This is the Executive Summary of Future of India Foundation’s upcoming report, “Politics of Disinformation”. An edited version was printed as an oped in the Indian Express Social media platforms have effectively supplanted traditional information networks in India. While large parts of the country have come online due to one of the cheapest internet costs in the world, the dialectical relationship between online content, traditional news media (especially television) and political networks means that the messages propagated online effectively touch even that section of the population which is not yet online.
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