Fear, trusting social media, inability to confirm
the ‘news.’
When a text
can trigger a lynching: WhatsApp struggles with incendiary messages
in India
A WhatsApp text circulating in some districts of
India’s central Madhya Pradesh state helped to inflame a mob of
50-60 villagers into savagely beating up two innocent men last week
on suspicion that they were going to murder people and sell their
body parts.
The essence of the message, written in Hindi, was
that 500 people disguised as beggars were roaming the area so that
they could kill people to harvest their organs. The message also
urged recipients to forward it to friends and family. Police say the
message was fake.
Police officers who joined several local WhatsApp
groups, found three men circulating the message and they were
arrested, said Jayadevan A, the police chief for Balaghat district,
where the incident occurred.
This happened just weeks after a WhatsApp text
warning of 400 child traffickers arriving in the southern Indian
technology hub of Bengaluru led a frenzied mob to lynch a 26-year-old
man, a migrant construction worker from another Indian state, on
suspicions that he was a kidnapper.
Something I can pull
some ideas from?
Fake News,
Lies, and Propaganda: The Class
“The slides for the University of MichiganLOEX
2018 session entitled Fake News, Lies, and a For-credit Class:
Lessons Learned from Teaching a 7-Week Fake News Undergraduate
Library Course are here.
An open
Canvas version of the course is available as well. Look for a
Canvas version of the course in the Commons if you are a Canvas
campus. The assignments in the Canvas Commons course take advantage
of the integration of Google Drive and Canvas on our campus. See the
assignment materials below if the Canvas assignments are unavailable
to you. A machine-readable
version of the syllabus is available. A
PDF of the syllabus is also available. Finally, the materials
below include the lesson plans, slides, and homework assignments for
each of the 7 weeks of the course. You can find the course proposal
here.”
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