{"id":126568,"date":"2022-12-08T14:29:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T08:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=126568"},"modified":"2022-12-08T14:29:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T08:59:16","slug":"google-launches-anti-misinformation-campaign-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/google-launches-anti-misinformation-campaign-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Launches Anti-Misinformation Campaign in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Google Launches Anti-Misinformation Campaign in India:<\/strong> Google\u2019s Jigsaw subsidiary\u00a0is launching a new anti-misinformation project in India, aimed at preventing misleading information that has been blamed for inciting violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More About This:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The campaign will make use of “prebunking” videos shared on the company’s YouTube channel and other social media platforms, which are intended to refute erroneous claims before they gain traction. Google\u2019s efforts to challenge the spread of misinformation mark a contrast with rival Twitter which is cutting its trust and safety teams, despite new owner Elon Musk saying it will not become a \u201cfree-for-all hellscape\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About The Transition:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google recently conducted an experiment in Europe where it sought to counter anti-refugee narratives online in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experiment in India will be bigger in scope as it will deal with multiple local languages \u2014 Bengali, Hindi and Marathi \u2014 and cover diverse sections of a country populated by over a billion people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Has Been Said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis presented an opportunity to research prebunking in a non-western, global south market,\u201d said Beth Goldman, Jigsaw\u2019s head of research and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like other countries, misinformation spreads rapidly across India, mostly through social media, creating political and religious tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Govt Of India\u2019s Approach:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials from the Indian government have urged tech giants like Google, Meta, and Twitter to do more to stop the spread of false information. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has repeatedly invoked \u201cextraordinary powers\u201d to block YouTube channels, and some Twitter and Facebook accounts, allegedly used to spread harmful misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inflammatory messages have also spread via Meta\u2019s messaging service Whatsapp, which has more than 200 million users in India. In 2018, the company curbed the number of times a message could be forwarded, after false claims about child abductors led to mass beatings of more than a dozen people, some of whom died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google Launches Anti-Misinformation Campaign in India: Google\u2019s Jigsaw subsidiary\u00a0is launching a new anti-misinformation project in India, aimed at preventing misleading information that has been blamed for inciting violence. More About This: The campaign will make use of “prebunking” videos shared on the company’s YouTube channel and other social media platforms, which are intended to refute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":126569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4992],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-126568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2022","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126570,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126568\/revisions\/126570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}