Discussing India’s fake news epidemic and how it threatens to destroy the credibility of news.
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ContributeIn this session at The Media Rumble 2019, Samir Saran, President of Observer Research Foundation (ORF), is in conversation with Shivnath Thukral, Public Policy Director, India & South Asia at Facebook, Berges Y Malu, Head of Public Policy and Policy Communications at ShareChat, Surabhi Malik, Program Director with Internews and Google News Initiative India Training Network, and Nalin Mehta, Executive Editor of TOI-Online. They discuss the epidemic of “fake news” and how it threatens to destroy the credibility of news.
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