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[PICTURE] India ranked as #1 country in dissemination of fake news

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Yup.

Not surprised at all. :inti
Bangladesh is also tagged in red along with India. Is this a case of author don't know Bangladesh is a separate country or it is also as infamous in fake news as India?

This is a 'saazish' by Pakistan. :inti
No need to act holier than thou. Pakistan is in dark Amber zone which means between 4th - 6th.

Considering Pakistan has a significantly lower population than India, it is alarming they are either 4th, 5th or 6th in the list of most fake stories.

It is more of a case of OP being pot calling kettle black.
 
Bangladesh is also tagged in red along with India. Is this a case of author don't know Bangladesh is a separate country or it is also as infamous in fake news as India?


No need to act holier than thou. Pakistan is in dark Amber zone which means between 4th - 6th.

Considering Pakistan has a significantly lower population than India, it is alarming they are either 4th, 5th or 6th in the list of most fake stories.

It is more of a case of OP being pot calling kettle black.
Instead of feeling jealous of lower-ranked Pakistan and Bangladesh, let's come together and celebrate our victory. :inti

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Fake News propaganda factory or False flag factory is Pakistan.

Even Pakistan DGISPR used a doctored videos of Indian army PC .

Pakistan Navy spokesperson used a 3 year old picture in recent MEDIA PC

Pakistan most SR journalist Hamid Mir used a dozens old videos of Indian jets to count in recent battlefield or he even used a rajasthan fire factory video to show udhampur base fake news 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥲🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Theses are Just small examples .

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Instead of feeling jealous of lower-ranked Pakistan and Bangladesh, let's come together and celebrate our victory. :inti

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No one is jealous...I am just correcting it.

More population = more social media access = more news

India population - 1.5 billion, BD population - 171 million, Pak population - 247 million

You do the math

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We should be merging this thread with the existing one @BouncerGuy


If this thread was opened by me, it would have been merged or binned in a heartbeat

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Fake news propaganda factory is Pakistan . Or false flag sarrrr @The Bald Eagle 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣:kp
LOl... you are crazy bruh.... Are you saying that WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM REPORT IS FROM PAKISTAN???

crazy delusions here...LOL

We should be merging this thread with the existing one @BouncerGuy


If this thread was opened by me, it would have been merged or binned in a heartbeat

:kp

merging won't change the fact that India is number 1... LOL

Source here https://www.statista.com/chart/31605/rank-of-misinformation-disinformation-among-selected-countries/
 
We should be merging this thread with the existing one @BouncerGuy


If this thread was opened by me, it would have been merged or binned in a heartbeat

:kp
Congratulations, you have successfully forced the mods to merge yet another thread just because its headline hurt your eyes. :kp :inti
 
We should be merging this thread with the existing one @BouncerGuy


If this thread was opened by me, it would have been merged or binned in a heartbeat

:kp
Can we update the thread title to India is ranked number #1 in fake news since its now official

@The Bald Eagle @BouncerGuy
 
LOl... you are crazy bruh.... Are you saying that WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM REPORT IS FROM PAKISTAN???

crazy delusions here...LOL



merging won't change the fact that India is number 1... LOL

Source here https://www.statista.com/chart/31605/rank-of-misinformation-disinformation-among-selected-countries/
Fake News propaganda factory or False flag factory is Pakistan.

Even Pakistan DGISPR used a doctored videos of Indian army PC .

Pakistan Navy spokesperson used a 3 year old picture in recent MEDIA PC

Pakistan most SR journalist Hamid Mir used a dozens old videos of Indian jets to count in recent battlefield or he even used a rajasthan fire factory video to show udhampur base fake news 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥲🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Theses are Just small examples .

:kp

I don't care about ranking just like Rizwan or babar No. 1 T20 rankings were fraud.

I have seen enough in recent conflicts between india & pakistan and for God sake Pakistani were spreading fake news after fake news, unfortunately indian Tv Channels are not far behind from Pakistan .

I already showed the few example in my above post.

Dp you know pakistan Forgien minister recently showed a fake newspaper photography in pakistan parliament .

