How Alt News is trying to take on the fake news ecosystem in India. Theres one fake news video that most agitates Pratik Sinha though hes seen a lot of them. In this particular piece of shaky handheld footage, that Sinha has deconstructed online, a young girl is bloodied and being beaten as an angry mob closes in on her. The frame needs to be rotated, but its pretty clear that a lynching is under way. Its been in circulation for a couple of years and those forwarding it would have you believe this is a Hindu Marwari girl being beaten by Muslim men in Andhra Pradesh. The accompanying explanation claims the girl refused to wear a burqa after marrying a Muslim man and thereafter met a grisly end. Sinha repeats the line that goes with the video in Hindi, from memory. All group members are requested that this video should be shared so extensively via Whats. App that the video reaches Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi so that he can take some instant action regarding this issue and todays the day when Whats. App needs to be used effectively for this purpose, reads the forward. But no matter how many times it gets forwarded, it wont change the fact that this is a two year old video of a mob attacking a 1. Guatemalan village following her suspected involvement in a murder.
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