{"id":131800,"date":"2020-07-18T03:33:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=131800"},"modified":"2020-07-18T03:33:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:03:51","slug":"ipr-committee-rebuts-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/07\/18\/ipr-committee-rebuts-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"IPR committee rebuts fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAHARLAGUN, Jul 17:<\/strong> The IPR department&#8217;s fact-checking committee said that the widely circulated news on social media about eight doctors of the TRIHMS being infected with Covid-19 &#8220;is totally fake and devoid of any authenticity.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe committee said it has issued a rebuttal to the fake news and circulated it widely.<br \/>\n&#8220;Covid-19 State Nodal Officer Dr L Jampa and Covid-19 State Assistant Nodal Officer Dr Dipu Lowang have expressed concern over rampant sharing and forwarding of fake news, especially on social media,&#8221; the team said.<br \/>\nDrs Jampa and Lowang have urged the people to refrain from posting fake news, especially pertaining to Covid-19, as it is likely to create fear and panic among the people, it said.<br \/>\n&#8220;The DIPR is doing its bit to check fake news on social media. The department is also engaged in creating awareness on various facets of Covid-19 through &#8216;Arunachal Rising&#8217; campaign across the state,&#8221; the team said. (DIPR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAHARLAGUN, Jul 17: The IPR department&#8217;s fact-checking committee said that the widely circulated news on social media about eight doctors of the TRIHMS being infected with Covid-19 &#8220;is totally fake and devoid of any authenticity.&#8221; The committee said it has issued a rebuttal to the fake news and circulated it widely. &#8220;Covid-19 State Nodal Officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-131800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}