Martin McLoone, who has died at 73, was a pioneering influence in media and film studies. Born in Derry on July 12, 1950, he attended St Columb’s, the Catholic boys’ grammar school there, before studying English and history at University College Dublin, where he graduated in 1973.
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Leading to, and during the 2022 elections, there were concerns that disinformation could affect the integrity of the election results, discourage voting, or instil disinterest in the electoral system.
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April 2, 2021
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Jharana Kandel, a media student in Kathmandu, was terrified after her friend forwarded an audio message on her Messenger account on March 20, 2020. Why wouldn’t she be? At a time when Nepal did not have any active Covid-19 cases and the infection was considered a stigma, she was told that Nepal already had six positive cases but the government was hiding them owning to its failure to control the chaos after the revelation.
“I was so scared that I kept washing my hands and sanitising them repeatedly and forced my parents and siblings to do so,” Kandel remembers, “But, I don’t want to remember that day.”