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How Bengali Nationalists Are Stalking Hindi Speakers

January 05, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

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A Bengali nationalist group, Bangla Pokkho has ‘Hindi imperialism’ as its declared enemy. Preventing West Bengal’s transformation into ‘East Bihar’ or ‘East Jharkhand’, freeing Bengal from the ‘economic exploitation’ by ‘outsiders’, ensuring reservation in jobs in West Bengal for only those domiciled in the state are among their main demands. And this has turned them into a vigilante group. Read on.

❌ Media Got it Wrong

🔖 Through elections in 2023, Israel-Palestine war, violent riots in Manipur and the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup; one thing that remained common was: Indian media misreporting news about the same.

BOOM’s Hazel Gandhi & Nivedita Niranjankumar list out the details of how the media misreported and shared false news.

In 2023, out of the 77 fact checks, 62 were published by mainstream media through their own bylines.
The remaining 15 are stories misreported by wire agencies and published by newsrooms as part of their syndicated feed.
In this, the three top spots were occupied by the News18 website: News18 and its regional language outlets (21 instances), Times Now (18 instances) and Zee News (14 instances).
Asian News International (ANI) remained the top wire agency in the media misreporting list with 8 instances of false news reported by them. The other wire agency in the list was the Press Trust of India (PTI) with 4 misreported stories.

A Group Of Bengali Nationalists Are Humiliating Hindi Speakers For Their Social Media Posts

🔖 On 4 March 2020, Somanth Singh, a resident of Fatakgora area in Chandannagar town, about 40 km north of Kolkata, found some uninvited guests at his door. A group of 10 odd activists of Bangla Pokkho, which describes itself as the ‘national organisation of Bengalis in India’ had reached Singh’s house to teach him a lesson.

Read more about it in Snigdhendu Bhattacharya’s story.

How Scammers Target Flipkart Customers Through WhatsApp Screen Share

🔖 Bad actors are now exploiting WhatsApp screen share feature to gain real-time access to users' screens, jeopardise their personal data and financial security. What is WhatsApp screen share? Find out in Hera Rizwan’s article.

IIT-BHU Gang Rape Case: Accused's Social Media Reveals BJP Affiliation

🔖 Three men, namely Kunal Pandey, Saksham Patel, and Anand Chauhan, were arrested by the police on Sunday, 31 December 2023 in connection with the alleged gang rape of a female student inside the IIT-BHU campus in Uttar Pradesh, two months ago.

What do we know about the three accused? What are the charges against the accused? Find out in Hera Rizwan’s article.

🚫 Fake News You Almost Fell For

🔍 A viral photo purporting to show former United States President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein photographed together on a private jet decades ago is viral online. But, is it real? Find out in 🔗 Hazel Gandhi’s ↗️ fact-check.

🔍 A video showing two men beating a minor in Haryana went viral with false claims that the latter, a Dalit, was beaten for showering flowers on a Brahmin man during a function related to Ayodhya's Ram Mandir. Read 🔗 Rohit Kumar’s ↗️ fact-check.

🔍 An old video showing three people being swept away by a tidal wave was shared with the false claim that the video is from Japan's recent earthquake. 🔗 Hazel Gandhi ↗️ debunked the claim

🅱️ Recommends

📖 This week's recommendation is: Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents

In this paper, the researchers find that the psychological factors underlying the misinformation challenge are broadly similar across different regions. Hence, similar solutions may largely be effective.

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