Most of us constantly get different convincing audio and video clips in our whatsapp inbox: Why are they so convincing? It’s quite often a harsh grating voice of a politician and with cleverly worked out fictitious facts and figures, convincingly padded and parceled into believable packages, the audio goes viral!…
You and Fake News..!
With all of us staying at home, with no idea what is happening outside, all sorts of news fills our WhatsApp and email inboxes! Most are convincing as with cleverly worked out facts and figures, nicely padded and parceled into believable packages, we accept it! And… …we forward it! What…
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.