After a lot of discussions on Fake news,I am adding some input on how to stop fake news involving all stakeholders. Measures to Combat Fake News Surveillance : Robust surveillance and compliance mechanism to ensure healthy accessible content to people. Source of news should be verified. Reporting : People should have the opportunity to report illicit content through flagging, and definite steps should be taken to see its credibility. Also people involved in this should be scrutinized Awareness : Social media can also be used to increase the awareness in people to ensure equality, end of discrimination on any grounds and ensure harmony Working with Authority/Sharing info : It should be the ethical responsibility to work in close connection with the concerned authority and share data at times of crisis for reasons of National security and public order. Legal tools may face challenges to curb fake news propagation due to following reasons: They are generated from several sou...
Award winning Key Note Speaker at International Level, Professor Ajit Kumar Roy is an acclaimed researcher and consultant. In recent past was engaged as National Consultant (Impact Assessment), for East &North-Eastern States of India at ICAR. Prior to that, he had served as a Consultant (Statistics) at Central Agricultural University, Agartala. Earlier had served at ICAR-CIFA, , as Principal Scientist . Editorial Board Member, of few International biostatistics journals.