Fake news will kill social fiber of India unless checked

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An engineer working at Google comes to India, he offers chocolates to school kids, the bystanders assume that he is a child kidnapper and forward it on Whatsapp, and the 32 year old techie is lynched by a mob of 200 people, he is tied and dragged and beaten to death with sticks and bricks and that’s where I see that fake news will kill social fiber of India unless checked.

Ladies and Gentlemen, 
The social media was not responsible for killing of Mohammed Aza Ahmed, it acted only as a medium, it was the psychological state of mind of those individuals who gathered and lynched him, the whole thing generates a question that why some people create these kind of news and why today’s generation is so gullible that it easily believes on such fake news.

In order to attract more revenue, most of the “content creators” of these fake news use click baits just for the purpose of earning more money. To achieve that purpose, they write the worst possible content which could  boost web traffic and generate more click baits. They want more views than news. The second point is that some people have their agenda for a particular viewpoint or ideology so they do this to incite people based upon their emotional sentiment for some vested interest.

Now, let’s talk about 21st century where people are driven by instant gratification impulses, having smartphones in their hands all the time. Today if someone receives news on any social media platform, they do nothing with it, they just share it within their network in order to verify it, they even don’t try to search about the news on google because they don’t have the time. There is no fact and check about the news, and if the information is forwarded to them by their neighbors or trusted ones, they just blindly trust on that.

Second reason of people’s accepting fake news as true, despite having evidence to the contrary, it is the nature confirmation bias, or the tendency for people to seek and accept information that confirms their existing beliefs while rejecting or ignoring that which contradicts those beliefs.

 At last I would like to say that people need to be aware of the kind of news they are getting, they should google it and then believe accordingly. We should remember that we have the capacity to kill any fake news generated on social media or contemporary media. By learning self-regulation, we also need to control ourselves from participating in any news which is fake.

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