LAHORE: Although governments all over the world, including Pakistan, are struggling to arrest or at least curtail the spread of fake news through social media platforms, the problem is getting worse with every passing day, meaning thereby that the laws enacted to harness these unbridled interactive communication networks are not working.
The term “Fake News” dates from the late 19th Century, when journalists used it to attack their rival newspapers and magazines. However former American president Donald Trump popularized it!
According to an eminent American broadcaster, the NBC News, “falsehoods spread like wildfire on social media, getting quicker and longer-lasting pickup than the truth. This is what M/s “Statista”, a German company specialising in market and consumer data, had observed in its June 16, 2021 report: “Fake news is an insidious and widespread issue in the news industry as a whole and has become a global problem. In the United States, the term and concept grew in popularity during the 2016 election, but has since manifested itself in areas outside the realm of politics. The most recent example of this is the COVID-19 pandemic – almost 80 percent of consumers in the United States reported having seen fake news on the Corona outbreak, highlighting the extent of the issue and the reach fake news can achieve”.
“Statista”, which contains more than 1,000,000 statistics on more than 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and 170 different industries, and...
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