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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Mob Lynchings: What kind of WhatsApp users and groups spread fake news?

Mob Lynchings: What kind of WhatsApp users and groups spread fake news?

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published Published on Oct 18, 2019   modified Modified on Oct 18, 2019
-TheWire.in

A new study from LSE, funded by a grant from WhatsApp, shines a spotlight on Hindu males and disinformation against minority groups.

New Delhi:
New research suggests that the spread of fake news in India that sparks mob lynchings is largely done out of “reasons of prejudice and ideology”, rather than “ignorance or digital literacy”.

“It can be seen…that assuming most misinformation spreads through rural and/or illiterate users and targeting functional digital and information literacy interventions primarily at these groups would be both inaccurate and ineffective,” a new qualitative study put out by researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE) notes.

This goes against, in part, conventional wisdom that all WhatsApp needs to do is conduct a series of workshops across the country as a method of imparting digital literacy and teaching users how to spot fake news.

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TheWire.in, 17 October, 2019, https://thewire.in/communalism/mob-lynchings-whatsapp-fake-news


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