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To fight fake news on WhatsApp, India is turning off the internet

Author:: Burgess, Matt
Publication:: Wired UK
Year:: 2018

The world’s largest democracy has a problem. As fake news spreads on WhatsApp, causing riots and deaths, authorities are left with only one option: turn off the internet completely

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