Demonetisation’s Fake News Demons

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India’s demonetisation process has been mired in controversy - and now it faces a new challenge: fake news stories about the country’s new banknotes. Rumours have been spreading online suggesting the notes have been embedded with GPS chips, and are even radioactive. And – when trolls started stealing a disabled American boy’s photos and turning them into cruel memes, his mother Jenny decided to start fighting back online. We put her in touch with another mother who fought a very similar battle against the trolls… and won. Image caption:bank employee counts 100 Rupee notes / Image credit: Indranil Mukherjee, Getty Images.