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Himal Southasian / Raisa Wickrematunge
/ Sep 8“What’s happened in the past 2 to 3 years is increasing weaponisation of social media. And this is through weaponisation of the term fake news, through the weaponisation of the term disinformation, but more fake news. And really obviously, consequently, the frequent targets of these kinds of tactics are journalists, the media organisations. I would not say that this problem is limited to the [Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party], but of course, because it is all political parties and the whole social media space has become part of the problem. But why the PTI is more important here is because they are the government, they’re the pioneers of digital politics and they’re the first to start and become – mobilise online.” —
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disinformation,
Fake news,
Pakistan,
PTI
