Post by hi224 on Aug 20, 2020 22:57:45 GMT
May 12, 2017 (Jharkhand)
Two men are beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of being child abductor.
This was the first incident of so called WhatsApp lynching in India and since then it has happened at many different places across India and roughly 50 people have lost their lives.
All incidents took place in rural villages of India where people are often illiterate or poorly educated therefore are easily deceived. The mob comprises of men, women amd even children most of whom are unemployed or work as day labours and are under the influence of alcohol during the time of attack.
What happens ?
Fake rumors of child abductions and organ harvesting are spreaded across these villages on WhatsApp. And the villagers get together to catch these culprits in huge masses. (But as we know that there are no culprits) they catch any random tourist who is passing by the village and then beat them to death.
The Indian Government does not track public lynchings and there are no official statistics from the Indian Crime Records Bureau regarding their occurrence across India.
WhatsApp offers $50,000 in funding for researchers to develop technological and social ideas that prevent the spread of fake news.
Even Indian media is not trying to show the truth and tried to give a communal angle to this lynchings.
Sources:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings
youtu.be/BCOQPUT_2c0
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/21/how-misinformation-whatsapp-led-deathly-mob-lynching-india/
www.wired.com/story/how-whatsapp-fuels-fake-news-and-violence-in-india/
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44856910
Two men are beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of being child abductor.
This was the first incident of so called WhatsApp lynching in India and since then it has happened at many different places across India and roughly 50 people have lost their lives.
All incidents took place in rural villages of India where people are often illiterate or poorly educated therefore are easily deceived. The mob comprises of men, women amd even children most of whom are unemployed or work as day labours and are under the influence of alcohol during the time of attack.
What happens ?
Fake rumors of child abductions and organ harvesting are spreaded across these villages on WhatsApp. And the villagers get together to catch these culprits in huge masses. (But as we know that there are no culprits) they catch any random tourist who is passing by the village and then beat them to death.
The Indian Government does not track public lynchings and there are no official statistics from the Indian Crime Records Bureau regarding their occurrence across India.
WhatsApp offers $50,000 in funding for researchers to develop technological and social ideas that prevent the spread of fake news.
Even Indian media is not trying to show the truth and tried to give a communal angle to this lynchings.
Sources:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings
youtu.be/BCOQPUT_2c0
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/21/how-misinformation-whatsapp-led-deathly-mob-lynching-india/
www.wired.com/story/how-whatsapp-fuels-fake-news-and-violence-in-india/
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44856910