Talk:Fake news in India

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 21:03, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Vespirited (talk) 18:42, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Done in Special:Diff/1221165570. Thanks for reporting this.​ — Newslinger talk 07:53, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The entire first 1/3 of that is completely unsourced.

The latter 1/3 is of an very disputable source - namely Al Jazeera, which repeatedly has openly sided with Hamas in spreading disinformation. 2A02:A452:1BE2:1:EB95:9E92:9323:50BE (talk) 16:14, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]