References:

Books:

• Shu, K., Sliva, A., Wang, S., Tang, J., & Liu, H.(2017). Fake news detection on social media: A data mining perspective. ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter, 19(1), 22-36.
   
• Vosoughi, S., Roy, D., & Aral, S. (2018). The spread of true and false news online. Science, 359(6380), 1146-1151.
   
• Loftus, E. F. (2005). Planting misinformation in the human mind: A 30-year investigation of the malleability of memory. Learning & memory, 12(4), 361-366.
   
• Arun, C. (2019). On WhatsApp, Rumours, Lynchings, and the Indian Government.
  Economic & Political Weekly, 54(6).
   
• Bode, L., & Vraga, E. K. (2015). In related news, that was wrong: The correction of misinformation through related stories functionality in social media. Journal of Communication, 65(4), 619-638.
   
• Banaji, S., Bhat, R., Agarwal, A., Passanha, N. & Pravin M. S. (2019). WhatsApp Vigilantes: An exploration of citizen reception and circulation of WhatsApp misinformation linked to mob violence in India. Department of Media and Communications, LSE
   
• Bhaskaran, H., Mishra, H., & Nair, P. (2017). Contextualizing fake news in post-truth era: Journalism education in India. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 27(1), 41-50.
   
• Lazer, D. M., Baum, M. A., Benkler, Y., Berinsky, A. J., Greenhill, K. M., Menczer, F., ... & Schudson, M. (2018). The science of fake news. Science, 359(6380), 1094-1096.
   
• Aronson, J. (1995). A pragmatic view of thematic analysis. The qualitative report, 2(1), 1-3.
   
• Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2019). Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning. Cognition, 188, 39-50.
   
• Van der Linden, S., Leiserowitz, A., Rosenthal, S., & Maibach, E. (2017). Inoculating the public against misinformation about climate change. Global Challenges, 1(2), 1600008.
   
• Cook J, Lewandowsky S, Ecker UKH (2017) ‘Neutralizing misinformation through inoculation: exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence’. PLoS ONE 12(5).
   
• Roozenbeek, J., & van der Linden, S. (2019). Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation. Palgrave Communications, 5(1), 1-10.
   
• Badrinathan, S., Chauchard, S. & Flynn, D.J. (2020). “I Don’t Think That’s True, Bro!” An Experiment on Fact-checking WhatsApp Rumors in India. Unpublished manuscript.
   
• Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2019). Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(7), 2521-2526.
   
• Tschiatschek, S., Singla, A., Gomez Rodriguez, M., Merchant, A., & Krause, A. (2017). Detecting fake news in social networks via crowdsourcing. arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.09025. CASE STU
   

Web:

• Pti. (2019, March 6). India has the cheapest mobile data in world: Study. Retrieved 15 March 2020 from
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• Christopher, N. (2020, February 18). We’ve Just Seen the First Use of Deepfakes in an Indian Election Campaign. Retrieved 15 March 2020 from
  https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/jgedjb/the-firstuse-of-deepfakes-in-indian-election-by-bjp
   
• Rs.10,000 reward for those whose hate message plaint turns into FIR. (2020, March 4). Retrieved 15 March 2020 from
  https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/delhi-reporting-fake-news-hate-messages-can-earnyou-rs-10-000/story-hxuQk4ysq2XIuXCe9TpxgO.html
   
• Deep, A. (2018, August 27). Exclusive: Government makes notices to WhatsApp, responses public. Retrieved 15 March 2020 from
  https://www.medianama.com/2018/08/223-government-letters-whatsapp-meity/

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