India Misinformed: The True Story - Softcover

P. Sinha; S. Shaikh; A. Sidharth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 935302837X ISBN 13: 9789353028374

Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2019

Synopsis

The propaganda of misinformation and hoaxes disseminated through print, graphics, and social media has altered the social landscape of this nation. It has led to multiple cases of lynching, mob violence, defamation and riots, and continues to pose a serious threat to Indian democracy. India Misinformed: The True Story, written by the team of Alt News, a fact-checking website that debunks fake information - and edited by Pratik Sinha, Dr Sumaiya Shaikh and Arjun Sidharth - identifies the purveyors of fabricated news, exposes the propaganda machinery and familiarizes readers with techniques to detect these menacing stories. Was Jawaharlal Nehru anti-Hindu? Was Narendra Modi declared one of the most corrupt prime ministers in the world? Is Sonia Gandhi the fourth richest woman in the world? Did Rahul Gandhi register as a non-Hindu at the Somnath Temple? With photographs to establish its claims, India Misinformed: The True Story presents the real picture.

About this title

Product Description:

The propaganda of misinformation and hoaxes disseminated through print, graphics, and social media have altered the social landscape of this country. Not only has it led to multiple cases of lynching, mob violence, defamation, and riots, fake news also poses a serious threat to Indian democracy and its electoral policies. This book is an anthology of essays that expose the machinery behind the circulation of fake news, to be edited by Pratik Sinha,Sumaiya Shaikh and Arjun Sidharth from Alt News, a factchecking website that debunks false information. To be released ahead of the elections in 2019, this volume with a foreword by noted journalist Ravish Kumar, will establish how dishonest information is spread, who is behind it, and how the ordinary reader can detect such misinformation

About the Author:

Pratik Sinha is the co-founder of Alt News. Dr Sumaiya Shaikh, a neuroscientist in Sweden, is the science editor. Arjun Sidharth is a writer with Alt News. He has previously worked in the television news industry.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins India
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 935302837X
• ISBN 13: 9789353028374
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250