For Fact’s Sake podcast: How could ‘fake news’ impact elections in India?

It’s the final episode of our three-part For Fact’s Sake series on elections.

This week, we are looking at the biggest vote taking place in this election year, in India.

Ali and Paul spoke to Jency Jacob, the managing editor of BOOM, a fact checking organisation based in India and also covering Myanmar and Bangladesh.

He explained the difficulties of fact-checking in an election that covers a billion potential voters, and the types of misinformation that voters in India encounter.

We also have the second of our Conspiracy Dictionary segment, where Ali and Paul discuss chemtrails.

Show notes:

• BOOM fact check’s work is available here.
• Follow Jency Jacob on X here.
• More chemtrails explanation here.

Ferret Fact Service (FFS) is a non-partisan fact checker, and signatory to the International Fact-Checking Network fact-checkers’ code of principles.

All the sources used in our checks are publicly available and the FFS fact-checking methodology can be viewed here.

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