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Government launches ‘MyGov Corona Helpdesk’ to curb misinformation on COVID-19

March 21, 2020

In order to curb the spread of misinformation and fake news on coronavirus and to reduce the panic among the citizens regarding the COVID-19, the Government of India has launched an official chatbot on the social media platform WhatsApp. This Chatbot is named ‘MyGov Corona Helpdesk’ and is available to all WhatsApp users. Any user ..

Google announces to launch training programme for journalists in India

June 19, 2018

Technology giant Google has recently announced the launch of a training programme for journalists with an aim to raise awareness against misinformation and providing new tools to the fourth estate against fake news. The Google News Initiative India Training Network will provide training to 8,000 journalists in English and six other Indian languages in the ..