On the morning of 27 April, my Facebook newsfeed was awash with a doctored image of The Times of India (TOI) headline – ‘Modi, Xi to mate 6 times in 24 hours.’ In an age where people wake up to WhatsApp and Facebook notifications before their morning newspapers, the doctored headline immediately went viral – eliciting ROFL emojis, adult jokes, and faux concern for the ‘poor’ desk editor who misspelt ‘meet’ as ‘mate’.