Hyderabad: Preparing for recruitment examinations in right earnest entails wide and varied activities. Identification and collation of right information is the most important one. This is what we call ‘information era’ where, whether one wants or not, one is flooded with information about anything and everything. Even as you narrow down your perspectives to the […]
By Sruthi Kuruganti Hyderabad: More information leads to even more confusion, caution the experts. In recent years, they have even coined a new term ‘Infodemic’ comparing information overload to ‘pandemic’, for the level of chaos it causes. Alongside affecting our mental health and decision-making ability, information overload can hamper our attention span as well. Besides, […]
New Delhi: It is almost impossible to find any industry or profession that has been immune to Covid-19. The pandemic has touched almost every sector in one way or the other, and its impact on journalism is immense. Most journalists and newsrooms across the world have suffered due to the pandemic. Whether it’s burnout from […]
Research team identified 522,472 news articles that reproduced or amplified misinformation related to the coronavirus pandemic, or what the World Health Organization has called the "infodemic"