The fake news advertising problem has now spread to fact-checking websites as Google put fake news advertisements on pages such as Snopes and PolitiFact, the New York Times reported.


Google serves fake news ads on fact-checking sites


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Reiterating their commitment to help the victims of sexual harassment, Kolkata Police said they are perturbed by the number of women joining the international #metoo campaign that has taken the social media by storm over the past few days.


#metoo campaign: Kolkata Police 'stand by sexual harassment victims'


Paris, Oct 18 (IANS/AKI) The head of the UN cultural organisation Unesco has condemned the killing of prominent investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was blown up in her car in Malta.


Unesco decries Maltese reporter's murder


The son of an investigative journalist killed in a car bomb attack in Malta has hit out bitterly at the island's "culture of impunity" and the "crooks" in charge.


Slain Panama Papers scribe's son slams Malta's 'crooks'


Uttar Pradesh Panchayati Raj Minister Bhupendra Singh Chowdhary on Monday said the government had decided to make the entire state open defecation free (ODF) by October 2, 2018.


UP to become ODF by Oct 2, 2018: Minister


BJP leader Sangeet Som was trolled on Twitter on Monday over his controversial comment calling the Taj Mahal a "blot" on Indian culture and history.


BJP leader trolled for calling Taj Mahal a 'blot'


The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder last month of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh on Saturday released three sketches of two persons suspected to be her killers.


SIT releases sketches of Lankesh murder suspects


As people debate Facebook's role in influencing people during the US presidential elections by Russian ads and fake news on the platform, the company's COO Sheryl Sandberg has stressed that the social media giant is not a media organisation, and therefore does not hire journalists.


Facebook doesn't hire journalists: Sheryl Sandberg


Cartoonist and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray on Wednesday paid a unique tribute to Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan on the actor's 75th birthday.


Raj Thackeray says 'Happy Birthday, Bachchan' with caricatures


The Congress state unit on Tuesday condemned Goa's BJP-led government's decision to ban journalists at the State Secretariat on Wednesdays when weekly Cabinet meetings are held.


Goa Congress condemns restrictions on media


Flipboard -- a personalised magazine application designed for phones, tablets and PCs -- on Tuesday announced the launch of a programme that would help publishers build new traffic.


Flipboard launches programme to help publishers


Less than a week after a video of a Chinese food stall in a North Goa village using dog meat for chicken went viral, police in a beach village on Monday arrested two persons from Manipur for killing a dog.


Two Manipuri youths held for killing dog in Goa


Slain journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh's family on Thursday demanded that investigators should not only catch her killers, but also find out the motive for the crime.


Want to know why Gauri Lankesh was killed: Family


A cross-sectional rally, comprising hundreds of students and activists, was organised here on Thursday denouncing the RSS and allied groups for the death of journalist Gauri Lankesh.


Rally marks one month of Lankesh's murder


Slain journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh will be posthumously awarded the Annual Anna Politkovskaya Award, an award for women human rights defenders from war and conflict zones, for her fearless journalism, it was announced on Thursday.


Gauri Lankesh named for Anna Politkovskaya Award



Massive rally marks one month of Gauri Lankesh's murder


Baghdad, Oct 5 (IANS/AKI) A photographer working with Iraqs military was killed in clashes on Wednesday during an assault to re-capture the northern town of Hawija, one of the Islamic State group's last strongholds, the IraqiNews.com news site reported.


Iraqi reporter killed during military offensive


Photographers, amateur or professional, usually like to capture beauty -- snow covered mountains, breathtaking flora and fauna, beautiful landscapes and the like, but her camera lens follows pictures of destruction and misery. Conflict photojournalist Heidi Levine who took breathtaking photographs of the Gaza war in 2014 has recently been in the news for one such photograph of hers being misused by Maliha Lodhi, Pakistan's Permanent Representative at the UN.


Heidi Levine: Capturing hope in destruction


The Bengali Service division of Voice of America (VOA), the international radio broadcasting service of the USA, which has seen a dip in its number of listeners in West Bengal, on Tuesday said they are planning to take their service fully online.


Voice of America's Bengali service may go digital soon


Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy on Monday said the investigation team probing the killing of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh has got "some clues" on the killers and knows who is behind it, but is waiting to gather more concrete evidence.


Got clues on Lankesh killers, says Karnataka Minister


Hundreds of journalists on Monday formed human chains at various places across the country to protest intimidation of the media and the killings of scribes, including the murders of Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru and Shantanu Bhowmick in Tripura, and to draw attention towards "increasing intolerance against criticism".

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