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One thing is fake news, but I just don't understand how educated people in India can accept the way prime-time talk shows are run on channels like Times Now, Republic TV, and other Godi media channels. They have completely buried the principles of journalism, which should be objective and listen to all sides. They invite participants who disagree with them, and this is how the shows go:

  • Whenever the opposing side starts speaking, the anchor interrupts them, lowers their volume, and instead asks panelists who share his views to speak over them.
  • Whenever panelists from BJP or other ultra-nationalist groups speak, there is complete silence; they can go on and on without any interruption.
  • When the opposing side asks a genuine question that the anchor or his supporters can't answer, they simply change the topic.
The same thing happens day in and day out. How can people with clear minds allow this and be brainwashed by it? Something is seriously wrong here.
 
On what basis the title of the thread was changed to #1 in 2025?

What is the source of this information? The statistics that @emranabbas shared was from 2023.

Another case of @The Bald Eagle is not fact checking before updating something. :facepalm:

Sad to see how biased moderation has become

Title change karke kya hoga....sach sabko maloom hai

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Last survery was conducted in 2024 for the year 2023 so currently as it stands in 2025 it's still India

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Indian News is fake, its not fake.. Red, amber or green....
Right now the only thing on mind is what on earth does GODI refer to???
 
As many as 265 fake local news websites in more that 65 countries, including the US, Canada, Brussels and Geneva, are managed by Indian influence networks with the aim of influencing international institutions along with elected representatives and swaying the public perception of Pakistan

The sites @Rajdeep and his friends visit 🤣

 
One thing is fake news, but I just don't understand how educated people in India can accept the way prime-time talk shows are run on channels like Times Now, Republic TV, and other Godi media channels. They have completely buried the principles of journalism, which should be objective and listen to all sides. They invite participants who disagree with them, and this is how the shows go:

  • Whenever the opposing side starts speaking, the anchor interrupts them, lowers their volume, and instead asks panelists who share his views to speak over them.
  • Whenever panelists from BJP or other ultra-nationalist groups speak, there is complete silence; they can go on and on without any interruption.
  • When the opposing side asks a genuine question that the anchor or his supporters can't answer, they simply change the topic.
The same thing happens day in and day out. How can people with clear minds allow this and be brainwashed by it? Something is seriously wrong here.
Every country has biased media. Infact, there are no independent media channels anywhere.

You think Republic & Times now is biased but from where we right wingers look at it we find likes of wire.in and newslaundry are biased. So it is all about perspective.

United States has most bias media houses in the world. There is a reason CNN is termed as Fake News by president. Do you think likes of MSNBC and Fox news are not biased? LOL
 
Every country has biased media. Infact, there are no independent media channels anywhere.

You think Republic & Times now is biased but from where we right wingers look at it we find likes of wire.in and newslaundry are biased. So it is all about perspective.

United States has most bias media houses in the world. There is a reason CNN is termed as Fake News by president. Do you think likes of MSNBC and Fox news are not biased? LOL
Yes you absolutely right

But India are #1 😍

So if there are 2 sources of information ie India and pakistan then Pakistan is more likely to be trusted
 
Every country has biased media. Infact, there are no independent media channels anywhere.

You think Republic & Times now is biased but from where we right wingers look at it we find likes of wire.in and newslaundry are biased. So it is all about perspective.

United States has most bias media houses in the world. There is a reason CNN is termed as Fake News by president. Do you think likes of MSNBC and Fox news are not biased? LOL
But your media top the chart, and that too undisputedly as per latest stats
 
Every country has biased media. Infact, there are no independent media channels anywhere.

You think Republic & Times now is biased but from where we right wingers look at it we find likes of wire.in and newslaundry are biased. So it is all about perspective.

United States has most bias media houses in the world. There is a reason CNN is termed as Fake News by president. Do you think likes of MSNBC and Fox news are not biased? LOL
Have you even read my post? Being Biased doesn't mean you are rude and disrespect other people. This is what your media is doing and I am sure this is not happening in USA. Even guys like Piers Morgan doesn't itnerrupt people like the anchors on your channels do. I can't believe there can be so much difference between Pakistani and Indian channels.
 

AI and deepfakes blur reality in India elections​


In November last year, Muralikrishnan Chinnadurai was watching a livestream of a Tamil-language event in the UK when he noticed something odd.
A woman introduced as Duwaraka, daughter of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tamil Tiger militant chief, was giving a speech.
The problem was that Duwaraka had died more than a decade earlier, in an airstrike in 2009 during the closing days of the
Sri Lankan civil war. The then-23-year-old's body was never found.

