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#CheckTheFake -10: #Infodemic can make you sick even while maintaining social distance

Apr 10, 2020
3 min

#CheckTheFake -10: #Infodemic can make you sick even while maintaining social distance

April 10, 2020 Everybody wishes for an antidote to this pandemic, not to the rising #Infodemic. Despite the keys to stop the infodemics already available at our hands, people are keen to the key of success to contain the spread of #COVID19. It is simply because of the global increase in number of total #COVID19 cases and death toll that has risen to 1,536,094 and 89,877 respectively till now with European region being the victims of the most cases and death rate followed by r

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#CheckTheFake -9: More subscribers and viewers than #COVID19 patients in hospitals

Ankuran Dutta

Apr 9, 2020
3 min

#CheckTheFake -9: More subscribers and viewers than #COVID19 patients in hospitals

April 9, 2020 Infodemics is making it tough for the people struggling for relief from #COVID19 pandemic. All across the globe, doctors and other frontline warriors are making both day and night the same for freeing the world from novel coronavirus, but overload of misinformation and fake messages have raised the waves of infodemics to a more greater heights. At the time, when #COVID19 cases have increased to nearly 15 lakhs affecting 209 countries and territories around the w

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#CheckTheFake -8: Not Lions, but #Covidiots are roaming on the streets of social media

Ankuran Dutta

Apr 8, 2020
2 min

#CheckTheFake -8: Not Lions, but #Covidiots are roaming on the streets of social media

April 8, 2020 Lions aren't on the streets of Russia; they are roaming on the social media world wide, claims #CheckTheFake on #COVID19. These lions aren't freed by the Russian President Vladimir Putin; but are drawn in the minds of #Covidiots on different social media applications, like WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook etc. A #Facebook page "Humour TV" posted a picture of a lion on an empty street with the caption, "Vladmir Putin has dropped 800 Tigers and lions all over the count

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#CheckTheFake -7: Who attributes WHO on fake lockdown phases? It’s me, #Infodemics !

Ankuran Dutta

Apr 7, 2020
3 min

#CheckTheFake -7: Who attributes WHO on fake lockdown phases? It’s me, #Infodemics !

April 7, 2020 If you plan for panic buying before the assumed phase-III of lockdown attributed to WHO starts, be sure that you fall prey of infodemics! A viral message attributing to #WHO on the procedures and protocols of #lockdown into four phases during #COVID19 has created a chaos among the public. The message says that the WHO has divided the lockdown period into four stages and the Indian government is also following the same. The Press Information Bureau of India (PIB)

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#CheckTheFake -6: WHO info on #COVID19 buried under ‘Fake letters’

Ankuran Dutta

Apr 6, 2020
3 min

#CheckTheFake -6: WHO info on #COVID19 buried under ‘Fake letters’

April 6, 2020: Infodemics appears in the form of ‘fake letters’ this time purporting to share different country’s and personalities’ views on #COVID19. As a result, WHO’s official reports and information on #COVID19 is increasingly losing its trace under these ‘fake letters’, which are widely shared through internet during this pandemic. A number of ‘fake letters’ from Wuhan city in China, countries like France and Italy, from the Presidents of different countries and persona

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#CheckTheFake-5: COVID-19 travels faster than ‘Light’

Ankuran Dutta

Apr 5, 2020
3 min

#CheckTheFake-5: COVID-19 travels faster than ‘Light’

Guwahati, April 5: With the rise in rate of new #COVID19 cases across the world, it’s time to believe that even ‘light’ cannot travel faster than this pandemic. But people in India unaware of the speed of this pandemic truly believes that after ‘clapping sound’, ‘Light’ can boost them morally to combat #COVID19 on Sunday night as PM Modi urges people to light diyas for 9 minutes at 9 pm. More than one million cases of #COVID19 have been confirmed, as 66,874 new cases were dia

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#CheckTheFake-4 : It’s not a cup of tea, but a WhatsApp ‘forward’ that our morning starts with today

Ankuran Dutta

Apr 4, 2020
2 min

#CheckTheFake-4 : It’s not a cup of tea, but a WhatsApp ‘forward’ that our morning starts with today

April 4, 2020 And this ‘forward’ further multiplies as people are locked up in their homes these days due to the outbreak of #COVID19. A number of WhatsApp forwards started to make its round immediately after the Prime Minister in his address to the people on Friday morning urged them to light lamps and diyas to end the darkness of #COVID19 while appreciating the nation’s efforts during the 21-day lockdown. The ‘forwards’ tries to flatter PM Modi’s appeal and contextualize it

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#CheckTheFake-3: nCoronavirus is secular

Ankuran Dutta

Apr 3, 2020
2 min

#CheckTheFake-3: nCoronavirus is secular

April 3, 2020: When the entire world is gripped into COVID-19 pandemic, the social media users in India waste no time to give it a communal colour. It started with the Nizammuddin Tablighi Jamaat event in New Delhi that has recently emerged into an epicenter of coronavirus outbreak. The event attended by around 3,400 people in early March is now linked to the sudden rise in COVID-19 positive cases by over 400 in the past 24 hours. According to the latest information on the Mi

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#CheckTheFake -2: Infodemic vs. Pandemic

Ankuran Dutta

Apr 3, 2020
2 min

#CheckTheFake -2: Infodemic vs. Pandemic

Guwahati, April 2: The rise of #Infodemic on #COVID19 over the social media platforms at the time of relentless threat to our health by this pandemic takes the whole world by surprise. Keeping in view with the concerns expressed by WHO on Feb 15, 2020 about the rising infodemics, the Government of India recently issued directives to the social media companies in the country to stop the #misinformation spread on #COVID19. Now, it’s the responsibility of these social media comp

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#CheckTheFake -1: Celebrating 365 days of non-stop #fakenews

Ankuran Dutta

Apr 3, 2020
2 min

#CheckTheFake -1: Celebrating 365 days of non-stop #fakenews

April 1, 2020: April Fool's Day is an annual custom celebrated on first April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes for several centuries by different cultures. The custom of setting aside a day for playing harmless pranks upon one's neighbour has been relatively common in the world historically. April Fools’ Day traditions include playing hoaxes or practical jokes on others, often yelling “April Fools!” at the end to clue in the subject of the April Fools’ Day prank. In I

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