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Today House of Lords has asked The UK Government to act immediately to deal with a ‘pandemic of misinformation’ that poses an existential threat to democracy and way of life. https://tinyurl.com/ya89j9er 1/n
Fake news, propaganda and misrepresentation by media has become single largest threat to world's largest democracy as well. Fake News manufacturer like OpIndia has consistently manufactured communal and islamophobic narrative in their quest for a Hindu Nation. 2/n
On a 3rd March 2017 article - based on a heresay tiny coverage of HT, OpIndia builds a conspiracy narrative of Rohingya Refugees being a terrorist threat to India - this is a classic 'immigrants are terrorist' narrative. https://tinyurl.com/yb82ejvb 3/n
Since 2017, OpIndia has published over 5k articles on Muslims, that is on average 4 articles per day. Progressively the content became more islamophobic and communal, until they could outrightly peddle lies and term Muslims of India as 'Islamist mob' https://tinyurl.com/vwd2gnp 4/n
@AltNews, @NewsLaundry and other organisations have regularly fact-checked their Islamophobic stories and misrepresentation. @AyushTiwari writes about the series of misinformation which has made the environment in India a little more hateful each day. https://tinyurl.com/ya2gvwt8 5/n
OpIndia has also started using the #BlackLivesMatter 
to push through a communal Islamophobic narrative https://tinyurl.com/y8w38zk7 6/n
to push through a communal Islamophobic narrative https://tinyurl.com/y8w38zk7 6/n
Despite their misreporting and contribution to the rise of fear and hatespeech in India the Indian Supreme Court has stayed the FIR against the OpIndia director @mbachelet @UNHumanrights
Perhaps sitting on a bike is more important than #StandUp4HumanRights 7/n
Perhaps sitting on a bike is more important than #StandUp4HumanRights 7/n
UN guidelines clearly spell out that “all incitement to discrimination… is hate speech” and call on state institutions to “stop financing online and offline media” that engage in such incitement:
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/publications-and-resources/Plan_of_Action_Religious-rev5.pdf
@UN @antonioguterres @DicarloRosemary n/n
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/publications-and-resources/Plan_of_Action_Religious-rev5.pdf
@UN @antonioguterres @DicarloRosemary n/n
