Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Crackup at this Crackdown

 

Indian government calls a crackdown on fake news. The words “fake news”, were adopted from the embarrassing truths that President Trump called “fake news”. The crackdown lasted LESS than a day. The Indian government stressed that they would take away the accreditation of the journalist who spread “fake news”. Journalist were threatened that their accreditation would be revoked six months after a first violation, one year after a second violation and permanently after three violations. This whole exercise is to curb the freedom of the press,” said the Vice President of association, M. V. Shreyams Kumar.  The plan was immediately shut down. [ 1 link, 1 image, 1 quite, 102 words]

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