Manipur, April 24 -- Thanks to technology, one no longer has to wait for breaking stories to appear in print. In fact, breaking stories are reaching readers online across the globe within minutes of an actual event or incident.

But if there's something that online breaking news cannot commit to: it is factual accuracy, as social media places more importance on how many likes, shares and comments a post can garner, letting things to escalate without providing the true picture.

We bring to our readers how a fact checking of a viral news about a seven-year-old student from the state attending a UN event disappeared in a matter of hours after IFP did fact checking and contacted the website that broke the news.

On Tuesday, April 23, there w...