Headlines
  • False or misleading informations are spread by organizations posing as legitimate media outlets in an attempt to twist public opinion in favor of a certain ideology.
  • On social media,watch out for fake messages,pictures,Videos and news.
  • Always Check Independent Fact Checking Sites if You Have Some Doubts About the Authenticity of Any Information or Picture or video.
  • Check Google Images for AuthThe Google Reverse Images search can helps you.
  • It Would Be Better to Ignore Social Media Messages that are forwarded from Unknown or Little-Known Sources.
  • If a fake message asks you to share something, you can quickly recognize it as fake messege.
  • It is a heinous crime and punishable offence to post obscene, morphed images of women on social media networks, sometimes even in pornographic websites, as retaliation.
  • Deepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI)-driven deep learning software to manipulate preexisting photographs, videos, or audio recordings of a person to create new, fake images, videos, and audio recordings.
  • AI technology has the ability to manipulate media and swap out a genuine person's voice and likeness for similar counter parts.
  • Deepfake creators use this fake substance to spread misinformation and other illegal activities.Deepfakes are frequently used on social networking sites to elicit heated responses or defame opponents.
  • One can identify AI created fake videos by identifying abnormal eye movement, Unnatural facial expressions, a lack of feeling, awkward-looking hand,body or posture,unnatural physical movement or form, unnatural coloring, Unreal-looking hair,teeth that don't appear natural, Blurring, inconsistent audio or noise, images that appear unnatural when slowed down, differences between hashtags blockchain-based digital fingerprints, reverse image searches.
  • Look for details,like stange background,orientation of teeth,handsclothing,asymmetrical facial features,use reverse image search tools.

More Details

In Africa, COVID-19 Crisis Puts Squeeze on Millions Who Rely on Remittances

When the coronavirus began hitting Western economies, it hurt the economies of African countries, too – not only because of a loss in trade and tourism, but also due to a loss in remittances.

Hundreds of thousands of African families depend on money sent home by relatives working in North America, Europe and elsewhere. The safety net for millions of people is now threatened, and some families fear for the worst.

Fatuma Salah is a Somali national living at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. The mother of six says she closely monitors any message that comes to her phone.

Each time I receive a message alert, I think it’s a money transfer to my account, but it’s not. I was expecting to receive money from my family, it’s the 10th day of the month. I haven’t received anything yet,” she said.

Salah depends financially on her mother and brother who live in the United States. But both have lost their jobs and are staying indoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2018, Africans received $82 billion in remittances from abroad, according to the Washington-based Brookings Institution.

Remittances amount to 5% of GDP in at least 13 African countries. For some, like tiny Lesotho, they amount to 23% of its annual income.

With stay-at-home orders throwing millions out of work in Western countries, millions of Africans are feeling the pinch.

Adhieu Achuil, a South Sudanese student studying in Kenya, says she is afraid she might end up homeless, just like her neighbors.

“If it continues for two to three months, I don’t know what is going to happen, not only to me, to the people I know who are staying in Nairobi, who are being supported by their relatives or husbands in the USA. At the moment, we have people who are staying at public schools since they cannot afford to pay rent,” Achuil said.

Abdirashid Duale, the head of Dahabshiil, one of Somalia’s biggest money transfer services, says his company has seen a reduction in the number of people sending money to Africa.

“We have seen less money going to Africa, but of course, the current crisis has impacted the community we serve. We are sorry a lot of people in the diaspora have got the virus, a lot of families are not helping the way they used to help. These remittances, poor people rely on it, whether they are in refugee camps, whether they are paying school fees or food,” he said.

Duale, whose company operates in at least 40 countries in Africa, calls on the financial institutions and governments to make sending and receiving money easy because it saves lives.

Abdirashid Duale, the head of Dahabshiil, one of Somalia’s biggest money transfer services, says his company has seen a reduction in the number of people sending money to Africa.

“We have seen less money going to Africa, but of course, the current crisis has impacted the community we serve. We are sorry a lot of people in the diaspora have got the virus, a lot of families are not helping the way they used to help. These remittances, poor people rely on it, whether they are in refugee camps, whether they are paying school fees or food,” he said.

Duale, whose company operates in at least 40 countries in Africa, calls on the financial institutions and governments to make sending and receiving money easy because it saves lives.

Duale, whose company operates in at least 40 countries in Africa, calls on the financial institutions and governments to make sending and receiving money easy because it saves lives.

“We would like the international governments, European governments, UK financial institutions to help so that [the] community [which] has access to banking, the company, like Dahabshil, has full access to the commercial banks so that remittances that are going to Africa will not be stopped, will continue to reach people safely,” Duale said.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said last month Africa needs $100 billion to combat the virus and support its vulnerable citizens and economies~VOA

RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: A valid URL was not provided.

Subscribe Our You Tube Channel

Fighting Fake News

Fighting Lies











Related Article

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina on…

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina who has spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia, will be coming home b ...
November 21, 2024

Myanmar Junta Airstrike Kills Vhildren Playing…

Myanmar’s air force bombed a church where displaced people were sheltering near the border with Ch ...
November 18, 2024

Bangkok Court Clears Thai Woman of…

A Bangkok court on Thursday acquitted a Thai woman accused of supporting two Chinese ethnic Uyghur m ...
November 8, 2024

Residents of Kamala Harris’s Ancestral Indian…

At the Hindu temple in Thulasendrapuram, the ancestral village of Kamala Harris, in Tamil Nadu, Indi ...
November 7, 2024

TikTok Deletes Videos Related to Uyghur…

Authorities in Xinjiang have banned Uyghurs from using social media apps, including Chinese-owned ...
November 6, 2024

In Post-Hasina Bangladesh,Awami League Faces Uncertain…

With its leaders in jail or fleeing from justice, the party that led Bangladesh to independence and ...
October 29, 2024

Other Article

News & Views

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina on…

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina who has spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia, will be coming home b ...
November 21, 2024
Video Report

Trapped in Lebanon, African Migrants Face…

Many of the estimated 176,000 migrants living in Lebanon are African women who are working menial jo ...
Pick of the Day

Permanent Representative of France Briefs Press…

Nicolas de Rivière,Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, briefs reporters after ...
November 20, 2024
Video Report

The Impact on a Ukrainian Family…

This week marks 1,000 days of fighting in Ukraine.For millions of Ukrainians, including 32-year-old ...
Pick of the Day

UN Security Council Meets to Discuss…

James Kariuki,Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and Presid ...
November 19, 2024
Video Report

Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Flee Bombs

Over half a million people, many of them were refugees who initially fled the Syrian conflict, have ...

[wp-rss-aggregator feeds="crime-more-world"]
Top