While the ongoing monsoon session, Rahul Gandhi’s return to the house after his disqualification was lifted, and release of Rajinikanth’s Jailer amassed massive social media tractions, the Haryana violence continued to dictate social media trends, with multiple instances of misinformation around the Nuh violence.
From a YouTube news report falsely claiming that many women participants of the Jal Abhishek yatra were abducted and raped, to an old video of a girl lamenting the loss of her home being linked to the Haryana government’s bulldozer drive, here are the top fact checks from the week:
‘No One Was Raped During Nuh Violence’: Bittu Bajrangi Clarifies Amid Claims Of Hindu Women Being Raped
A week after violence broke out in Haryana’s Nuh over a Jal Abhishek yatra by members of the Bajrang Dal, a YouTube news report is going viral on social media, where ‘locals’ interviewed by a social media based news channel are claiming that many women participants of the yatra were taken away into the fields and that they were raped. However, Newschecker found the allegations to be false. Read more here.
Video Of Special Pilgrimage Train From Hyderabad to Karnataka Goes Viral With Communal Spin
Several social media users are circulating a video of what appears to be a decked-up Indian Railways passenger train with communally charged claims, which mainly state that it is a Muslims-only train running from Hyderabad to Howrah, West Bengal. Newschecker found that a video of a special...
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