PROMULGATION OF FAKE NEWS IN JOURNALISM

Abstract

The recent fake news discussion focuses heavily on the strategy of American and British post-truth and the political usage of 'alternative facts.' Questions about the effects of fake news on media are not confined to Europe and only to American contexts. This essay seeks to examine the tradition in India of journalism and post-truth-era learning. Apprehensions tend to be somewhat different elsewhere, unlike the questions anticipated in the American debate on the need to re-engage and consider and sympathies with the non-elite population and the emergence of a fact-checking culture. Obstructive institutional variables such as insufficient regulatory bodies and obsolete curricula in university journalism programs are also addressed in India, addressing the issues of the post-truth age. The Commentary argues that scholars of Indian journalism will concentrate on creating a dynamic curriculum system that combines interactive verification practices with a focus on engaging the public to solve the problem of the nation's mysterious post-truth world.