SAN FRANCISCO: Instagram on Monday went global in its fight against misinformation, making alliances with fact-checkers around the world to expose deception in shared photos or videos.The Facebook-owned social platform launched a fact-checking program in the US early this year.“Today’s expansion is an important step in our ongoing efforts to fight misinformation on Instagram,” the service said in an online post.“Photo and video based misinformation is increasingly a challenge across our industry, and something our teams have been focused on addressing.”Instagram began working with third-party allies in the US to help identify, review and label bogus posts. Content deemed to be false is ignored by Instagram’s search or recommendation tools and is shown with a warning label if users come across it.“When content has been rated as false or partly false by a third-party fact-checker, we reduce its distribution,” Instagram said.“”In addition, it will be labeled so people can better decide fo...
PATNA, India: At least 100 people have died in northern India over the last three days in unusually heavy late monsoon rains which have submerged streets, hospital wards and houses, officials said on Monday.Dozens of boats were pressed into service on streets overflowing with gushing rain water in Patna, the capital of the eastern state of Bihar, after torrential downpours far stronger the normal.At least 27 people have lost their lives across the state and another 63 in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh since Friday, authorities said. With more rain predicted, weather experts say September could end as the wettest in more than a hundred years."Patna alone has recorded some 226 millimetres of rainfall since Friday," Bihar disaster response official M. Ramachandru told AFP. Photos showed patients lying on hospital beds in dirty rain water at the state-run Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in Patna.It has also been raining heavily in southern India and in the western state of Gujar...
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