People often tend to spread misleading and fake news much more than real information, due to the power of misinformation to evoke emotions of fear and/or shock amongst readers and followers; additionally,it sometimes increases interaction and traffic on social media. These conclusions were asserted by a study conducted by three researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018. For example, they found that it takes factual stories about six times as long to reach 1,500 people as it does for false stories to reach the same number. Such insights highlight the need to understand the ecosystem of communication over the internet. Misleading information and false stories find hotbeds in easily accessible social media to spread via a great many means such as tablets and smartphones with almost negligible costs and control. This session helps us explore and understand the effort exerted by social media, governments, and organizations in combating misinformation, shedding light on how misinformation is often used to infringe on digital rights, especially rights of expression and opinion.