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India has many problems with media. Fake news media, crypto fake media, deep fake media. Fake media is easy to identify. Crypto media and deep fake is more diff

by iamsb 7y ago

India has many problems with media. Fake news media, crypto fake media, deep fake media. Fake media is easy to identify. Crypto media and deep fake is more difficult. Recently google sponsored data journalism award was given to one of the most partisan website. And new think tanks which are sponsored by unknown forces come up all the time. One of the recent ones which I am investigating is called equality labs which recently did a dubious study claiming that there is absolutely no abuse of a majority group on Internet by a minority group. A simple search can disapprove that in seconds.

gabcoh 7y ago
What is crypto fake media?
- bobsil1 7y ago
  Unidentified fakes
  - iamsb 7y ago
    That. And in specifically in India lot of people use false identities by impersonating a person from different socio-economic background. For example - there might be a protest by farmers, but most of the farmers in the protest are not actually farmers.
denzil_correa 7y ago
> Recently google sponsored data journalism award was given to one of the most partisan website. Fake news is not the same as partisan news. > One of the recent ones which I am investigating is called equality labs which recently did a dubious study claiming that there is absolutely no abuse of a majority group on Internet by a minority group. Link to the study?
- iamsb 7y ago
  Here is the study. There is PDF with the page which details the study methodology as well. https://www.equalitylabs.org/facebook-india-report https://www.equalitylabs.org/facebook-india-report https://www.equalitylabs.org/s/Facebook_India_Report_Equality_Labs.pdf https://www.equalitylabs.org/s/Facebook_India_Report_Equalit... Also to elaborate - if you are claiming to be doing data driven journalism, but are ignoring with malice all the data which does not fit your narrative, that seems more like fake news than just partisanship to me.

by iamsb 7y ago

gabcoh 7y ago

What is crypto fake media?

bobsil1 7y ago
Unidentified fakes
- iamsb 7y ago
  That. And in specifically in India lot of people use false identities by impersonating a person from different socio-economic background. For example - there might be a protest by farmers, but most of the farmers in the protest are not actually farmers.

denzil_correa 7y ago

> Recently google sponsored data journalism award was given to one of the most partisan website. Fake news is not the same as partisan news. > One of the recent ones which I am investigating is called equality labs which recently did a dubious study claiming that there is absolutely no abuse of a majority group on Internet by a minority group. Link to the study?

iamsb 7y ago
Here is the study. There is PDF with the page which details the study methodology as well. https://www.equalitylabs.org/facebook-india-report https://www.equalitylabs.org/facebook-india-report https://www.equalitylabs.org/s/Facebook_India_Report_Equality_Labs.pdf https://www.equalitylabs.org/s/Facebook_India_Report_Equalit... Also to elaborate - if you are claiming to be doing data driven journalism, but are ignoring with malice all the data which does not fit your narrative, that seems more like fake news than just partisanship to me.