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IMHO, you mentioned "There is no rational reason to queue up at banks now." So I replied to you by sharing news articles about people facing challenges on the

IMHO, you mentioned "There is no rational reason to queue up at banks now." So I replied to you by sharing news articles about people facing challenges on the ground level. Then you mentioned "People and ground level probably also believe there's a GPS Chip in those 2000 rupee notes and that 10 rupee coins are all fake." So I replied by sharing articles of mainstream journalists sharing misinformation, and I also shared how these journalists are actually sharing content forwarded by Modi Government. I don't know how you got this impression: "The Financial Times is acting at the behest of the BJP is an interesting take." I have never tried to imply that FT is doing anything wrong here. FT is simply reporting on what Indian Government did.

unmole 3y ago
> So I replied to you by sharing news articles about people facing challenges on the ground level. The articles you posted suggested most places are accepting 2000 rupee notes. The vendors refusing to accept them are misinformed. The breathless coverage of what is a routine exercise is at least partly to blame for the uncertainty and confusion. People believe in nonsense for all kinds of reasons including the government feeding them lies. But that is hardly the only source of misinformation. Nobody benefits from the fake 10 rupee coin story or the misunderstanding of what the current exercise entails. The comment I replied to suggested that this particular story was being deliberately hyped by media outlets in collusion with the government.