“It helps them that a significant part of the population believes in that shit.” An Indian past colleague of mine who is highly educated with a PhD in CS from

“It helps them that a significant part of the population believes in that shit.” An Indian past colleague of mine who is highly educated with a PhD in CS from a western country truly believed in the conspiracy theory that Indian gods were aliens and space travel was common during those days. It was horrifying to know that such highly educated scientist believed in such unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. The amount of misinformation that spreads in India because of WhatsApp is truly scary and people believe it because “it was on WhatsApp”