Pune Police urge people to 'break the chain of misinformation and fake news'; see post

In an attempt to curb misinformation from spreing on internet amid ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Pune police on August 18 shared a creative that urged people t to forward messs without first verifying its aunticity. In a witty Twitter post, police shared an im that indicated “always verify before forward” using keyp symbols, with a hashtag #ToFakeNews. department’s official handle captioned creative, saying, that people must at least take a minute to re and establish factual accuracy of information prior to sliding it to someone else’s phone or on social media. 

vocating need of spreing auntic information as a healthy practice in society, Pune Police department appealed to citizens to “break chain” of ‘fake news’. With vent of social media and Whatsapp, while it gets challenging to tell apart fact from fiction due to platform’s free speech and limited restrictions, police forbe people from “thriving” that culture.  False information can have major repercussions in pointing people’s view about a certain burning scenario or idea of a situation, refore, department has been stressing on need to “stay away” from augmented, manufactured, or falsified content. Especially amid pandemic, as insecurities and fear loom large among major population of society. 

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Internet ackwledged importance of facts and appreciated police’s post. “Absolutely! I would go ahe and say, do you really need to forward? Is it helping someone? Or it's just a point to discuss? If at all you want to forward, forward harmless jokes, entertainment clips - but forwarding news is dangerous, most of time it is an opinion, t news,” a user wrote, agreeing to Pune Police. 

Forward validated information

Earlier, on August 14 in a similar nature of visory, Pune police warned people against sharing “manufactured opinions” as “facts” on text messaging platform WhatsApp. In a Tweet titled as ‘What-A-Siyappa’, department reminded citizens to here to forwarding only validated information and t circulate “lies”. As in India, majority population connected via WhatsApp tends to fall in trap of fake news forwarded among “personal chat groups” for family, friends, and colleagues. re’s also risk for information to go viral in a very short period of time. 

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