Part 1 of our discussion on FakeNews, hosted with support from Mint. Part 2 | Part 3 "Why don't we just say Fake News is lying", Rahul Narayan, Lawyer said, speaking at MediaNama's discussion on Fake News, Rumors & Online Content Regulation. "Lies which cause problems, which cause communal tension are already a crime and should be treated as such. Lies which are harmless should be dealt with in a moral way, and not a legal way. When it comes to the really serious stuff, it's a crime and should be dealt with as such. When it comes to stuff which is bad or immoral, it should be for self-regulation." Disagreements over what constitutes Fake News continued throughout the discussion: - Is it organised misinformation? There were, however, disagreements between attendees about what constitutes fake news. Arvind Jha, CEO of Pariksha Labs, and a member of the Aam Aadmi Party, tried to create a distinction between what is inaccurate news and Fake News. The report about the (non-existent) GPS chip in the Rs 2000 note, he said, was inaccurate news, not Fake News. "We don't worry about parody - that is freedom of speech - but deliberately created content to obfuscate, or try to create a particular impression for a political reason that we should be really worried about"..."There are groups investing time and money to create stories so that the population can be biased in a particular way so because elections are coming up. It's happening in Finland, Sweden, France,…
