A nation of Tweeters and a messy prologue to a startlingly trivial election

The hashtag triumph of the prime minister's "Main Bhi Chowkidar" campaign on Twitter over the equally silly Congress "Chowkidar Chor hai" sloganeering reads like a TV soap about politics

“There was lying on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp; there was lying on TV… doctored pictures were aired and shared, and real pictures were dismissed as doctored… On both sides (the lies) suggested a society that had slipped the bonds of rationality and fallen completely into the post-fact order.”

Farhad Manjoo, tech columnist for The New York Times on the coverage of the India-Pakistan conflict. 

Given all the fake news proliferating in the world today from sources as varied as the Trump White House and the people who pushed for Brexit in Britain, it is worrying when a lead commentator on the digital