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Media coverage over the killings and efforts to debunk fake news have also been concentrated in the English and Hindi language media, with little attention given to local language reporting. [4] On 4 July 2018 – WhatsApp offered $50,000 in funding for researchers to develop technological and social ideas that prevent the spread of fake news. [5]
The driver was transporting carcasses of dead cattle to disposal plant in Chhajarsi village but the cow vigilantes were spreading fake news about cow slaughter to the crowd which created ruckus. [65] 23 September 2019 Khunti, Jharkhand: 1 2 Three tribal men were beaten by Bajrang dal people on the suspicion of selling beef in Khunti.
2020 Palghar mob lynching Gadchinchale Gadchinchale (Maharashtra) Location Gadchinchale, Palghar District, Maharashtra, India Coordinates 20°05′04″N 73°03′40″E / 20.0843517°N 73.0611882°E / 20.0843517; 73.0611882 Date 16 April 2020 Attack type lynching Weapons stones, axes, sticks Deaths 3 Accused 115 villagers, 9 juveniles On 16 April 2020, a vigilante group lynched ...
Fake news isn't just an American problem, or a political problem, or a Facebook problem or a Twitter problem. Yesterday, the Washington Post reports five people were killed in a lynching in India ...
On night of 14 October 2021, a dalit Sikh labourer, Lakhbir Singh from Cheema Khurd village of Tarn Taran district was lynched by Nihang Sikhs present at farmers' protest site on the allegations of sacrilege [12] by his picking up the copy of a Sarbloh Granth.
The 2015 Dadri lynching refers to case of lynching in which a mob of villagers attacked the home of 52 year-old Mohammed Akhlaq, killing him, for suspicion of slaughtering a cow. [1] The attack took place at night, on 28 September 2015 in Bisahda village , near Dadri in Uttar Pradesh , India.
The 2021 lynchings in Punjab, India [1] refers to the widely reported lynching incidents that occurred between December 18-19, 2021, at two Sikh temples in Punjab, India in which enraged mobs killed 2 men in response to alleged acts of sacrilege.
On 17 June 2019, 24-year-old Tabrez Ansari was attacked by a lynch mob in Jharkhand, India. Ansari, a Muslim, was tied to a tree, brutally beaten and forced to chant Hindu religious slogans. [1] He died four days later. [2] The incident came to light after a video of the lynching went viral. [3] The attackers accused him of bike theft. [1]