Padlocked Grave Story Confirms Yet Again India's Status as the Hub of Fake News

[RiazHaq]

Padlocked Grave Story Confirms Yet Again India's Status as the Hub of Fake News

The story of the padlocked grave has gone viral, thanks to the mainstream Indian news media ranging from the Times of India to NDTV. The st...

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The story of padlocked grave has gone viral, thanks to the mainstream Indian news media ranging from the Times of India to NDTV. The story links the image of a padlocked grave to rising necrophilia cases in Pakistan, with the claim that the image is an example of how parents lock their daughters’ graves in Pakistan in order to prevent rape. Alt News, a fact-check site run by Mohammed Zubair and Pratik Sinha, has found that the grave is in fact located in the Indian city of Hyderabad.

Fake News in Indian Mainstream Media. Source: Alt News

Indian news agency ANI Digital tweeted the image of the green padlocked grave with the claim. In its article titled ‘Pakistani parents lock daughters’ graves to avoid rape’, it cited a Daily Times article to report that parents in Pakistan protected their dead daughters against rape by putting padlocks on their graves. None made any attempt to verify it.

Padlocked Grave Fake News Made Top Google Search Results For Pakistan on April 30, 2023

The media are no longer credible and independent. Instead of going after the Indian media for spreading fake news, the Indian government is cracking down on fact-checkers like Mohammad Zubair. Last year, Zubair was arrested and jailed for months for exposing fake news published in the Indian media. “People in power want to shut me up for exposing their propaganda, their lies and their hate campaigns,” ,said in an interview with the New York Times. “They want to scare other journalists and activists by targeting me.”
Here's a fact check on the padlocked grave location in India, not in Pakistan:

In 2018, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-hand man and home minister Amit Shah told his party's volunteers commonly known as Modi Bhakts: "We can keep making messages go viral, whether they are real or fake, sweet or sour". "Keep making messages go viral. We have already made a WhatsApp group with 32 lakh people in Uttar Pradesh; every morning they are sent a message at 8 am", Shah added, according to a report in Dainik Bhaskar, an Indian Hindi-language daily newspaper.

Indian Fake News Peddlers Rahul Kanwal (L) and Arnab Goswami

Amit Shah's advice has been heeded by not only BJP trolls but also many in the Indian mainstream media, including Times of India, NDTV, India Today and Republic TV.
After the 2019 aerial battle between Indian Air Force and Pakistan Air Force over Kashmir, India government and media claimed shooting down a Pakistani F-16. India Today TV anchor Rahul Kanwal invited Abhijit Aiyar Mitra, an Indian aviation expert, to confirm that the wreckage he was showing as evidence was that of a Pakistani F-16.
Mr. Mitra embarrassed his host on live TV by debunking the claim and correctly stating that Pakistani F-16s are equipped with Pratt and Whitney engines and what the TV host was calling a Pakistani F-16 engine was made by a different manufacturer. Watch it here:

In a recent airing of 'The Debate' on Republic World TV, host Arnab Goswami invited Indian analyst General G.D. Bakshi and PTI spokesperson Abdul Samad Yaqoob — to represent Pakistan.

Goswami to Yaqoob: "You go and check today ... on the fifth floor of the Serena Hotel, I am telling you, please check, fifth floor of the Serena Hotel in Kabul, how many Pakistani army officers are there?"

Yaqoob: " "What I got to know from my sources [is that] Serena has only two floors. There are no third, fourth or fifth floors." Watch it here:

India with its massive disinformation campaign against Pakistan, as recently revealed by EU Disinfo Lab, appears to be following what a US think tank RAND calls "Firehose of Falsehood" propaganda model. It has over 750 fake media outlets covering 119 countries. There are over 750 domain names, some in the name of dead people and others using stolen identities. Pakistani policymakers charged with countering the Indian propaganda should read the RAND report "Firehose of Falsehoods" for its 5 specific recommendations to the US government to effectively respond to the Russian disinformation campaign. In particular they should heed its key advice: "All other things being equal, messages received in greater volume and from more sources will be more persuasive.......Don't expect to counter Russia's firehose of falsehood with the squirt gun of truth. Instead, put raincoats on those at whom the firehose is aimed"
Related Links:

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South Asia Investor Review

India's Firehose of Falsehood

East Pakistan "Genocide" Headline

Ex Indian Spy On RAW's Successes Against Pakistan

Fact Checkers Destroy Indian Media Credibility

Social Media Tribalism

Social Media: Blessing or Curse For Pakistan?

