I&B PSU floats tender to fact-check posts on social media: Report

Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL), a central public sector enterprise (CPSE) which operates under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, has floated a tender inviting agencies to provide “solution and services” related to “fact verification and disinformation detection” on social media platforms, according to a report by The Indian Express.

The tender aims at enrolling agencies that can fight fake news and misinformation on social media. BECIL has also directed that all bidders must be able to “identify key influencers behind disinformation” and their geo-location analysis of the disinformation and identify “pages and uploads of videos, images with potential to incite violence”. The tender also proposes the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for such “data classification and clustering”.