LONDON - Rumour had it that a Muslim girl had been kidnapped and a Hindu temple had sent masked thugs into combat. Add in local fury over an India-Pakistan cricket match, and Hindu and Muslim men were soon fighting on the streets of central England.
"I've seen quite a selection of the social media stuff which is very, very, very distorting now and some of it just completely lying about what had been happening between different communities," Peter Soulsby, Leicester's mayor, told BBC radio. Some 80 per cent of tweets with geographic coordinates, or geo-tagged information, were connected to India, Logically said.
Green Lane Road, an area with a large Muslim population and the scene of an unannounced march by hundreds of Hindu men, in Leicester, England. PHOTO: NYTIMES "Hindu nationalism is one of the largest disinformation networks in the global South Asian diaspora, with bigoted and often terrifying attacks against caste and religious minorities," said Thenmozhi Soundararajan of Equality Labs.
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