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Fact-checker at @QuintFactCheck | @QuintFit | @TheQuint. XR story-teller. Alum: @UniWestminster & @XICMumbai. You'd know me from nowhere, I'm not famous.
Sep 22, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
#Thread | While working on a fact-checking story, I contacted the person who was the subject of the viral piece of misinformation. I asked him the questions required for the story.

Once I was done, he wanted to check if he could ask some questions. (1/n) The man was gently asked, "Brother, when will this end?"

"My family and I have stopped going out because of the viral video. We are scared," he went on to say.

I could only tell him that it would take a while before people stopped sharing. (2/n)