Thursday, 13 August 2020 | 07:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Fact check of a tweet by US President Trump creates friction between Twitter and White House; Vietnam imposes a fine on its citizens who propagate false news on the social media; Mauritius arrests a person for posting harmful content on the social media… these and more related news are recent headlines. All these points to digital wildfires, which are broadly defined as ‘social media events in which provocative content spreads rapidly and broadly and causes harm.’

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