TopicWhatsApp rumors

Topic: WhatsApp rumors

Why liberals love to fantasise about a Narendra Modi-Amit Shah split. Five reasons

Rama Lakshmi - 9 May, 2020

After Vajpayee-Advani, Sonia-Manmohan, the latest targets of break-up theories are Amit Shah and Narendra Modi.

WhatsApp warriors during Covid-19 crisis — first line of defence for PM Modi

Taran Deol - 6 April, 2020

Messages on how coronavirus will be killed due to high temperature started circulating on WhatsApp, justifying PM Modi’s call to light candles and torches.

WhatsApp isn’t shutting down, you don’t have to pay to use it. Viral forwards are fake

Simrin Sirur - 4 July, 2019

Attributed to PM Modi, one of the several messages doing the rounds claims WhatsApp will be shut from 11.30 pm to 6.00 am daily.

Quitting the school WhatsApp group is the liberation Indians need

Sandip Roy - 3 February, 2019

We went to the same school, but we certainly all went to different WhatsApp universities.

That rumour you read on WhatsApp can be deadly

Aviv Ovadya - 25 January, 2019

Differential privacy is a potential solution to battle fake news. Apple uses it to extract insights from large sets of data without compromising any particular individual's privacy.

After warning WhatsApp, Modi govt asks states to be alert & prevent lynchings

Ananya Bhardwaj - 5 July, 2018

Fake news propagated through social media has taken a bloody turn in India, with one such rumour leading to at least 29 deaths. New Delhi:...

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India has interests on both sides of US-China divide. Cold War holds clues for path ahead

Lt General Prakash Menon - 5 July, 2022

India’s strategic balance is weighted towards the West and its economic balance is towards China. But it needs more to build a multipolar world order.