And now, here she was - seemingly a middle-aged woman - exhorting Tamilians across the world to take forward the political struggle for their freedom.

Mr Chinnadurai, a fact-checker in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, watched the video closely, noticed glitches in the video and soon pinned it down to being a figure generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

The potential problems were immediately clear to Mr Chinnadurai: "This is an emotive issue in the state [Tamil Nadu] and with elections around the corner, the misinformation could quickly spread."

As India goes to the polls, it is impossible to avoid the wealth of AI-generated content being created - from campaign videos, to personalised audio messages in a range of Indian languages, and even automated calls made to voters in a candidate's voice.

Content creators like Shahid Sheikh have even had fun using AI tools to show Indian politicians in avatars we haven't seen them in before: wearing athleisure, playing music and dancing.

But as the tools get more sophisticated, experts worry about its implications when it comes to making fake news appear real.

"Rumours have always been a part of electioneering. [But] in the age of social media, it can spread like wildfire," says SY Qureshi, the country's former chief election commissioner.

"It can actually set the country on fire."

India's political parties are not the first in the world to take advantage of recent developments in AI. Just over the border in Pakistan, it allowed jailed politician Imran Khan to address a rally.

And in India itself, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also already made the best of the emerging technology to campaign effectively - addressing an audience in Hindi which, by using the government-created AI tool Bhashini, was then translated into Tamil in real time.

But it can also be used to manipulate words and messages.

Last month, two viral videos showed Bollywood stars Ranveer Singh and Aamir Khan campaigning for the opposition Congress party. Both filed police complaints saying these were deepfakes, made without their consent.
Then, on 29 April, Prime Minister Modi raised concerns about AI being used to distort speeches by senior leaders of the ruling party, including him.

The next day, police arrested two people, one each from the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress party, in connection with a doctored video of Home Minister Amit Shah.

Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has also faced similar accusations from opposition leaders in the country.

The problem is - despite the arrests - there is no comprehensive regulation in place, according to experts.

Which means "if you're caught doing something wrong, then there might be a slap on your wrist at best", according to Srinivas Kodali, a data and security researcher.

In the absence of regulation, creators told the BBC they have to rely on personal ethics to decide the kind of work they choose to do or not do.

The BBC learned that, among the requests from politicians, were pornographic imagery and morphing of videos and audios of their rivals to damage their reputation.

"I was once asked to make an original look like a deepfake because the original video, if shared widely, would make the politician look bad," reveals Divyendra Singh Jadoun.

"So his team wanted me to create a deepfake that they could pass off as the original."

Mr Jadoun, founder of The Indian Deepfaker (TID), which created tools to help people use open source AI software to create campaign material for Indian politicians, insists on putting disclaimers on anything he makes so it is clear it is not real.
But it is still hard to control.

Mr Sheikh, who works with a marketing agency in the eastern state of West Bengal, has seen his work shared without permission or credit by politicians or political pages on social media.

"One politician used an image I created of Mr Modi without context and without mentioning it was created using AI," he says.
And it is now so easy to create a deepfake that anyone can do it.

"What used to take us seven or eight days to create can now be done in three minutes," Mr Jadoun explains. "You just need to have a computer."

Indeed, the BBC got a first-hand look at just how easy it is to create a fake phone call between two people - in this case, me and former US president Donald Trump.

Despite the risks, India had initially said it wasn't considering a law for AI. This March, however, it sprung into action after a furore over Google's Gemini chatbot response to a query asking: "Is Modi a fascist?"

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the country's junior information technology minister, said it had violated the country's IT laws.
Since then, the Indian government has asked tech companies to get its explicit permission before publicly launching "unreliable" or "under-tested" generative AI models or tools. It has also warned against responses by these tools that "threaten the integrity of the electoral process".

But it isn't enough: fact-checkers say keeping up with debunking such content is an uphill task, particularly during the elections when misinformation hits a peak.

"Information travels at the speed of 100km per hour," says Mr Chinnadurai, who runs a media watchdog in Tamil Nadu. "The debunked information we disseminate will go at 20km per hour."

And these fakes are even making their way into the mainstream media, says Mr Kodali. Despite this, the "election commission is publicly silent on AI".

"There are no rules at large," Mr Kodali says. "They're letting the tech industry self-regulate instead of coming up with actual regulations."

