In the last two days, a video began to be circulated on all social media platforms showing a massive traffic jam with multiple lanes. Some users and news media outlets claim this to be a video of tourists returning from Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh and others claimed it to be a video from Khandala, Maharashtra. Verified […]
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While Twitter is increasingly becoming a polarized space, reflective of the current political landscape of India. There are a growing number of accounts that are emerging with a right wing narrative and a particular fondness for hate speech against minorities. The growing number of accounts has led to the creation of hate through fake news […]
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Remember Keanu Reeves-starrer ‘The Matrix’, which showed a world that was placed before your eyes to blind you from the truth. After watching The Social Dilemma, the same world comes back to haunt.Social media was started with the purpose that people stay connected, and friendships last longer, but as enough of anything is bad, the […]
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You would think—from the outcry and hullabaloo—that fake news, on the contrary ‘alternative facts’ and misinformation are on the rise. It is making it easier to spread fake news. Whilst terms like ‘fake news, ‘alternative facts, and the like have been discussed, as our social epistemologists, the main concern is sure with what these things […]
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One of the famous US news website reported this months that in December 2020, Russian state had apparently launched a cyberespionage attack on the U.S. software firm Solar Winds, giving hackers access to a mine of data on U.S. government and private company IP and personnel.In March 2021, it also came to knowledge that Chinese […]
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