The Third KB19 Discursive Roundtable: Fake News

The Third KB19 Discursive Roundtable on 22th March, 2019 and examined the phenomenon of Fake News through the lens of the documentary ‘Don Akhbaar’ by filmmaker and artist Dostain Baloch. The panelists journalist and author Zahid Hussain, human rights and writer Zohra Yusuf and Sofyan Sultan the founder of on-line news platform Soch, joined the artist to foreground the factors behind the manipulation of truth in the local and international media and recent initiatives to curb its impact.

The session was moderated by novelist and social activist Aquila Ismail.