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Death by Twitter

In April, misled by fake news, Congress MP Shashi who fell for a death hoax. The party chief tweeted that the demise of former Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, 89, was ‘the end of an era’. Singh’s post triggered off a flood of similar tributes before the octogenarian leader’s grandson, a minister in the UP government, clarified otherwise.

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