How WhatsApp fuels fake news and violence in India, where a police officer says people can live without oxygen, "but without WhatsApp they will die" (Timothy McLaughlin/Wired)

Timothy McLaughlin / Wired:
How WhatsApp fuels fake news and violence in India, where a police officer says people can live without oxygen, “but without WhatsApp they will die”  —  BY THE TIME police arrived in the hamlet of Rainpada on July 1, 2018, the village council office was the scene of a massacre.

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