<p class="title">In an attempt to curb the spread of fake news on Whatsapp groups and other media platforms, the Rajasthan Police has decided to create awareness about fake handles.</p>.<p class="title">With a unique initiative to help Twitter users identify and ignore the fake news, the Rajasthan Police has chosen to spread awareness by highlighting exposes by SM Hoax Slayer, a fact-checker portal, which runs a drive on Twitter exposing fake news.</p>.<p class="title">Speaking through its Twitter handle, the Rajasthan Police said they would be launching a programme to help people differentiate between fake and real news.</p>.<p class="title">On Wednesday, the state police, on its Twitter handle, shared a post under the "exposing fake news series".</p>.<p class="title">They posted a false government notification shared by a Rajasthan IAS officer. </p>.<p class="title">The officer had shared a fake post which claimed that West Bengal government has declared a long holiday on Eid.</p>.<p class="title">The Rajasthan Police tweeted about this post along with a screenshot which showed Kolkata Police denying the news.</p>.<p class="title">In another tweet, the Rajasthan police advised users to check news from multiple sources and not to make any judgements in haste on any post.</p>
<p class="title">In an attempt to curb the spread of fake news on Whatsapp groups and other media platforms, the Rajasthan Police has decided to create awareness about fake handles.</p>.<p class="title">With a unique initiative to help Twitter users identify and ignore the fake news, the Rajasthan Police has chosen to spread awareness by highlighting exposes by SM Hoax Slayer, a fact-checker portal, which runs a drive on Twitter exposing fake news.</p>.<p class="title">Speaking through its Twitter handle, the Rajasthan Police said they would be launching a programme to help people differentiate between fake and real news.</p>.<p class="title">On Wednesday, the state police, on its Twitter handle, shared a post under the "exposing fake news series".</p>.<p class="title">They posted a false government notification shared by a Rajasthan IAS officer. </p>.<p class="title">The officer had shared a fake post which claimed that West Bengal government has declared a long holiday on Eid.</p>.<p class="title">The Rajasthan Police tweeted about this post along with a screenshot which showed Kolkata Police denying the news.</p>.<p class="title">In another tweet, the Rajasthan police advised users to check news from multiple sources and not to make any judgements in haste on any post.</p>