 "Facebook goes offline in India to campaign against fake news")
The world’s largest social network Facebook has launched an offline campaign in local English newspapers in India educating readers on how to identify ‘false news’, a more subdued term for fake news, which has become an epidemic on its platform.
India has the largest base of users for Facebook and its instant messaging service WhatsApp in the world. Over 241 million people in India are on Facebook while WhatsApp has over 200 million users in the country.
With hundreds of millions of users accessing its platforms on a daily basis, several people have begun questioning Facebook’s inability to curb the
