Anthropic, the company behind the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Claude, said on September 10 that it had disrupted an operation that used AI to produce fabricated Bengali news stories promoting the Awami League and attacking its political opponents.

Ministry of Public Administration urges public not to be misled by a viral letter claiming reduced office days to save energy

Disinformation reached a fever pitch during Bangladesh’s 13th parliamentary polls as spin doctors launched a relentless campaign on Facebook and Telegram, beginning on the eve of the election and surging through the voting period yesterday.

As Bangladesh votes in the 13th parliamentary election, the night leading up to the polls saw spin doctors go into a frenetic overdrive on social media

Ongoing trend offers grim glimpse of the future of political disinformation

Unofficial pro‑BNP and pro-Jamaat actors flood social media with disinformation and manipulative narratives, often using religion; pro‑AL pages target the interim government and NCP’s female politicians.

Geopolitical weaponisation is now routine. Countries like Russia are actively intervening in democratic systems of rivals.

Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday urged the United Nations to establish an effective mechanism to combat disinformation and to support the media in upholding ethical standards.

Dismislab’s investigation revealed that many of these pages, often recently created, share identical posts

Dismislab investigation finds

Why is the Indian media's coverage of Bangladesh markedly different from that of Bangladeshi news outlets?

A significant weakness of Bangladeshi media is their reliance on secondary sources without direct verification or cross-checking.

Police in the southern Indian city of Bangalore has booked a case against a Bangladeshi journalist and a woman staffer of an Indian news portal for allegedly spreading fake news about the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi

Fake news existed even before the internet, but with the World Wide Web and social media, the problem has been elevated to a whole different level. Add to that the protests and volatility Bangladesh — and many other places in the world – have been witnessing, what you have is a breeding ground for fake news.

To stay on top of currently trending fake news regarding the recent flooding in Bangladesh, here is a compilation of some Facebook posts that have been proven to be false by Rumor Scanner, a Bangladeshi fact-checking organisation.

While it is undeniable that the aftermath of the ouster of the Awami League government was marked by violence against the Hindus, fake news is also being spread with abandon in social media in India.

The local ethical hacking group Cyber 71 has strongly refuted claims made by State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak, who accused them of spreading false information amidst a national crisis. 

Behind every photo, every video, and every post lies a curated process which is always aimed at portraying an “ideal” version of oneself to the world.

Left unchecked, gendered disinformation poses a serious threat to women’s equal political participation.

Uncover the sources and intentions behind these circulating rumors.