Planted Stories in Media

Indian BJP Troll Farm

Kulbhushan Jadhav Caught in Balochistan

The Story of Pakistan's M8 Motorway

Pakistan-China-Russia vs India-Japan-US

Riaz Haq's Youtube Channel

PakAlumni Social Network

Padlocked Grave Story Confirms Yet Again India's Status as the Hub of Fake News

The story of the padlocked grave has gone viral, thanks to the mainstream Indian news media ranging from the Times of India to NDTV. The st...

www.southasiainvestor.com

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@RiazHaq

Brofessor sb,

Mercifully you are there to call India's bluff

Regards

 

[xeuss]

Would be nice if you mentioned the Pakistanis who first started this on Twitter. Did the Pakistani government take any action against the fake news peddlers?

 

[Neelo]

All this hoopla about India’s fake news…..if it’s fake news, then it shouldn’t be hard to debunk.

Simply crying about it won’t counter it. You need to dismiss it…does fact checking even exist among Pakistan’s ”TV ANCHORS” pretending to be journalists?

I see better debunking done by Pakistani Reddit users than our journalists.

There is no excuse to not counter this….all you have to do is literally COPY AND PASTE THE INDIAN ARTICLE TITLE…write FAKE NEWS….and then explain why its fake news….

Using photos, videos etc.

Not hard.

 

[El Sidd]

Indians are not humans.

 

[Pak_Sher]

Padlocked Grave Story Confirms Yet Again India's Status as the Hub of Fake News

The story of the padlocked grave has gone viral, thanks to the mainstream Indian news media ranging from the Times of India to NDTV. The st...

www.southasiainvestor.com

The story of padlocked grave has gone viral, thanks to the mainstream Indian news media ranging from the Times of India to NDTV. The story links the image of a padlocked grave to rising necrophilia cases in Pakistan, with the claim that the image is an example of how parents lock their daughters’ graves in Pakistan in order to prevent rape. Alt News, a fact-check site run by Mohammed Zubair and Pratik Sinha, has found that the grave is in fact located in the Indian city of Hyderabad.

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Fake News in Indian Mainstream Media. Source: Alt News

Indian news agency ANI Digital tweeted the image of the green padlocked grave with the claim. In its article titled ‘Pakistani parents lock daughters’ graves to avoid rape’, it cited a Daily Times article to report that parents in Pakistan protected their dead daughters against rape by putting padlocks on their graves. None made any attempt to verify it.

​

Padlocked Grave Fake News Made Top Google Search Results For Pakistan on April 30, 2023

The media are no longer credible and independent. Instead of going after the Indian media for spreading fake news, the Indian government is cracking down on fact-checkers like Mohammad Zubair. Last year, Zubair was arrested and jailed for months for exposing fake news published in the Indian media. “People in power want to shut me up for exposing their propaganda, their lies and their hate campaigns,” ,said in an interview with the New York Times. “They want to scare other journalists and activists by targeting me.”
Here's a fact check on the padlocked grave location in India, not in Pakistan:

In 2018, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-hand man and home minister Amit Shah told his party's volunteers commonly known as Modi Bhakts: "We can keep making messages go viral, whether they are real or fake, sweet or sour". "Keep making messages go viral. We have already made a WhatsApp group with 32 lakh people in Uttar Pradesh; every morning they are sent a message at 8 am", Shah added, according to a report in Dainik Bhaskar, an Indian Hindi-language daily newspaper.

​

Indian Fake News Peddlers Rahul Kanwal (L) and Arnab Goswami

Amit Shah's advice has been heeded by not only BJP trolls but also many in the Indian mainstream media, including Times of India, NDTV, India Today and Republic TV.
After the 2019 aerial battle between Indian Air Force and Pakistan Air Force over Kashmir, India government and media claimed shooting down a Pakistani F-16. India Today TV anchor Rahul Kanwal invited Abhijit Aiyar Mitra, an Indian aviation expert, to confirm that the wreckage he was showing as evidence was that of a Pakistani F-16.
Mr. Mitra embarrassed his host on live TV by debunking the claim and correctly stating that Pakistani F-16s are equipped with Pratt and Whitney engines and what the TV host was calling a Pakistani F-16 engine was made by a different manufacturer. Watch it here:

In a recent airing of 'The Debate' on Republic World TV, host Arnab Goswami invited Indian analyst General G.D. Bakshi and PTI spokesperson Abdul Samad Yaqoob — to represent Pakistan.

Goswami to Yaqoob: "You go and check today ... on the fifth floor of the Serena Hotel, I am telling you, please check, fifth floor of the Serena Hotel in Kabul, how many Pakistani army officers are there?"

