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* “Does newborn calves be slaughtered to produce covaxin vaccines?” * “Please fill in the fuel of your car.
Starting tomorrow, the pump has been ordered by the police to give fuel only for cars that have red, green or yellow stickers.” * “4,000 MBBS students and 3,000 resident doctors have announced strikes against the government Maharashtra for various problems.
“Media, which connects and catalyzes changes, can also be a field of false news and falsehoods.
The messages listed above are just examples of stable and constant information flows through platforms and networks that connect family, friends and colleagues.
The anxiety and panic archive was palpable.
As a change in the media pit dynamics on the forms of emerging communication, TOI has tried to meet the challenges by providing greater emphasis on news verification.
We don’t claim to have all the answers, but we have a strict system to check information before we publish it.
If the error still slips, we admit it and quickly to set a direct record.
In accordance with the same spirit, verified times seek to provide clarity and accuracy of vital problems through collaborative efforts with readers.
We see this as the service we want to give to our readers with humble and responsibility.
We will not state that something is true or fake unless we are fully satisfied with our thorough test.
And if we are not in a position to reach definitive conclusions, we will not avoid saying it.
Since it was launched in Mumbai and Pune, we have researched nearly 17,000 messages, sent by our readers on a special route.
They range from ahead of the death of a decorated war veteran, to cellphone numbers for drug sources for Covid patients, and the announcement is said to be on the other upcoming locking.
Our panel, which consists of editors and journalists who cover various agents and sectors, send data, reports, statements, and other details that enter to strengthen experts and related authorities.
Their input helps us return to the reader with the use of possible images.
Some messages were truly absurd – “All citizens are titled up to ₹ 7,000 per week to stay at home to fight viruses” – but there are some who seem to carry the authenticity ring, provide information about vaccination slots or quotes of statements that are associated with people People in an important position (“Mike Yeadon, a former head of scientist at Pfizer, said the vaccine was a threat to human life”).
This is clearly a more dangerous side of social media; Half the truth looked real.
The challenge is to analyze Fake Viral and separate the facts from fabrication.
This is important because fake news can be truly deadly.
“The rapid spread of false information during a pandemic can cost their lives,” said the US-based doctor Dr.
Seema Yasmin, who recently talked about how the wrong information spread faster than microbes during the crisis.
“Last year we have seen people write Facebook posts from their hospital beds saying they don’t believe the pandemic is real because of what they read on social media and now they are infected,” Yasmin said, emphasizing it to identify the red flag in The information packed for “very confident”.
With the truth to be the best, most effective vaccination to fight fake news epidemics, we urge you to continue all the messages that doubt and cause anxiety to our expert panel.
Let green ticks in the verified logo count the tyranny of the arrow forward that curved gray.