The Rising Tide of Fake News and How to Tackle It: Quickfix Solutions Will only Create More Problems

dc.contributor.authorChouhan, Gajendra Singh
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-19T10:40:07Z
dc.date.available2023-04-19T10:40:07Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-03
dc.description.abstractFake news affects everyone and everything. It comes to us in myriad shades: viral rumors, morphed images, conspiracy theories, and unconfirmed tweets and posts. There is no easy way out to curb its reach. We may blame young people who are not media literate, or social media that is largely untapped by any regulation or responsibility. The author offers three takeaways to overcome present misinformation landscape: people, praxis and policy. Taken together these three areas, the society would much balanced, clean and informeden_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3737718
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.bits-pilani.ac.in:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/10415
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe Times of Indiaen_US
dc.subjectHumanitiesen_US
dc.subjectFake Newsen_US
dc.subjectMisinformationen_US
dc.subjectMedia Literacyen_US
dc.subjectDeep Fakesen_US
dc.subjectPolicyen_US
dc.subjectPraxixen_US
dc.subjectSocial Mediaen_US
dc.titleThe Rising Tide of Fake News and How to Tackle It: Quickfix Solutions Will only Create More Problemsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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