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Misinformation, disinformation present in election campaigning

​​​​​​​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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Nepal needs more fact-checking institutions, but their sustainability is a big question


Bijeesha Budhathoki
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.” ....

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