Checking Facts
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Why human beings fall for fake news
Detecting and correcting false information requires us to fight against the ways our brains like to process information.
Lisa Fazio, The Conversation
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A group of Kerala doctors is on a mission to debunk fake news about health on social media
They are succeeding too if the popularity of Info Clinic, their fact-checking Facebook page, is any indication.
TA Ameerudheen
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Election Commission debunks claims of three lakh bogus voters in Varanasi
The Uttar Pradesh state election commission says it has found names that are repeated at least once across UP in the electoral roll, not proof of bogus voting.
Mridula Chari
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‘No educated person will vote for the BJP. What is the point of studying if we do not get jobs?’
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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Readers’ comments: Article on South Asia’s view of India is ‘horribly biased’
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‘No Muslim can win, now or in the future’: In Assam’s Barpeta, delimitation fears confirmed