fake jamath

Type

Parody Twitter account

Creator

Dave Goldberg

Purpose

Satire of Chamath Palihapitiya

It’s open season on Covid-19 fake news. In the past few weeks, fact checkers, governments, and even the Uttar Pradesh police have called out multiple media outlets for peddling misinformation and fake news, mostly involving the Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim religious movement being blamed by sections of the media for spreading the virus in India. [...] Newslaundry Media ## Tablighi Jamaat fake news saga continues: Arunachal Pradesh government calls out Zee News for false report The media outlet falsely claimed 11 coronavirus patients in the state could be traced back to Tablighi Jamaat’s Delhi function. The state has reported just one coronavirus infection so far. Article image Article image [...] On Friday, the Arunachal Pradesh Information and Public Relations department called out Zee News for falsely reporting that the Northeastern state has 11 coronavirus patients who can be traced back to last month’s Tablighi Jamaat function in Delhi’s Nizamuddin. This is to clarify that Arunachal Pradesh has got only 1 COVID-19 positive case till date. The reporting by Zeenews is false and does not carry any authenticity. pic.twitter.com/d74hBGDWbd

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Since 30 March, when news broke that six attendees at the Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic religious gathering in Delhi’s Nizamuddin locality, had died of COVID-19, fact-checking websites have reported a barrage of fake-news targeting Muslims for the pandemic. Many video clips shared on Facebook and WhatsApp purportedly showed Muslims actively working to spread the virus in India. Fact checkers said that despite each of the posts on social media being easy to disprove, the sheer quantity of [...] Tablighi Jamaat chief. Facebook later flagged the video as fake with the help of independent fact checkers. “Since no one likely hears the ten-minute long speech, everyone believed the accompanying text and it went viral,” Dubbudu said. Mazhar Hussain, the founder of COVA, found another old video on WhatsApp shows Muslims cleaning themselves beside a water tank before namaz in large numbers. A user named Nadeem argued that the video is most likely from 2018 at the Raiwind Ijtema—a religious [...] Dubbudu told me that he had found a video on 30 March on Facebook with a ten-minute audio recording which they claimed belonged to a Muslim cleric from the Tablighi Jamaat congregation. The video was earlier aired by Republic TV. The clip was widely shared with an incorrect translation in Telugu attached which read, “Defeat lockdown and come out. If we spread this disease to 70,000 people, India will be destroyed. It will come into our control.” The statement was being attributed to the

Disinformation about Tablighi Jamat, a Muslim missionary movement, whose members had congregated in its headquarters in New Delhi in mid-March 2020, is a case in point. While the gathering had turned out to be a super spreader event, soon a video claiming that Muslims were licking utensils to spread COVID-19 went viral on social media. AltNews and other fact-checking outlets used online and offline tools to debunk the false content. [...] Fake (false) news - A piece of information designed to mislead the public to the benefit of certain groups or individuals. ### term-hoax Hoax - A piece of information intended to deceive people. ### term-malinformation Malinformation - First Draft defines it as “deliberate publication of private information for personal or corporate rather than public interest, such as revenge porn.” It can also refer to “deliberate change of context, date or time of genuine content.” [...] At South Asia Check, we label our findings as fake, false, misleading, exaggeration or lies. But according to Patel, AltNews has a spectrum of fact-check ratings including: hard to categorize, false, mostly false, half true, mostly true and true. “Moreover, quality fact-checkers ensure that the text of the fact-check captures the nuance that the reader needs to be aware of,” he says.