Comment by lurk2
4 months ago
I've heard the social media landscape is a lot different in India because so much of it passes through the comparatively-opaque WhatsApp rumor mill.
4 months ago
I've heard the social media landscape is a lot different in India because so much of it passes through the comparatively-opaque WhatsApp rumor mill.
Compared to?
Most of the West? WhatsApp groups in South Asia seem to work like Telegram groups in Russia, and I don’t know that I’m aware of a European or American equivalent
Do you just mean because the lies shared on WhatsApp are hidden within groups, whereas the lies on X and FB are more public?
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John Oliver did a piece on this back in 2021.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/john-oliver-tackl...