Disclosure Of Involvement Of Indians In Sharing Misleading Videos Against Palestine | News Hub

   MUMBAI: (News Hub Update latest News. October 16, 2023) India-based fact-checking company Boom has confirmed that several verified Indian former Twitter users are part of the misleading Orphic News campaign against Palestine. According to Baum, the so-called Indian influencers are busy sharing misinformation that portrays Palestine negatively and speaks in favor of Israel. His tweets "attempted to portray the Palestinians as oppressors".

   An Indian Twitter account holder shared a video claiming that dozens of young girls have been made sex slaves by a "Palestinian" militant while visiting a school in occupied Jerusalem. The quality of the video is relatively low, but if you look closely, you can see that the girls are using their phones to communicate with each other.

   Despite this, the video received thousands of retweets and at least 6 million likes. An analysis of the accounts sharing the video revealed that most are based in India.

   Apart from this, another video is circulating on the social media website Twitter, which falsely claims that Hamas is kidnapping a Jewish child.

   Of the top 10 most shared tweets featuring the misleading video, 7 were from profiles based in India. These 7 tweets alone received over 3 million impressions on Twitter, while the video was from September and had nothing to do with the kidnapping or indeed Gaza.

   Many of the accounts sharing these fake videos are spending most of their time posting anti-Muslim comments on X(Twitter). A Twitter account holder, Mr. Sinha, who shared a fake video of a boy being beheaded by Hamas, added the hashtag #IslamIsTheProblem to the same post. 

    Another Twitter account shared the video and wrote, “The one difference is when Muslim girls convert to Hinduism, they live happily ever after. But when Hindu girls convert to Islam, they end up in a suitcase and a fridge.