiya Jahan Chamak, actress and aspirant for reserved women’s seat from BNP, has also been made the target of propaganda. After not being nominated, a fabricated quote in his name was circulated, “The BNP removed me from the reserved MP list at the last moment because I demanded justice for Hadi’s assassination.” Fact-checking revealed that […]

Meta Quarterly Adverse Threat Report 2024: Misinformation on Facebook and links to ruling party exposed

According to the Meta report, many of these pages had a presence on multiple platforms, including YouTube, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, and Telegram, in addition to their own websites. Meta also mentioned several such websites, including dhakatv.net, bdpolitico.com, bdpolitico.org, banglanewsbank.com, bdperspectives.com, bangladeshtimes360.com, londonbanglanews.com, bdanalytics.com and bnpnews.net. The two associated X accounts are – BD Politico […]

Myanmar military's hate speech campaign on Facebook: UN investigation

Relationships between the pages were observed in a variety of ways: they often shared creators, administrators, and editors, and regularly posted content using the same IP addresses used by the Myanmar military. “This network often featured identical content posted on multiple pages, sometimes within a matter of minutes,” IIMM said. The investigators highlighted that the […]

Meta investigates global Facebook and Instagram outage: Users locked out worldwide

According to the DownDetector website, Facebook reported that about 500,000 users were down at 10:30 am US East Coast time (1530 GMT). Instagram reached nearly 70,000 reports at the same time. Threads, Twitter's rival, which launched in 2023, also suffered from reports of outages, although WhatsApp, Meta's messaging service, seemed to be spared. Facebook's status […]