IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 31

IPMAT Indore 2025 previous year question on RC Detail and Fact Based Questions, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.

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Meta is recalibrating content on its social media platforms as the political tide has turned in Washington, with Mark Zuckerberg announcing last week that his company plans to fire its US fact-checkers. Fact-checking evolved in response to allegations of misinformation and is being watered down in response to accusations of censorship. Social media does not have solutions to either. Community review — introduced by Elon Musk at X and planned by Zuckerberg for Facebook and Instagram — is not a significant improvement over fact-checking. Having Washington lean on foreign governments over content moderation does not benefit free speech. Yet, that is the nature of the social media beast, designed to amplify bias.

Information and misinformation continue to jostle on social media at the mercy of user discretion. Social media now has enough control over all other forms of media to broaden its reach. It is the connective tissue for mass consumption of entertainment, and alternative platforms are reworking their engagement with social media. Technologies are shaping up to drive this advantage further through synthetic content targeted precisely at its intended audience. Meta's algorithm will now play up politics because it is the flavour of the season.

The Achilles' Heel of social media is informed choice which could turn against misinformation. Its move away from content moderation is driven by the need to be more inclusive, yet unfiltered content can push users away from social media towards legacy forms that have better moderation systems in place. Lawmakers across the world are unlikely to give social media a free run, even if Donald Trump is working on their case. Protections have already been put in place across jurisdictions over misinformation. These may be difficult to dismantle, even if the Republicans pull US-owned social media companies further to the right. Media consumption is, in essence, evidence-based judgement that mediums must adapt to. Content moderation, not free speech, is the adaptation mechanism. Musk and Zuckerberg are not exempt.

Social media has succeeded in

A
controlling other media that depend on it.
B
finding alternative means for fact-checking.
C
becoming independent of other media.
D
ignoring technology and artificial content.

Pick an option, then check.

Answer & solution

Answer: Option A

Line in the passage

Para 2, opening — social media now has enough control over all other forms of media to broaden its reach; alternative platforms are reworking their engagement with it.

How to reach it, step by step

Step 1. Read the stem as 'what has it actually achieved?' — so look for a line of achievement, not of risk or prediction.

Step 2. Paragraph 2 opens with exactly that: it now holds enough control over every other form of media to widen its own reach.

Step 3. The next line adds that other platforms are redesigning their engagement with it — that is the dependence half of option (a).

Step 4. Control + dependence of other media = option (a), word for word in sense.

Why the other three fall

(b) The passage says community review is not a significant improvement over fact-checking, i.e. no real alternative has been found.

(c) The opposite of (a). If other media depend on social media, the two are interlocked, not independent. Also the passage says social media is the connective tissue — tissue connects, it does not stand apart.

(d) Technology and synthetic content are presented as tools social media is embracing, not ignoring.

IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 31

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