09-04-2019 14:06 via kvoa.com

In India’s election, voters feed on false information

NEW DELHI (AP) — New Delhi shop owner Ram Shankar Rai spends at least two hours a day going through political news and videos shared with him on social media.
Rai looked intently at a flurry of videos and photos on WhatsApp about an Indian airstrike in Pakistan, including pictures labeled as militants’ corpses.
There was just one problem: The photos were not of militants but of casualties of a 2005 Himalayan earthquake that killed thousands of people in Pakistan.
Tackling misinformat
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