India calls for collaboration between nations and tech companies to check misinformation

"The pandemic has demonstrated the existential dilemma of an information society. We have been exposed to misinformation and disinformation campaigns which have put lives and livelihoods of millions at risk, divided communities with fake news and doctored videos and undermined the trust in public authorities to tackle the disease," Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Paulomi Tripathi said at the forum.

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