Fudging Covid news by The Hindu
Fake news is of several kinds: it can be something that's blatantly false, or it can be more subtle. Here we see how The Hindu misleads its readers with its data. The Hindu chooses to show the *absolute number* of cases, while it shows the number of tests in *per million population* terms. This makes India's position look alarming -- in the chart, it appears that India has nearly the same number of cases as the US, but is only conducting less than 1/10th of its tests per million. This can lead people to believe that if India were to test as much as the US, its actual number of cases would be a lot more. But what this "analysis" cleverly ignores is India's population: India's population is 4x more than the US, so its absolute cases are bound to be comparatively higher. Also, India is a much poorer country than the US, so it's obvious that its number of tests will be lower. If we look at India's and US's cases number on a per million population bas...