Political campaigns are influenced by every story or move whether the event is genuine or fake, that get circulated on social media like rumours. It is very difficult to separate true news from fake news. Rivals start making GIF ’s, fake images, memes, links and rumours about political parties and leaders and the general audience believes on those creatives.
There are also sites with political biases and posting untrue controversial stories. It’s very easy for the audience to get influenced by this type of stories or theories. It is very necessary to segregate the actual news and fake creatives to keep your voters favourable.
Here we will discuss a recent scenario during elections in karnataka, even there were stringent security on polling booths and police patrolling prevented violent activities, witnesses said elections conducted on 12th may been solely peaceful, still there were rumours on communal clashes in an polling area, Cops inspected and found no sign of violence.
These type of fake news create buzz during elections which affects election results.