OPINION

Society falls prey to disinformation

News, Pirongrong Ramasoota, Published on 11/09/2018

» As Facebook executives appeared last Thursday before a Senate hearing in the United States to defend the world's most-accessed and frequented communication platform against accusations of promoting disinformation, a rigorous debate about fake news was taking centre stage at the Communication Policy Research South conference in Maputo, Mozambique, funded by the Canada-based International Development Research Centre (IDRC).