There isn't a foolproof solution in sight, experts say.

"But [for now] if action is taken against people forwarding fakes, it might scare others against sharing unverified information," says Mr Qureshi.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68918330.
 
Indians propagated many fake news/misinformation about Bangladesh after Hasina was ousted. They did the same during conflicts with Pakistan. They also did the same using AI during the 2024 Indian election.

I do not trust any Indian source. Not a single source. I always verify with other non-Indian sources. :inti
 
Go to any thread even remotely related to India and the map will be proven right every time.

It is their inferiority complex due to being ruled over for centuries that now to feel on equal fitting they have to lie about themselves. First it was lying about being a superpower to feel on equal footing with modern day empire of US and China, but once they got their nose bloodied by a “beggar nation” as they call it in warfare, let alone by a China or a USA, now they are lying about that too. But the world is privy to their lies now. Sad really.
 
Not surprised at all. It's easy selling fake news to a hardcore illeterate blinded by extreme nationalism and religious extremism (Hindutva). This is why facism only ruins societies and take entire country backward which has happened to India in last decade or so. The amount of hatred and mental backwardness they have their due to a facist Hindutva regime of BJP and RSS says it all about a country which falls for comics sold as news. Very similar to Trump fans, but with a far worse as you observe all over their social media and media
 
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How misinformation overtook Indian newsrooms amid conflict with Pakistan

Journalists from some of India’s largest news networks spoke to The Post about why falsehoods filled the airwaves during a crucial and dangerous moment.

June 4, 2025
By Karishma Mehrotra

NEW DELHI — Shortly after midnight on May 9, an Indian journalist received a WhatsApp message from Prasar Bharati, the state-owned public broadcaster. Pakistan’s army chief had been arrested, the message read, and a coup was underway.

Within minutes, the journalist posted the information on X, and others followed suit. Soon enough, it was splashed across major Indian news networks and went viral on social media.

The “breaking news” was entirely false. There had been no coup in Pakistan. Gen. Asim Munir, far from being behind bars, would soon be elevated to the rank of field marshal.

It was the most glaring — but far from the only — example of how misinformation swept through Indian newsrooms last month during several of the most violent nights between the nuclear-armed neighbors in decades.

The Washington Post spoke to more than two dozen journalists from some of India’s most influential news networks, as well as to current and former Indian officials, about how the country’s information ecosystem became inundated with falsehoods — and how it warped the public’s understanding of a crucial moment. The journalists spoke on the condition that their names and employers remain anonymous, fearing professional reprisals. Most of the officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.

As the fighting escalated night after night, few Indian officials were put forward to explain what was happening, said Nirupama Rao, India’s former foreign secretary. The vacuum was filled on television newscasts by “hypernationalism” and “abnormal triumphalism,” Rao said, creating what she called a “parallel reality.”

Times Now Navbharat reported that Indian forces had entered Pakistan; TV9 Bharatvarsh told viewers that Pakistan’s prime minister had surrendered; Bharat Samachar said he was hiding in a bunker. All of them, along with some of the country’s largest channels — including Zee News, ABP News and NDTV — repeatedly proclaimed that major Pakistani cities had been destroyed.

To support the false claims, networks aired unrelated visuals from conflicts in Gaza and Sudan, from a plane crash in Philadelphia — and even scenes from video games.

Zee News, NDTV, ABP News, Bharat Samachar, TV9 Bharatvarsh, Times Now and Prasar Bharati did not respond to requests for comment.

“It’s the most dangerous version of what a section of TV news channels have been doing for a decade, completely unchecked,” said Manisha Pande, media critic and managing editor of Newslaundry, an independent news outlet. “At this point, they’re like Frankenstein’s monsters — completely out of control.”

‘Bad fiction writers’

India has one of the most expansive and linguistically diverse media landscapes in the world. Nine hundred television channels attract millions of viewers each evening across Indian towns and cities; newspapers still have a wide reach in rural areas.

Over many decades, the country’s independent press has played a critical role in exposing government corruption and holding power to account. In the past decade, however, particularly in television news, that independence has been eroded.

Some of India’s largest channels now routinely echo government talking points, analysts say — out of ideological alignment with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party or as a result of pressure from the state, which has prosecuted journalists under terrorism, sedition and defamation laws, and has used regulatory threats and tax probes to silence critical voices.

