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WhatsApp bans over 8.5 million accounts in Sept, 33 reinstated: Report

WhatsApp received 8,161 complaints in September, which included 3,744 ban appeals

McAfee unveils project Mockingbird at CES 2024 to detect Deepfake audio

The first public demos of Project Mockingbird, McAfee's Deepfake Audio Detection technology, will be available onsite at the Consumer Electronics Show 2024

Zerodha founder shares his 58-second deepfake video, raising concern

The founder of Zerodha raised serious concerns over the growing threat of generative AI and deepfake videos. He shared a 58-second deepfake video raising his concern

Fake AI image of Pentagon explosion puts paid Twitter Blue in question

Several media outlets and millions of Twitter users took the fake verified Twitter account 'Bloomberg Feed' for a real Bloomberg-affiliated account, as it had a blue check

MPL bans over a million accounts in 2022 to promote fair gameplay

According to the company, these are not temporary suspensions but permanent bans of these users from the system

Twitter should put efforts in tackling bots, not in serving subpoenas: Musk

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said that Twitter should put more effort into tackling bots and spams on its platform and not in serving subpoenas to his friends

8 in 10 Twitter accounts fake, claims top security expert as Musk laughs

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk went after Parag Agrawal-led platform once again, after a top cybersecurity expert claimed that as high as eight in 10 Twitter accounts are fake

US securities regulators question Twitter on how it counts fake accounts

U.S. securities regulators are questioning Twitter about how it counts fake accounts on its platform. The Securities and Exchange Commission in June asked the company about its methodology for calculating the false or spam accounts and "the underlying judgments and assumptions used by management. The agency's Division of Corporation Finance made the request in a June 15 letter, shortly before Tesla CEO Elon Musk raised the issue as grounds to back out of a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Such questions can be routine, and it wasn't clear whether the SEC has opened a formal investigation into Twitter's fake accounts. The SEC wouldn't comment Wednesday; Twitter didn't immediately reply to a request for comment. The law firm Wilson Sonsini of Palo Alto, California, replied in a June 22 letter saying the company believes it adequately disclosed the methodology in its annual report filed for 2021. The letter says that Twitter makes its estimates of false accounts with an internal

'Twitter has spoken': Musk on poll over company's claim on fake users

A poll by Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that nearly 65 per cent of his followers do not believe in Twitter's claim that less than 5 per cent of daily users are fake/spam on the platform

'Adversaries' using 150 fake social media profiles to extract info: Army

An official said people using fake social media profiles have been trying to engage with Army personnel by pretending to be fellow Army officers, police personnel or even posing as women

Here's why people fall for fake profiles online, and how you can spot one

According to an estimate, 3 to 4 percent of accounts in Facebook, or approximately 66 million to 88 million profiles, are fake but haven't yet been detected