Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, for all practical purposes, recently threatened धमकी देना Israel with a retaliatory मुहतोड़ nuclear attack, in response to a fake गलत news report that the Israelis had said they would use nuclear weapons against Pakistan if it sent ground troops सेना to Syria. Earlier, a man fired an assault हमला rifle in a pizzeria in Washington, D.C. after reading online that it was involved in a child trafficking ring linked to Hillary Clinton. In India, a fake story said there was a GPS tracking chip embedded लागु करना in the new Rs.2,000 note. Fake news — the deliberate जानबूझकर creation of factually incorrect content to mislead people for some gain — is becoming an increasingly serious problem. And tackling निपटने it is imperative अनिवार्य in a perpetually निरन्तर रूप से wired and click-happy world. Everyone with an Internet connection and a social media presence उपस्थिति is now a content generator. Access to the web at all times on mobile platforms has raised expectations उम्मीद for real-time news and constant entertainment, and competition among websites and social media platforms has resulted in the proliferation प्रसार of ‘click-bait’. With platforms such as Facebook, that have hundreds of millions of users, news, fake or otherwise, spreads rapidly.
While the news may be fake, its impact is real and potentially far-reaching दूरगामी . A recent study from the Pew Research Center found that approximately two-thirds of Americans felt ‘fake news’ had caused a “great deal of confusion” over current affairs. The abundance of fake stories during the U.S. presidential elections has raised concerns चिंताओ about their impact on election results. This has set alarm bells ringing in Europe where several countries are about to go to the polls. Germany is considering मानते हुए imposing a €500,000 fine on Facebook if it shares fake news, and an Italian regulator नियामक has asked European countries to set up an agency to combat युद्ध fake news. The danger is that instruments to identify fake news could become muzzles थूथन on opinion and speech. Therefore, while such regulation is needed, it is vital that it comes from within. Social media and news organisations can regulate themselves at different levels, most importantly through rigorous कठिन internal editorial सम्पादकीय and advertising standards. Industry-wide measures, such as adherence अनुपालन to a charter of standards on fake news and imposition of fines on organisations falling short of these, could be done. Meanwhile, the broad contours of what constitutes गठित करना fake news need to be defined. News and social media companies have a moral responsibility to ensure सुनिश्चित that they do not, directly or otherwise, deliberately जान बूझकर misrepresent गलत मतलब लेना the facts to their audiences and pass them off for news. If it is a post-truth world we inhabit निवाश करना , this becomes especially important.
VOCABULARY
- Threatened धमकी देना
- Retaliatory मुहतोड़
- Troops सेना
- Assault हमला
- Fake गलत
- Embedded लागु करना
- Deliberate जानबूझकर
- Tackling निपटने
- Imperative अनिवार्य
- Perpetually निरन्तर रूप से
- Presence उपस्थिति
- Expectations उम्मीद
- Proliferation प्रसार
- Far-reaching दूरगामी
- Concerns चिंताओ
- Considering मानते हुए
- Regulator नियामक
- Combat युद्ध
- Muzzles थूथन
- Rigorous कठिन
- Editorial सम्पादकीय
- Adherence अनुपालन
- Constitutes गठित करना
- Ensure सुनिश्चित
- Deliberately जान बूझकर
- Misrepresent गलत मतलब लेना
- Inhabit निवाश करना
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