The co-founder of a factchecking website has been arrested by police in Delhi weeks after he highlighted derogatory comments made by a spokesperson for Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) about the prophet Muhammad. Mohammed Zubair, who set up… Read More »Delhi police arrest Muslim journalist Mohammed Zubair over tweet from 2018
Peter Dutton has sought leave to appeal in the high court against his loss in the defamation case he brought against Shane Bazzi, questioning whether there had been a “miscarriage of justice”. The Liberal party leader has filed an application… Read More »Peter Dutton asks high court for permission to appeal against defamation case loss to Shane Bazzi
The federal government needs to take action against encrypted messaging apps like Telegram to curb the rise of far-right extremism, a Victorian inquiry has been told. Dr Belinda Barnet, a media lecturer at Swinburne University, told a hearing that far-right… Read More »Encrypted messaging apps should be regulated to tackle extremism, Victorian inquiry hears
One of the pregnant women pictured escaping the ruins of the Mariupol maternity ward bombed by Russia has given birth to a daughter. Mariana Vishegirskaya, wearing the same dotted pyjamas she was pictured in as she struggled down the stairs… Read More »Ukraine woman who escaped Mariupol maternity ward gives birth
Trucks carrying large cylindrical containers sweep down a snowy road to a soundtrack of hollering and an alarming, if amateurish, caption: “RUSIA NUCLEAR BOMB”. The video was taken down, but not before it received 18m views. Welcome to the Russia-Ukraine… Read More »War as seen on TikTok: Ukraine clips get views whether true or not
When David Fisman tweets, he often receives a deluge of hate within moments of posting. Fisman, an epidemiologist and physician, has been outspoken about Covid and public health. Even when he tweets something innocuous – once, to test his theory,… Read More »‘Bot holiday’: Covid disinformation down as social media pivot to Ukraine
Police in Poland have warned that fake reports of violent crimes being committed by people fleeing Ukraine are circulating on social media after Polish nationalists attacked and abused groups of African, south Asian and Middle Eastern people who had crossed… Read More »People of colour fleeing Ukraine attacked by Polish nationalists
Donald Trump’s rightwing riposte to Twitter – his new social media app Truth Social – is supposed to launch on Monday. But the rollout of what the former president hopes will be the start of a new media empire continues… Read More »Trump Truth Social app will be fully operational by end of March, Nunes says
Donald Trump’s new social media venture, Truth Social, appears set to launch in Apple’s App Store on Monday, according to posts from an executive on a test version viewed by Reuters, potentially marking the return of the former president to… Read More »Trump’s social media app to be released in App Store on Monday: executive
A reporter who infiltrated Éric Zemmour’s presidential election team has claimed he witnessed a culture of casual racism and a covert online campaign involving a “shadow Facebook army” and repeated rewrites of the far-right polemicist’s Wikipedia page, the most viewed… Read More »French reporter infiltrates campaign of far-right presidential candidate Éric Zemnour