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The True Picture: Eliminating the threat of Hoax stories

Author: Thetruepicture Picture
by Thetruepicture Picture
Posted: Apr 12, 2018

The True Picture: Eliminating the threat of Hoax stories

"Smriti Irani distributing 10,000 cows in Amethi, funded by a Gujrat-based company under the CSR programme."

"A Dalit youth was killed in Gujrat for riding a horse."

"An NCC cadet, who posed questions to Rahul Gandhi and exposed his ignorance of the NCC, was a member of ABVP and thus a political operative."

The above-written news stories were at one point in time making rounds in the mainstream media as leading stories. The general public, whoever read these stories did believe these stories for once. It is a proven fact that a general reader does not have time to verify the news stories and tends to form opinions and decisions based on the stories that they read in any form of media. The opinions and views thus formed effects the Indian democracy in one way or the other. Whether it’s the Indian Economic news stories or Indian Political news stories, the fabricated news does alter the minds of the influencers all over India.

Let’s say, if, readers take out time and start verifying the news and stories that they read in the mainstream media still it will be challenging for them to find out the sources of the fabricated news if any. Due to the sheer vastness of the internet and social media users, it has become quite tough to track the origin of the fake news. The examples of fake or hoax news are endless and possess a significant threat to Indian democracy. Because of the urgency to share the latest piece of information first to the readers, journalist quite often present stories without applying a properfact check indiaand cook up stories from their point of view. This has become a dominant reason behind the altered views, decisions, and opinions negatively.

To tackle the pressing issue of fake, fabricated or hoax news in the present media world, The True Picture has risen to the occasion and strived towards bringing the truth and nothing but the truth. The news and stories as mentioned earlier were among the first four news stories that were initially busted by the True Picture. The Fact Check method and media analysis India technique used extensively by the data science team of the website has made it possible to bring the news and stories in a better light than ever. The true picture team uses the modern natural language processing techniques to check the authenticity and writes factually true stories by using both the qualitative and quantitative data trends.

They do not focus on any single form of news or stories; they dig deep for Indian Economic News stories, Indian political News stories, entertainment news stories, sports news stories and other genres that are leading the mainstream media. The True Picture team study the subject in-depth and bring out valuable details and data from authentic sources by applying thefact check indiaand Media analysis India techniques most efficiently and effectively possible. The data journalism india gets benefitted from this website a lot. The True picture acts as an extension to data journalism india. The facts, figures, and accuracy in data are required in this type of journalism and the True Picture as a whole, works earnestly to bring the same precision and authenticity to the news and stories they handle. This slowly and gradually solving a severe issue of hoax or fake news in today's journalism world.

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This article is written by sant kumar.it is about thetruepicture.The True Picture is one of the best dedicated FactChecker initiative in India.We verify statements and other claims made by those in public life.

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