Manorama Online joins Project Shakti to combat fake news in Elections 2024

Delhi: Manorama Online, the digital version of Malayala Manorama has joined Shakti: India Election Fact-Checking collective driven by DataLEADS and supported by Google News Initiative to combat fake news in General Elections 2024. 

The Shakti collective helps to identify misleading information, including deep fakes on social media, with the aim to curb the spread of false news during the election period.

Shakti, India Election Fact-Checking Collective, serves as a consortium of news outlets and fact-checking organisations pan-India, collaborating to enable them to detect online misinformation early, including deep fakes, especially on social media platforms. Various media in regional languages across the country are part of this initiative, which aims for digitally transparent elections.

Santhosh George Jacob, Coordinating Editor of Manorama Online, said, "As a popular source of news and information, particularly for the Malayali community both within India and abroad, we at Manorama Online are happy to join the Shakti Collective to make our elections free from fake news.”