Fake News - Impact on society
Fake news refers to misinformation or disinformation that is spread through word of mouth and traditional media and more recently through digital forms of communication such as edited videos, memes, unverified advertisements and social media propagated rumours. Fake news spread through social media in the country has become a serious problem, with the potential of it resulting in mob violence, as was the case where at least 20 people were killed in 2018 as a result of misinformation circulated on social media. Most of the time Fake news conflates three different notions: misinformation, disinformation, and mal -information. Misinformations are false information, but when a person conveys it, believes that it is true and shares. Disinformation is those which are shared intentionally by a person after knowing that it is true. On the other hand, information based on reality but imposes harm on a person, organization, or country is termed as mal -informat...