‘Ban micro-targeting’: Bill Gates on social media fanning extreme opinions

With fake news emerging as a major challenge on social media, Wipro's Rishad Premji picked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' brain about how to counter the menace. Gates and Premji were in a conversation at the inaugural edition of Mint Visionaries. The billionaire philanthropist said that he believes that banning micro-targeting on social media sites could be a way of preventing extreme opinions from getting propagated.