Unfortunately for them, such theories have been gaining so much traction these days; especially so on social media, that it is no longer enough to swathe them with the tag “Fake News”.
“Fake news”, Computer Generated Images (CGIs) and many more have become the perennial tenants of social media warehouses.
Is it surprising that these media outlets are now employing the truth serum syndrome called “FACT CHECKING, to distil the information we can consume?
As these social media platforms engage in paucity of information, what are these restrictions based on, veracity, popularity, political palatability, ideological congruence, or religious and cultural conviviality?
What this tells us is that social media had provided the shackles from packaged information.