![]() ![]() However, on 30 March, multiple fact-checking organisations noticed a sudden surge in Islamophobic fake news on social media.įrom 8 to 15 March, more than two thousand devotees met in Nizamuddin for a conference organised by the Tablighi Jamaat-a Muslim revivalist organisation. ![]() Dubbudu said that a majority of fake content related to COVID-19 did not have a religious tone until recently. Most messages on platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook surrounding the virus tended to be false-cures, or “expert tips,” on how to avoid the pandemic. “Ever since the Nizamuddin incident is in the public domain, there is a surge in fake content targeting the Muslim community,” Rakesh Dubbudu, the founder of the fact checking website Factly, said.įrom mid-March, Indian social media reported seeing a consistent uptick in verifiably false message about COVID-19. Fact checkers said that despite each of the posts on social media being easy to disprove, the sheer quantity of false-information shared made it tough for them to flag all cases of disinformation. Many video clips shared on Facebook and WhatsApp purportedly showed Muslims actively working to spread the virus in India. Since 30 March, when news broke that six attendees at the Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic religious gathering in Delhi’s Nizamuddin locality, had died of COVID-19, fact-checking websites have reported a barrage of fake-news targeting Muslims for the pandemic.
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