With the increase in our pace of life, everything has become quicker, easier and shorter. From the media, we consume – Instagram reels and TikTok – to the rising popularity of sitcom television to even our news. And in this new landscape, Inshorts is undoubtedly the master of the short-form news.
Inshorts is an app free to download on both apple and play store for keeping up with the news. It offers a wide array of variations in the genre of news one can read from politics to current affairs to celebrity gossip. In this manner, it covers all its bases and includes all consumer groups in its one-of-a-kind method of reporting news.
Inshorts uniqueness is the brevity in which it offers its content. Most Inshorts articles are nearly 300-400 words in length. Further, most news gained from Inshorts can be accessed without even opening the app as it offers alerts any time a news update related to your interests pops up. In this manner, Inshorts is the ideal app for the busy thronging millions of its consumers who need news on the go.
Unfortunately, such an approach to news comes with some downsides. For starters, no in-depth knowledge can be gained about any topic in a mere 300-400 words. This means that the average Inshorts article will only offer basic information about any subject.
This becomes even more contentious when we look at the chances of misreporting and the reporting of contested information — something quite prominent in politics. In the political domain, there is little surety that information is true as it is reported, what with the ongoing polarization across the world. This makes Inshorts an iffy source to rely on for political going-on.
The problems don’t end here, however. You see, to make media palatable when so much demands our attention, click-baiting headlines are a common trend. This is as true for Youtube as it is for Inshorts. The average Inshorts pop up then is often a completely misrepresenting clickbait-ey title used to garner eyeballs not to spread information.
This complete disregard for accuracy in reporting is nothing other than bolstering the spread of disinformation. Seen in this way, Inshorts can be seen as irresponsible at best and malicious at worst. Considering the polarised media climate we live in, it absolutely must be seen as a threat.
Inshorts then is really a learning opportunity to always re-evaluate and reassess the things we read on the internet. Very often things are not as they seem and it would be wise of us to keep track of the repeat offenders who spread disinformation. Make no mistake, Inshorts is one of them.
