Kolkata: Cops in Bengal have deleted more than 500 fake posts of “post-poll violence in Bengal” and “Hindu genocide in Bengal” in the last 96 hours bu.
KOLKATA: Bengal police have got more than 500 fake posts deleted from social media of “post-poll violence in Bengal” and “Hindu genocide in Bengal” in the last 96 hours but the numbers are just one indicator of the enormity of the problem. Among images sought to be passed off as “Bengal violence images” are old photos from Brazil, Venezuela and Bangladesh.
On Sunday, the Bengal CID tweeted a video link where a verified user Chaudhary Amit Singh claimed a man was beaten and assaulted with sticks and stones. The video had originated from Brazil, and is at least three years old, the CID said. Also, a 2018 video from Venezuela has been shared on social media as a political worker being lynched in Bengal in post-poll violence by “TMC goons”. Kolkata police has flagged a Bangladeshi video that was being passed off as an attack on a polling agent in Bengal. After this, half a dozen videos have surfaced with morphed images from incidents which took place in Bangladesh,