BJP making India a very hateful country': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJKiwk3tQY India is drowning in fake news. And much of it is produced by its own political parties. Dedicated "IT cells" supported by highly paid consultants push disinformation on social media with the aim of converting voters to their point of view.
And this isn't limited to elections. Disinformation is warping Indian society itself. The past decade has seen an explosion of hate, a significant part of which has been powered by fake news.
The first line of defence against this tsunami? Fact checkers.
To understand how fact checkers battle this scourge, Scroll's political editor, Shoaib Daniyal, speaks to Alt News co-founder Pratik Sinha on the first episode of Scroll Adda.