I have realised that no one can stay immune to the information epidemic around us for long. Not yours truly. Not my father. Not my best friends. And not my sister. An information epidemic, or an ‘infodemic’ ,could be described as a rapid proliferation of reliable and mostly unreliable information.
The world around us is churning these days, moving and moving but never reaching anywhere. Lies are being mass-produced in digital factories and greedily bought while the truth is up for sale, desperately waiting to be taken home. And amid this mess, it is a commonplace occurrence that we all, at some point in our lives, have bought into some news that wasn’t news at all.
I would like to confess that there is no end to the things I have been told by people around me, and more often than not, I use that information to argue with my friends. And more often than not, I lose my debates. And sometimes even my friends.
