Google’s Jigsaw launches an anti-misinformation project in India. It will be countering the false claims before they become widely circulated on social media
Jigsaw launches an anti-misinformation project in India, that aims to prevent of spreading misleading information which results in violence. Jigsaw is a subsidiary of Google.
The initiative will use “prebunking” videos designed to counter false claims before they become widely circulated on youtube and other social media platforms.
According to the reports Google recently did an experiment in Europe where it sought to counter anti-refugee narratives online amid Russia and Ukraine war.
The experiment in India will be bigger in scope as it will deal with multiple local languages — Bengali, Hindi and Marathi — and cover diverse sections of a country populated by over a billion people.
