The manager at Vishvas News, Facebook’s largest Indian-language fact-checking contractor, spent two weeks recently talking with Internet users in small cities. “It’s a dark space that nobody talks about.”About 90% of Internet users coming online today are non-English speakers, often with more trusting attitudes than experienced surfers. Native language internet users are forecast to make up three quarters of the country’s online users by 2021. And Hindi Internet users alone will outnumber English Internet users by that year. Whatever the result in India’s election, there’s no denying that fake news has amplified rage and polarisation.

Source: The Star May 21, 2019 06:22 UTC