This story is from November 20, 2020
How info-warriors in rural India are busting fake news
Always glued to his smartphone at a Covid care centre in Shopian town of south Kashmir, Adnan Tak drew the curiosity of other patients. "I told them that I was letting people in the district know about the facilities at the government-run centre and countering rumours on social media about a spike in the number of Covid cases," says Tak, who was himself down with the novel coronavirus disease then.
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RP
1529 days ago
'National media' or so called 'mainstream media' is another source of fake, unreliable, or motivated news.Read allPost comment
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