by Jennifer Yang Hui and Pravin Prakash
09 APRIL 2019
Source:
Fake News in Indian and Indonesian Elections 2019
Citation:
Jennifer Yang Hui, and Pravin Prakash, “Fake News in Indian and Indonesian Elections 2019”, The Diplomat (Washington DC), 9 April 2019
In both countries, social media platforms are fertile ground for disinformation and hoaxes.
As two of the largest democracies in the world gear up for elections in April and May 2019, it is worth paying close attention to the potential impact of fake news. Fake news is a spectrum of phenomena comprising of falsehoods and even true information disseminated deliberately as well as unintentionally to confuse. Misinformation and more recently, rampant deployment of disinformation campaigns through technological platforms have become a concern in recent elections.
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