Does the nation really know?

It was always thought that the coming of the information age would bring the world closer and make it much more transparent. But there maybe a thing that they writers of dystopian futures got right: the spreading of misinformation. Today, the world is reeling from an epidemic called fake news. Everyday, people have to deal with differentiating between what is the truth and what is fabrication. While the internet has made things very simple for millions of people, it has also added a renewed complication which has no simple solution. In this episode of 'Raise The Question', we discuss and try to understand the ideology that prompts different people across the world to fabricate news, how one can do real research on the internet and why it is important check the source of any information before transmitting or broadcasting it further.