Screening of facts
- Amir Ali Shah (23) from Bijbehara town of Anantnag district has invested more than two years to come up with website ‘Stop Fake in Kashmir’
- The webpage will keeptabs on unverified and fake news being circulated onthe social media where users can upload a link or screenshot of the news they want to verify
- The back-end team of the website will also run the information through its sources on the ground and check the veracity of the news
To tackle the menace of fake news, a youth from south Kashmir’ Anantnag district has developed a website on which news can be verified and facts can be checked.
Amir Ali Shah (23) from Bijbehara town of Anantnag district has invested more than two years to come up with website ‘Stop Fake in Kashmir’. The website is the first of its kind developed in the Kashmir valley.
Though the formal launch of the website is a week or so away, it is already up and running over the Internet.
The website, says Shah, will act as a watchdog to keep tabs on unverified and fake news circulated on the social media where users can upload a link or screenshot of the news they want to verify.
“The website will give a feedback on whether the news is true or fake based on web searches,” Amir Shah says.
Moreover, he says that the back-end team of the website will also run the information through its sources on the ground and check the veracity of the news.
Shah conceived the idea of developing such a platform in January 2016 after the entire Kashmir valley went into mass hysteria following fake news that suggested that the polio vaccine administered to children was expired and had caused some deaths.
