Twitter to offer crowdsourced fact-check feature to curb fake images, videos

In the 2000s, only newspapers and media channels were the main source of information about the things happenings around the city, the state, the country, and around the world.

Now, with big display-based smartphones, people can get instant information on anything trending around the world at the tip of their hand.

However, most of them lack the ability to discern whether the news they read on a messenger app or a social media platform is real or fake. Add to that, they further share the unverified information with more people and this sometimes leads to confusion among the large community and eventually leads to crime or vigilantism.