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Fake News Forward Hate Messages India Lynchings Social Media WhatsApp What’s the way forward?

There is no fail-safe technological firewall against hate-mongering through WhatsApp. The change has to come from a society that acts on rumours

July 20, 2018Leave a commentBlogsBy Udita Chaturvedi
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