Winston Churchill once famously said, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.” Today, in the age of social media, that lie may well travel around the world ten times over. A lie packaged as fake news has now become a major menace — an industry unto itself. Savour this: between April 2020 and April 2025, in a span of five years, the PIB Fact Check Unit received over 1.6 lakh queries and debunked more than 2,200 fake news items. These numbers reveal the vast scale of the problem. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, as it is only a small fraction of the misinformation circulating each day. The rot runs deep and is increasing with every passing day, thanks to social media and AI-generated........

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