In this era of fake news and paid news artificial intelligence is more and more used as a political tool to manipulate and dictate common people. Through big data, biometric data AI analyses online profiles and behaviors in social media and smart phones. But the days are not far when AI will also control the politicians and the media too presentation from Dr. DatchanaMoorthy Ramu

1. FAKE
NEWS
D R R . D ATC H A N A M O O R T H Y
S O U T H A S I A I T H E A D

2. FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
(ARTICLE 11 CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL
RIGHTS; ARTICLE 10 CONVENTION FOR
THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND
FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS)

3. WHAT IS A FAKE NEWS
•"Fake news is made-up stuff, masterfully
manipulated to look like credible journalistic
reports that are easily spread online to large
audiences willing to believe the fictions and
spread the word.“

4. vs.

6. WHO’S TO BLAME
Ref: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/heres-how-you-can-spot-fake-
news-online

7. WHY FAKE NEWS IS SO EFFECTIVE IN
TAIWAN
• It has one of the highest internet penetration rates in the world, and a whopping 80%
of Taiwanese people have Facebook accounts.

8. MEDIA DETAILS OF TAIWAN
• Number of Daily Newspapers:170
• Total Newspaper Ad Receipts:19,936 (New Taiwan $
• Number of Television Stations:29
• Number of Radio Stations:60
• Number of Individuals with Computers: 4,964,000(Aprox)
Read more: http://www.pressreference.com/Sw-Ur/Taiwan.html#ixzz5jT0O0JCY

9. LAWS IN TAIWAN
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201903140008.aspx

12. READERS
10% of Readers of
Top News come via
Social Media
40% of Readers of
Fake News come
via Social Media

13. 10% Facebook
Views only what
they Subscribe.

16. WhatsApp
Facebook
Snapchat
Gmail
Telegram
Viber
Line
Can be Done!
How we can Make it !

17. https://medium.com/american-citizens-for-taiwan/fake-news-real-effects-c526cf19e88c

18. STANFORD UNIVERSITY STUDY
22 NOVEMBER 2016
• Studied middle, high school, and college students in 12 states with
7,804 students.
• Study indicated that students have trouble judging the credibility of
online news, Facebook and Twitter feeds, photographs, videos, blog
posts and other digital messages
• Struggled to distinguish ads from articles, neutral sources from biased
ones, and fake accounts from real ones.
• Lack of verification skills
• Digital news literacy curriculum to address critical thinking skills needed

19. FIND OUT ABOUT THE SOURCE.
• Look at the website where the story comes from to see if the
story is well-presented, if the images are clear, and if the text
is written well and without any spelling errors or exaggerated
language. If you’re not sure, try clicking on the “about us”
section, and check that there’s a clear outline explaining the
work of the organisation and its history.

20. LOOK AT THE AUTHOR.
• To check if they are real, reliable and “trustworthy”, look for
other pieces they have written and what outlets they have
written for. If they haven’t written anything else, or if they
write for websites that look unreliable, think twice about
believing what they say.

21. REFERENCES
• Check that the article contains references and links to other
news stories, articles and authors. Click on the links and check
if they seem reliable and trustworthy.

22. DO A GOOGLE REVERSE IMAGE
SEARCH
• This is an excellent tool, which allows you to search Google by
images, rather than words. It’s simple; all you have to do is
upload a picture onto the Google Reverse Image Search
site and you will see all the other web pages that have similar
images. This then tells you the other sites where the images
have been used – and if they’ve been used out of context.

23. GO WITH MAINSTREAM
• See if the story you are reading about is being shared on any
other mainstream news outlets, such as BBC News or Sky
News. If it is, then you can feel more sure that the story is not
fake, because these organisations take special care to check
their sources and very rarely publish a story without having a
second source to back it up.

25. THANK YOU