Four days after the attack, publishes a variety of indian media is a picture that is claimed to be the suspected terrorist, Abdul Rashid Ghazi. The picture shows a man in what looks to be headgear.
Later the same day, was the site Boom Live, which examines the false and misleading assertion, show that the image was false. The fact was that there on the internet, there was a large amount of pictures – one of which depicted the singer Jon Bon Jovi – with the same body but with a different head. Later it was the site Scroll.show that the image was most likely created with the help of the mobile application ”Police suit photo frame maker”.
and claims that was widely distributed on the indian social media after the attack that killed more than 40 soldiers. Less than 24 hours after självmordsattentatet spread pictures who claimed that Rahul Gandi, the leader of the largest opposition party the indian national Congress, should have had close dealings with the offender. In some cases, it was alleged that it was the Congress party which was behind the attack. In another case allegedly Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, sister of Rahul Gandhi and a member of the Congress party’s national executive, have laughed during a press conference about the attack. At the same time began an old chain letter about donating money to the indian arm spread on the new.
in Total Boom Live been able to demonstrate at least 25 different false claims that spread in the wake of the terrorist attacks. There is nothing unusual in connection with the terrorist attacks, but in this case it was also published fake photos of the established press.
”We have faktakollat since november 2016. Never before has a single event taught us so much about the new kinds of fake images,” wrote Boom-the editor Jency Jacob on Twitter for less than a week ago.
the crowd of internet users, approaching the parliamentary elections in april, the situation is related to the spread of propaganda and false claims complicated. In several cases, the dissemination of false information to a series of clean lynchings, according to a report from the-based Factly.
the Propaganda is spread , for example via Facebook, but above all, through closed networks, including Whatsapp, which is also owned by Facebook. Whatsapp has been attempting to reduce the spread of the particularly hateful material, limiting the number of times a message can pass from 100 to five.
at the same time, proposed new laws in India which would involve, inter alia, Whatsapp would need to förhandsmoderera everything that is posted on the platform, something which in practice would mean an end for the app in India.
