{"id":22938,"date":"2020-04-05T09:38:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T04:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=22938"},"modified":"2020-04-05T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T04:08:07","slug":"covid-19-dipr-launches-website-to-counter-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=22938","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19  DIPR launches website to counter fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>DIPR launches website to counter fake news<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMMU, APRIL 04:<\/strong> Jammu and Kashmir Department of Information &amp; Public Relations (DIPR) today launched a website to counter fake news and misinformation and to generate awareness among the people in the context of COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur initiative is to help you counter fake news. DIPRJK in its endeavour to help you with true information launches the website <a href=\"http:\/\/diprjkfactcheck.in\">diprjkfactcheck.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check what\u2019s fact &amp; what\u2019s fiction. Our effort to kill fake news and empower the public with information\u201d, tweeted Syed Shehrish Asgar, Director Information &amp; Public Relations.<\/p>\n<p>The department has informed that spreading fake news, misinformation and fear mongering can land a person in jail besides it is a punishable offense and knowingly or unknowingly forwarding any fake news is a crime. Citizens can report any fake news, misinformation, fear\/hate mongering message received on whattsupp or any other social media site on <a href=\"https:\/\/diprjkfactcheck.in\">www.diprjkfactcheck.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The department fervently appealed the public not to fall prey to fake news rather report it, verify and check it at the available official social sites.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, for accurate information people can also visit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/diprjk\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/diprjk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JKInformationOfficial\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JKInformationOfficial\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is pertinent to mention that spreading fake news, misinformation and creating fear mongering is a punishable offence under section 54 of NDMA, 2005 &amp; 505 of IPC and IT (Act).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIPR launches website to counter fake news JAMMU, APRIL 04: Jammu and Kashmir Department of Information &amp; Public Relations (DIPR) today launched a website to counter fake news and misinformation and to generate awareness among the people in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. \u201cOur initiative is to help you counter fake news. DIPRJK in its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}