Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab

SPURIOUS NEWS
The Cyberspace Issue of Bogus
Information

By: Harsh Mangal

Roll no. 18008
8th Semester
 FAKE NEWS

• Concept is not new, only platform have

developed.

• Intent is to mislead for financial or political

gain.

• Use of Social media to amplify the effect.

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 Why FAKE News?

• India has approximately 376 million active social media users on

country’s four popular social media platforms.

• Teenage years of social media

• Extremely profitable

• Internet illiterate people using social media.

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 Detection & Counter
Measures

• Investigation

• Awareness

• Artificial Intelligence.

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 Steps taken by Government & Intermediaries

• Government of India issue an advisory.

• Social media platforms have taken various initiatives.

• Legal provisions

• Restitutive measures, not repressive.

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