Support the fact-based journalism you rely on with a donation to Marketplace today. Give Now!

Social media, elections and fake news: India edition

Apr 5, 2019
As national elections approach, voters are being targeted with fake news on WhatsApp.
An Indian newspaper vendor reads a newspaper with a full back page advertisement from WhatsApp intended to counter fake information in New Delhi on July 10, 2018.
Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images

4 things to know about Russian internet usage

Apr 13, 2018
Russians really love YouTube.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a joint hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and Senate Judiciary Committee  about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on April 10.
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images