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Thread on the unparalleled lies and shamelessness of OpIndia.

Yesterday, @AltNewsHindi showed how OpIndia fabricated a false story about a boy being sacrificed at a mosque in Gopalganj, Bihar. 1/7

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In our article, along with copies of post mortem, police statements and statements of villagers, we stated that OpIndia had taken the muddled thoughts of a grieving father desperately looking for answers, and converted it into a story without any investigation into the matter.2/7
After our piece was published, OpIndia published a counter-piece, claiming that we were labeling the father as a liar. We never made any judgement on the father, and maintained that he was grieving, and looking for answers. OpIndia lied in their defence, but that's expected. 3/7
Because of OpIndia's lies, Bihar's DGP had to spend a considerable time in this village to investigate the matter He did a Facebook live today, and without naming OpIndia, he clarified that all the claims about 'sacrifice' were pure lies.

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Now, OpIndia has published an update and shifted all the blame to the grieving father. First they exploited a grieving father for their propaganda, and when their propaganda got exposed, they are now targeting the father. 5/7
OpIndia's Hindi editor @ajeetbharti put out a video in which he repeatedly labeled the father as a 'liar'. Watch this 44 seconds clip to see the number of times the grieving father has been targeted by OpIndia.

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OpIndia's lies were all over WhatsApp which is why the top most cop of the state, the DGP, had to personally intervene. This is at a time when the whole country is battling a pandemic and police is an integral part of this. Can there be a bigger disservice to the nation?

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The English version of the @AltNews article exposing OpIndia's lies can be read here:

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Thread: Ever since it has been revealed that the congregation at Nizamuddin markaz has led to a spurt of COVID +ve cases, the right-wing has used this opportunity to inject innumerable number of videos with the false claim that these are Muslims trying to spread coronavirus.

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Some of the videos are recent (but before the mass breakout of coronavirus in India), while most are fairly old (pre-2019), and some are not even from India. These videos have been used as part of a systematic campaign to delegitimize the Muslim community.

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Misinformation deepen one's biases and has real life consequences for people. We are already seeing reports of attacks and discrimination against Muslims from different parts of India. The attacks are very often concentrated on members of the lower economic strata.

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Twitter is suspending 70 accounts on charge of platform manipulation with identical messages, images being posted to prop up Bloomberg's presidential candidacy.

This practice was heralded by BJP in India with even Union Ministers joining the act yet no action against them.

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Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have been consistently hypocritical in terms of their policies. As if people living in developing countries are lesser beings and their manipulation through social media doesn't matter.

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Currently, propaganda+misinformation is belted out by multiple accounts controlled by various Indian political parties, with identical behavior as mentioned in the above article, but Twitter won't consider it as platform manipulation.

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Young student leaders need to be a lot more self-aware about the words they use, the statements they make. Social Media is a cruel place, and even the slightest of goof-ups can lead to a viral video, prime time discussions, and sometimes even a criminal case.

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To be a politician/public speaker/anchor in this day and age, one needs to have the skills of imagining how a speech of theirs can be clipped, twisted, distorted to portray something that they never said.

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So many of the cases we debunk in @AltNews are along the lines of how speeches have been clipped/distorted to remove context and circulated in order to defame individuals.

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