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On that fateful first day, scammers posing as officials from India’s telecom regulator called Lucknow-based Dr Tandon, claiming her number would be disconnected due to “22 complaints” of harassing messages sent from it.

After the recent all-consuming election in the US, "people really need to disconnect from everything and have a bit of fun", he adds.

In some cases, it's people who are busy and disconnected, making them vulnerable to the pressures to give up real news in favor of an easily accessed and more pleasant diet of social media garbage.

“If I pushed her, I felt she would disconnect. She just kept saying she was fine.”

“There is a disconnect between policymakers and real people,” he said.