Thursday, December 8, 2016

A British tabloid stumbles into Burma’s battle over ‘fake news’

A British tabloid stumbles into Burma’s battle over ‘fake news’
On Wednesday, the Daily Mail published an article online with the headline: "Heartbreaking images show 'Rohingya toddler tortured with a stun gun by laughing Burmese soldier' as Burma continues crackdown on the country's Muslim minority." The story was inaccurate. While the Mail's article did indeed feature horrifying images of a toddler being attacked by a man with an electric prod, […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/12/08/a-british-tabloid-stumbles-into-burmas-battle-over-fake-news/

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