Dissemination of false news, deflecting of truth, or what in media studies is called gatekeeping of information by several media platforms seems to have risen in this era of mass media and the internet (Husain, 2020, para. 02; Yadav, 2020, para. 02). As used in India for a fake news hub, “WhatsApp University” [a pejorative coined by Ravish Kumar, referring to the fake news and misinformation spread in India through WhatsApp forwards] has become a more reliable source of information and knowledge than the actual universities, “a black hole of fake news” (Ponniah, 2019, para. 30). That WhatsApp is being used by the “volunteers of the ruling party” as a tool to spread fake news is well documented (Perrigo, 2019; Sinha et al., 2019, p. 01).