When News Becomes Fiction: Why Technologists Must Now Defend the Truth

On the night of May 8, 2025, several prominent Indian media channels aired what can only be described as national fiction. Simulated strikes on Karachi. Claims of enemy surrenders. False flag victories. All reported without official confirmation or military authentication. In short: a misinformation war, broadcast at scale. As a technologist and citizen, I cannot ignore the systemic threat this poses — not just to public discourse, but to national stability. The Problem: Fiction Dressed as Fact When media backed by reputation, reach, and revenue decides to manufacture events, it’s not just journalistic failure — it's digital warfare. In the era of AI-generated content, deepfakes, and rapid content virality, even a single night of misinformation can escalate geopolitical tensions. What Can We — as Builders of Technology — Do? Here’s my call to action: Build truth-verifying systems Use AI to flag sensationalism, fake visuals, and unverifiable claims in real time. Create public archives and contradiction logs Develop dashboards and NLP models to compare past claims vs real outcomes. Educate internal teams on media hygiene Every tech company should run misinformation awareness as part of onboarding. Support civil watchdogs Partner with fact-checkers and media accountability orgs using your dev expertise. This Isn't Politics. This Is Sanity. Whether left, right, or centre — when facts collapse, discourse collapses. And when discourse collapses, democracy weakens. Technologists cannot afford to be neutral spectators. If we can build systems to trade, transact, and predict — we can build systems to verify. DoozieSoft’s Stand At DoozieSoft, we are not just coding for scale — we are coding for credibility. We believe in designing systems grounded in trust, accountability, and factual integrity. Let’s build not just features, but fortresses of truth. If you’re building tools that empower people with truth — drop a comment or connect. Let's collaborate where it matters.

May 9, 2025 - 21:10

When News Becomes Fiction: Why Technologists Must Now Defend the Truth

On the night of May 8, 2025, several prominent Indian media channels aired what can only be described as national fiction.

Simulated strikes on Karachi. Claims of enemy surrenders. False flag victories. All reported without official confirmation or military authentication.

In short: a misinformation war, broadcast at scale.

As a technologist and citizen, I cannot ignore the systemic threat this poses — not just to public discourse, but to national stability.

The Problem: Fiction Dressed as Fact

When media backed by reputation, reach, and revenue decides to manufacture events, it’s not just journalistic failure — it's digital warfare.

In the era of AI-generated content, deepfakes, and rapid content virality, even a single night of misinformation can escalate geopolitical tensions.

What Can We — as Builders of Technology — Do?

Here’s my call to action:

Build truth-verifying systems

Use AI to flag sensationalism, fake visuals, and unverifiable claims in real time.
Create public archives and contradiction logs

Develop dashboards and NLP models to compare past claims vs real outcomes.
Educate internal teams on media hygiene

Every tech company should run misinformation awareness as part of onboarding.
Support civil watchdogs

Partner with fact-checkers and media accountability orgs using your dev expertise.

This Isn't Politics. This Is Sanity.

Whether left, right, or centre — when facts collapse, discourse collapses. And when discourse collapses, democracy weakens.

Technologists cannot afford to be neutral spectators. If we can build systems to trade, transact, and predict — we can build systems to verify.

DoozieSoft’s Stand

At DoozieSoft, we are not just coding for scale — we are coding for credibility.

We believe in designing systems grounded in trust, accountability, and factual integrity.

Let’s build not just features, but fortresses of truth.

If you’re building tools that empower people with truth — drop a comment or connect. Let's collaborate where it matters.