ChinesePod News (March 15, 2019)

As India’s 2019 election draws near, social media companies and electoral authorities are struggling to control the spread of fake news in the world’s largest democracy. Since India’s 2014 election, the number of internet users in India has more than doubled, from 250 million to 560 million.

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This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:

遏止: to hold back
疑云: suspicions
巨擘: an authority in a certain field
泛滥: to spread unchecked; to overflow
查核: to examine; to check

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