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Fake News (Way outs (Independent, trusted and effective press regulation.,…
Fake News
Way outs
Independent, trusted and effective press regulation.
Mainstream media must use social media tools intensively in order to defend the truth, present the correct information and balance opinions.
Curb media ownership. We need an open debate on the impact of media concentration on our democracy and wider culture. There should be clear limits on media ownership so that powerful proprietors with vested interests are not allowed to dominate the news agenda.
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What?
a type of yellow journalism that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via the traditional print, broadcasting news media, or via Internet-based social media.
Sensationalisation, exaggeration, provocative, misleading
Dangers
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Fake news has also been used to dupe gullible people financially. The reach of news has given chit fund schemes an altogether new arena as well as has introduced the concept of online fraud through spam mails.
It hampers spirit of common brotherhood and raises intolerance. Eg. 2012 mass exodus of North-Eastern people from Bangalore on false online threats.
Over the time it shapes the thinking of society at large. Portrayal of India as an unsafe destination for women by international media has created a false image of a nation.
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Examples
Lack of awareness about the spread of HIV led to locals draining the whole pond in a village after the body of a HIV infected human was found in the pond.
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