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Write Hotel Reviews & Earn Money

November 03, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

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Hello,

Imagine you are offered the chance to work from home wherein you can earn money by just rating and reviewing hotels. Easy money, right?

As enticing as it may sound, it was the modus operandi of a financial fraud. Read on!

🔖 A lot of you may think that debunking or verifying deepfakes needs a completely different set of online tools, techniques and approach as compared to the content that is not deepfake.

Well, not always! Here’s one such recent instance.

This video shows Jordanian Queen Rania Al Abdullah where she appears to be condemning Hamas and extending support to Israel. You can watch the video here.

However, this video is a deepfake created by an Israeli Instagram user.

Tools & Techniques Used to Verify:

Google keyword search led us to a news report + Came across a CNN bulletin using keyword search on YouTube + Observed the video carefully to notice a text that led us a verified X account + finally found the user who created the deepfake

If you see, there is nothing extraordinary we did that we wouldn’t have done in the case of any content that is not a deepfake.

Read the complete fact-check by Nivedita Niranjankumar here.

📢Event Announcement: Fighting CyberCrime

Cybercrime is rampant through social media. No one is safe. In this unregulated maze, how do cops fight cyber crimes? What should citizens know to be safe?

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Do you know what really happened in the news this week? Find out by taking the BOOM quiz:

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Write Reviews, Earn Money: How Cyberpolice Cracked The Fraud

🔖 In May of this year, Mukesh Kumar (name changed) was approached through Telegram with the promise of easy money by simply rating and reviewing hotels on a website that looked similar to AirBnb, the San Francisco-based company for homestays.

The catch: These reviews had to be glowing, five-star endorsements. Mukesh took the bait, only to find himself ensnared in a vicious web of deception. Within just four days, he had lost a staggering Rs 8.70 lakhs. Read more about the scam and how the cyber police cracked it in Umesh Kumar Ray’s report.

The Fad Of Mindful Eating Is Causing Body Dysmorphia

🔖 Meanwhile, Decode’s Titha Ghosh spoke to individuals about online weight loss tips they have been influenced by and then had these tips verified by nutritionists. We also spoke to experts about body dysmorphia and the potential risk of social media for someone struggling.

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🚫 Fake News You Almost Fell For

🔍A snippet of an old interview of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the late nineties where he appears to be saying Hindutva is a playing card that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) uses during elections, went viral on social media. Did he really say this? 🔗 Hazel Gandhi↗️ fact-checked the claim.

🔍 Did Congress leader Rahul Gandhi say that the Chhattisgarh chief minister works for billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani? Find out in 🔗 Srijit Das’↗️ fact-check.

🔍 Social media users shared a video of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan apparently voicing uncertainty about the BJP winning the upcoming state election against Congress's Kamal Nath. But, did he? 🔗 Anmol Alphonso↗️ debunked the claim.

🅱️ Recommends

📖 This week's recommendation is: Readers’ perception of computer-generated news: Credibility, expertise, and readability by Andreas Graefe and Mario Haim

The stimulus material in this experiment is limited to journalistic accounts of finance & sports-based coverage. This study deals with declared and actual sources of texts to distinguish between participants’ perception of the reading materials. AI-generated and human journalistic writings were judged on the basis of three parameters: expertise, credibility and readability.

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