Fake News, Propaganda & Infodemics

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The pandemic can be controlled by vaccines. But how can we stop a dangerous infodemic that gets more & more virulent by the day?

The second wave of Coronavirus is a biological war waged against India. Orchestrated by the world’s pharmaceutical lobby, arms lobby, oil lobby, it was created under the guise of Black Lives Matter by China and Pakistan. Why? COVID 2.0 is a ploy to destroy Narendra Modi’s image because he is the one impediment who, unlike Donald Trump, is not bending to the whims of Pakistan and China. This biological war on India, aided by maoists and jihadis, is aimed at destabilising the Modi government and destroying India’s vaccine production capabilities.

The paragraph mentioned above is not some kind of a sick joke. It’s the summary of message doing the rounds in many WhatsApp groups. People with limited ability to discern fact from fiction, perhaps sympathetic to the Modi government, are forwarding this post many times.

It starts with a ‘chronology,’ listing dates where India, under the able leadership of Narendra Modi, defeated coronavirus. And it concludes that it is a biological war waged against India, a conspiracy against Modi. It is too long to be published here. But the conclusion reads:



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