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Vicious Rumors Spread Like Wildfire On WhatsApp — And Destroyed A Village

Author:: Dixit, Pranav; Mac, Ryan
Year:: 2018

In July, residents of a rural Indian town saw rumors of child kidnappers on WhatsApp. Then they beat five strangers to death.

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