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%T Politics of Fake News: How WhatsApp Became a Potent Propaganda Tool in India
%A Farooq, Gowhar
%J Media Watch
%N 1
%P 106-117
%V 9
%D 2018
%K Fake news; rumors; WhatsApp; India; social media
%@ 0976-0911
%X While the Internet and multimedia applications have made it easy to produce  and spread  media, they have also made it possible to distribute fake news to masses. With  over 200 million active users in India and growing, WhatsApp's reach and features make it a top choice to spread fake news. This not only influences public opinion in India but has also sometimes   created  panic and  incited to violence.
This paper looks into how political propaganda is peddled through the WhatsApp in the form of 'news' (fake news). It also explores what makes the  WhatsApp such a powerful application in  Indian context, how do people use it and how existing laws in India make it difficult to trace the  origin of the fake news.
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