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They say that a lie can travel halfway across the world as the truth is putting its shoes on. In these days of fake news, this has never run so true. How should we keep ourselves sane and well-informed, then?
They say that a lie can travel halfway across the world as the truth is putting its shoes on. In these days of fake news, this has never run so true.
How should we keep ourselves sane and well-informed, then?
Who do we believe?
R says: My aunt once told me, “What is history? It is ‘His Story’”.
So, the history which we base all our knowledge on is probably based off facts, but still the perspective of the person and the times he/she wrote it in.
You see how all great men in politics, religion etc. were all men!
Probably, if women wrote history, our history books would have different stories to tell.
News, too, has always been a perspective worsened by political polarization in case of political news, corporate polarization in terms of any other news, and sometimes corporate polarization in case of political news too!
As far as news and other information go, I think we are in better times, because free media and anonymous modes to spread information have given us access to information which we never had before.
So yes, how do we pick and decide? Well, it is tough. Probably listen to all the different perspectives and decide for ourselves what sounds right to us.
Or decide based on the ‘reputation’ of the news item.
The other day, I was reading an article which talked about moving from information age to ‘reputation age’.
With the availability of so much information, we tend to rely on information which has been filtered, evaluated and commented on by others. Essentially, we believe what the mass believes!
And if it is all too much information, just let it go! No news is good news!
S says: I, for one, think that there is reason enough to be alarmed. If you don’t know who to believe, well, we are just one step away from chaos. That is how you have mobs and riots.
R says: I think those were common in the old days too. Only they would call them ‘lynch mobs with pitchforks’.
S says: My point is, you need a trusted source. A voice of reason, unblemished and pure. I have an idea – I think robots are the answer. Someone who can never be biased and untruthful.
R says: Except for the people who program them, I would think.
S says: True. There is no escape from the lies. We are doomed.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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