FAKE NEWS EVALUATION AWARENESS LEVEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN GUWAHATI: A SURVEY

AUTHOR – SUBHAM DAS¹ & RAKESH PRAKASH², STUDENT¹ & ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR², AMITY SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION, AMITY UNIVERSITY, NOIDA, UTTARPRADESH

BEST CITATION – SUBHAM DAS & RAKESH PRAKASH, FAKE NEWS EVALUATION AWARENESS LEVEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN GUWAHATI: A SURVEY, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 4 (1) OF 2024, PG. 1250-1266, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.

ABSTRACT

In the recent years, “Fake news” has come to the front on the web, and all the more explicitly, via virtual entertainment networks it could be referenced that the spreading of phony news on interpersonal organizations, particularly in the midst of calamity, or on issues including public safety welcomes undesirable consequences for the existences of people and social orders. With the accessibility of modest advanced mobile phones and reasonable Web plans, WhatsApp has turned into the most famous online entertainment stage in India with north of 200 million month to month dynamic clients, which has likewise made it the most well-known apparatus to scatter disdain discourse and phony news. There have been a few instances of horde assaults set off by gossipy tidbits about kid lifting via online entertainment stages While WhatsApp has proactively gone to a few innovative lengths to control the issue of falsehood, (for example, the ‘sent tag and limit sending to five talks without a moment’s delay), it is likewise anxious to handle the issue socially by making networks strong against deception. This incorporates brief moves made during the result of a miserable episode of horde savagery in Karbi Anglong, during the arrival of NRC, where they countered counterfeit news and bits of hearsay continuously to guarantee a serene NRC discharge or during the fallout of lamentable homicides by thought ULFA-I individuals in Tinsukia.