Social Media or Social Epidemic? Fake News Leads to 22 Murders in India in One Year
As a result of Jio’s entry in India, the internet has reached a much wider demographic than earlier. With this, many Indians have come to use apps like Facebook, and WhatsApp for the first time and even enjoy it. But on the darker side, this easy access to the internet has alsoresulted in the propagation of hoaxesand misleading information. Lately, WhatsApp in India is plagued with the blatant messaging forward out of which almost half of the news is fake....