Combating misinformation in the digital age in Pakistan
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Friday May 28, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged more people to turn to social media for information, but one may have to navigate around quite a bit of misinformation too.
There have been significant surges in the use of platforms like Twitter, WhatsApp, Zoom and Facebook.
In an analysis of data from February 26 to April 9, 2020, a report by Dawn suggested a 22.84% increase in desktop usage of Twitter in Pakistan. This is the initial period of the pandemic.
Twitter has attempted to reduce the instances of widespread sharing of disinformation with policies like the ‘COVID-19 misleading information policy’. But fake news still does often go undetected and accurate news posts are removed.
9 January 2021
Author: Imtiaz Gul, CRSS Islamabad
For nearly 15 years, a network comprising over a thousand mostly Indian news outlets and domains operating across the world systematically influenced international opinion against Pakistan. Unquestioned by key officials in the United States and Europe, these sources of motivated information and disinformation constituted an essential part of a pro-India group’s campaign against Pakistan.
Much mainstream commentary on Pakistan remains largely unforgiving and negatively biased. Senior state dignitaries from the United States and Europe have resonated the views espoused by websites and newspapers recently called out for spreading disinformation.
On 9 December 2020, Brussels-based fake news watchdog EU DisinfoLab blew the lid off a systematic campaign stoking adverse views on Pakistan: a concerted program under the umbrella of the shadowy Delhi-based Srivastava Group. EU DisinfoLab dug up startling revelations of a massive cross-con
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Author: Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. (E-mail: awanzamir@yahoo.com).
A Brussels-based NGO working to fight disinformation against the European Union has unearthed a 15-year-old operation run by an Indian entity that used hundreds of fake media outlets and a dead professor s identity to target Pakistan.
The EU DisinfoLab, in its report, Indian Chronicles: deep dive into a 15-year operation targeting the EU and United Nations to serve Indian interests, characterized this as the largest network of disinformation they have uncovered so far.
New Delhi, India – A Brussels-based NGO working to combat disinformation against the European Union has unearthed a 15-year-old operation run by an Indian entity that used hundreds of fake media outlets and the identity of a dead professor to target Pakistan.
The EU DisinfoLab in its report, Indian Chronicles: deep dive into a 15-year operation targeting the EU and United Nations to serve Indian interests, termed this as the “largest network” of disinformation they have exposed so far.
The report released on Wednesday said the disinformation network run by the Srivastava Group, a New Delhi-based entity, was designed primarily to “discredit Pakistan internationally” and influence decision-making at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the European Parliament.
EU Disinfo Lab blows the lid off pro-India fake news apparatus! Investigation reveals 750 fake media outlets in 116 countries, impersonation, identity theft and even resurrection of the dead!
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An investigation by EU Disinfo Lab has made some startling revelations about how multiple media outlets, think tanks and non-government organisations (NGO) are surreptitiously pushing a pro-India agenda at various international fora including the United Nations (UN) as well as in the European Union (EU). Much of the content created and spread via the elaborate set-up unearthed by the investigators aimed at discrediting Pakistan, in a bid to further Indian interests.