Create Post
'Joke' Indian Tweet Lands Babar Azam In Fake Sexting Media Storm
Indian media is awash with articles on how Pakistan cricket captain Babar Azam was allegedly "sexting" another player's girlfriend. Sponsored by Vuukle The Twitter handle is marked "Parody account", but that did not stop the tweet from being viewed almost 850,000 times and being sprayed across media in India -- Pakistan's arch-rival on the cricket field and off -- and elsewhere. Blue tick 'verification' The parody account's Twitter profile had a blue checkmark, with a message explaining that the account was "verified" because its owner had paid for the new Twitter Blue subscription introduced by the site's owner, Elon Musk. False information can spread like wildfire -- with sometimes deadly consequences. India has the largest number of certified fact-checking organisations in the world, according to the International Fact-Checking Network, but they can only chip away at the mountain of fake news generated every day. Source - NDTV
- 0
- 0
- ₹0
