Telcos weaving web of ‘alternative facts’

Years ago, a German philosopher said that constant prevarication is not merely aimed at making targets believe the untruth but, far more dangerously, the goal is to ensuring no one believes anything anymore. The targets become like putty or clay in the hands of the untruth propagandists who can do whatever they want with them. Most scary indeed. Seeing the flood of public statements from a section of Indian telecom, one is convinced that some vested interests here are practitioners par excellence in this approach.