Pande also attributes the shift to opportunism. “For most of these anchors, aligning with power is a calculated career move,” she said.

Journalists in these newsrooms were dismayed by the lack of fact-checking during the conflict. “Journalism has just become anything that lands on your WhatsApp from whoever,” said one journalist with a leading English-language news channel. “You realize the cost of that at times like this.”

Just before midnight on May 8, in a WhatsApp message exchange seen by The Post, a journalist with a major Hindi-language network messaged colleagues: “Indian navy can carry out an attack imminently,” citing unnamed sources. Another staffer responded simply, “Karachi,” but gave no details on sourcing. Within minutes, the channel was falsely reporting that the Indian navy had struck the port in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city.

“The channels were taken over by bad fiction writers,” a network employee said.

A journalist in a different newsroom said their channel ran the story after confirmation from the Indian navy and air force. India’s military did not respond to a request for comment.

Others admitted to airing the story based on claims from social media influencers closely aligned with the ruling party, or posts from open-source intelligence accounts.

Sweta Singh, a popular anchor on India Today, declared on air that “Karachi is seeing its worst nightmare after 1971,” referring to the most devastating war between the two countries. “It completely finishes Pakistan,” she added. Singh did not respond to requests for comment.

Around 8 a.m. on May 9, the Karachi Port Trust posted on X that no attack had occurred. But some Hindi newspapers had already published the news on their front pages.

As erroneous reports ricocheted across Indian channels, retired military officials gave them credence in freewheeling panel discussions. Breaking-news banners were accompanied by the swoosh of illustrated fighter jets. At one point, the government issued a public advisory urging broadcasters to refrain from using air raid sirens in their graphics, warning it could desensitize the public to real emergencies.

Across the border, Pakistani media outlets pushed their own falsehoods — that India had bombed Afghanistan and that Pakistan had destroyed India’s army brigade headquarters. Some of the false claims came directly from Pakistani military spokesperson Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry during live news conferences; in one, Chaudhry showed a clip from an Indian news conference that had been misleadingly edited to remove a phrase, giving the false impression that India hadn’t accused Pakistan of hitting civilian infrastructure.

“We stand by the information shared and press releases issued based on verified intelligence and digital evidence available to us,” the media wing of the Pakistani army said in a statement to The Post.

Competition drove much of the chaos in India. On NDTV, the country’s most-watched news channel according to the Reuters Institute at Oxford University, a hot mic caught a reporter in the field venting his frustration to the control room: “First you keep saying, ‘Give an update, give an update,’ and then later you say, ‘Why did you give something fake?’”

During a talk show on the Hindi news channel Aaj Tak, a young man in the audience asked about “the embarrassment we have faced from the international community when our news channels were spreading unverified information.” The reporter swung the microphone away before he could finish the question.

A head of public relations for TV Today, which runs Aaj Tak and India Today, did not respond to requests for comment.

“I felt depressed at the state of affairs,” an anchor at a leading English-language news channel told The Post. “It’s time to introspect.”

Information war

As strikes between the countries intensified each night, Indian officials, led by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, would generally wait until morning to brief the press.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first public remarks on the conflict came two days after the May 10 ceasefire; Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar shared only a one-line post on X during the clashes.

The vacuum was filled by television anchors. “We’ve lost the information war to these characters,” said a former Indian navy admiral.

But one senior Indian national security official said the misinformation played to India’s advantage. If lower-level government sources deliberately spread false claims, it was to “take advantage of the information space” and create “as much confusion as possible because they know the enemy is watching,” the official said.

“Sometimes the collateral is your own audience, but that is how it is,” the official added. “That is how war has evolved.”

The problem, said Rao, the former foreign secretary, is that “television channels were using a megaphone. We need to use a microphone with a voice that is obviously viewed as credible.”

The frenzy of falsehoods has led to private soul-searching in many newsrooms, journalists said, but few public apologies. In a rare admission on Aaj Tak, an anchor said in Hindi that “despite our vigilance,” there had been “incomplete” reporting. “For this, we seek your forgiveness,” she said.

Other journalists have doubled down. Sushant Sinha, an anchor for Times Now Navbharat who declared on air that Indian tanks had entered Pakistan, posted an eight-minute monologue defending his coverage. “Every channel did make at least one mistake, but not one of our mistakes was against this country,” he said.

 
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