Why Fake news are so popular? Answering the question, will probably evaluate public knowledge, awareness, and attitude toward various perceptions that the fake news had created for certain phenomenon or are attached with people, places, and/or human acts. Let’s first talk about Why fake news is so popular? In November 2016, BBC reported (Link-1)…
Celine Dion: a Canadian singer says, “Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this”. Information disorder is one such thing that has been enforce upon us intentionally or unintentionally and now it is up to us how we can…
Hi readers. I am again detracted by a simple but serious comment: “If corona is controversial why people are afraid of it”? Thought provoking, isn’t it? My abrupt answer was “like the word cancer which is more horrific than the disease. We know cancer is curable but hearing the word “cancer” patient takes it for…
Carl Rogers: an American psychologist once said “When I look the world, I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people, I am optimistic” Obviously when news articles and social media stories don’t offer a true look at what’s going on in the world and around us”, one can easily become pessimistic. The question…
Because fake news is densely masked, yet the history has been reveling time and again its actual face of destruction. Oscar Wilde once said, “A mask tells us more than a face.” This will be discussed in this blog to unmask before you the actual face of fake news and subsequent devastation which you may…
Corona virus is a fake news: a simple, innocent but a very serious and shocking question that somebody asked me directly in a gathering. Though I was caught unaware, nevertheless I replied, “perhaps not corona, but its origin is definitely controversial”. Then I decided let’s blog on that. Who knows, there might be several others also wanted to…
Let me tell you at the outset that what I am narrating below is not what was planned for the second episode rather the topic was Fake news: Why it is so popular? But I was detracted due to some comments that I received mostly through WhatsApp and some through email. Some were very interesting.…
‘ Do you know: What is Fake news, social media, and sociopolitical tools? How easily you can distinguish the source in a flood of reasonably looking information? Who are misinformed people? What is fake science? Who are pseudoscientists? What is the essence of being human? What…
We have been hearing since ages that i) agriculture is the lifeline of Pakistan’s economy accounting for 19.5 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), According to trading economics.com, Pakistan’s GDP in 2017 is estimated at US$304.95 billion (PKR 33544.5 billion: PKR 110/1US4) while GDP from agriculture in the same year is estimated at 2284.561…
This article was written for “Pakistan Thinker Forum” for its magazine “Better Pakistan” which is being posted here in 4 parts. It is not necessary that others should agree to what I said, but it’s my right to voice my opinion. Preamble What it means to be a Pakistani? The simple answer is that being…