But as the Tehelka article reports, hers was hardly an isolated case: What makes the Gujarat fake encounters particularly disturbing is the cynical and false propaganda that was mounted around them.
The impact of fake news, propaganda and misinformation has been widely scrutinized since the US election.
The proliferation of "fake news" propaganda around the internet was worse than many of us had thought too.
We noticed this fake Census propaganda online, and we don't think it's funny.
"There is a very old word for much of what we call fake news: propaganda," said Bandurski.
On Sunday, Rogen tweeted that he felt Clint Eastwood's new movie, which focuses on deceased Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, reminded him of "Nation's Pride," a fake Nazi propaganda film featured in "Inglourious Basterds".
On Sunday, Rogen tweeted that "American Sniper," Clint Eastwood's film about Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, reminded him of "Nation's Pride," a fake Nazi propaganda film found in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds".
On Sunday, Seth Rogen tweeted that he thought "American Sniper" reminded him of "Nation's Pride," the fake Nazi propaganda film about a sniper shown in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds".
In an editorial titled "Western media's crusade against Facebook," the state-run paper argued that without government regulation — censorship, in other words — fake news, propaganda and rumor would spread disastrously across the internet.