Yaqoob: " "What I got to know from my sources [is that] Serena has only two floors. There are no third, fourth or fifth floors." Watch it here:

India with its massive disinformation campaign against Pakistan, as recently revealed by EU Disinfo Lab, appears to be following what a US think tank RAND calls "Firehose of Falsehood" propaganda model. It has over 750 fake media outlets covering 119 countries. There are over 750 domain names, some in the name of dead people and others using stolen identities. Pakistani policymakers charged with countering the Indian propaganda should read the RAND report "Firehose of Falsehoods" for its 5 specific recommendations to the US government to effectively respond to the Russian disinformation campaign. In particular they should heed its key advice: "All other things being equal, messages received in greater volume and from more sources will be more persuasive.......Don't expect to counter Russia's firehose of falsehood with the squirt gun of truth. Instead, put raincoats on those at whom the firehose is aimed"
Related Links:

Haq's Musings

South Asia Investor Review

India's Firehose of Falsehood

East Pakistan "Genocide" Headline

Ex Indian Spy On RAW's Successes Against Pakistan

Fact Checkers Destroy Indian Media Credibility

Social Media Tribalism

Social Media: Blessing or Curse For Pakistan?

Planted Stories in Media

Indian BJP Troll Farm

Kulbhushan Jadhav Caught in Balochistan

The Story of Pakistan's M8 Motorway

Pakistan-China-Russia vs India-Japan-US

Riaz Haq's Youtube Channel

PakAlumni Social Network

Padlocked Grave Story Confirms Yet Again India's Status as the Hub of Fake News

The story of the padlocked grave has gone viral, thanks to the mainstream Indian news media ranging from the Times of India to NDTV. The st...

www.southasiainvestor.com

It is the sane Indians who during operation swift retort were upset with YouTube by not removing videos of Indian IAF hardware crashes and Abinandan getting beat up by locals. After getting the videos removed they start faking that F16 was shot. An F16 whose coverage could not be produced by ISRO or any Indian Satellite

 

[Mad Scientist 2.0]

Would be nice if you mentioned the Pakistanis who first started this on Twitter. Did the Pakistani government take any action against the fake news peddlers?

Yup that is the take. It was Pakistanis themselves to blame for the news.

 

[Imran Khan]

Would be nice if you mentioned the Pakistanis who first started this on Twitter. Did the Pakistani government take any action against the fake news peddlers?

he is in canada

Yup that is the take. It was Pakistanis themselves to blame for the news.

and how so ?

 

[Maula Jatt]

he is in canada


and how so ?

I don't understand some of these atheists, sure hate Islam all you want but when you spread shit like that, you are disrespecting your people

they can't differentiate between hating a religion or an ideology vs going against the "interests" of "your people"

 

[renhai]

give an example

made in India "Super Joke 2020"...

"Super Joke 2020" look，List of 108 PLA soldiers killed: 及时雨 宋江. 玉麒麟 卢俊义. 智多星 吴用. 入云龙 公孙胜. 大刀 关胜. 豹子头 林冲. 霹雳火 秦明. 双鞭 呼延灼.小李广 花荣. 小旋风 柴进. 扑天雕 李应... Here explain one thing: 及时雨 宋江. Only 宋江 is the name. 及时雨 just a nickname. OMG！WTF！！！！！！ :rofl::rofl::rofl: so... Why is it "Super Joke 2020"...

defence.pk

 

[Mad Scientist 2.0]

he is in canada


and how so ?

Because pakistani liberals started the trend and no one from Pakistan countered them. Later when it was found to be wrong rather than apologizing they started doing mudsliging .

 

[Imran Khan]

Because pakistani liberals started the trend and no one from Pakistan countered them. Later when it was found to be wrong rather than apologizing they started doing mudsliging .

as i know it was started from canada and pakistan can not do anything

 

[Mad Scientist 2.0]

as i know it was started from canada and pakistan can not do anything

Many of the twitter handles were pakistani . After a backlash many handlers deleted the tweets

 

[Areesh]

Would be nice if you mentioned the Pakistanis who first started this on Twitter. Did the Pakistani government take any action against the fake news peddlers?

Pakistani liberals/feminists/leftists are mostly haramzadai

We always knew it. Now Indian Muslims know it too

 

[hatehs]

Yup that is the take. It was Pakistanis themselves to blame for the news.

Pakistanis are to blame for professional Indian news organizations not using any form of fact checking when it comes to Muslims. Pajeet logic!

By the way, the only reason they started running the story was because ex-Muslims started posting the story, not Pakistanis. The way pajeets will accept anything ex-Muslims say as gospel truth, I have no doubt in 50 years they will put them on top of Bamans as the new priestly class in Hinduism and erect massive temples to worship Tarek Fatah's lingam and Taslima Nasreen's yoni.