Home / News / Postcard News spreads fake news about a Jain sage attacked by Muslim youth20TH MARCH 2018 / 12:55 AM / LAST UPDATED: 20TH MARCH 2018
Postcard News spreads fake news about a Jain sage attacked by Muslim youth
“Very sad news, yesterday in Karantaka Jain muni attacked by muslim youth …. No one is safe in Siddaramaiah’s Karnataka.”. When news like this starts going viral on social media, you know that elections are round the corner and the usual suspects are rolling out their polarization strategy.
The news of attack on Jain muni by Muslim youth was shared by several serial peddlers of fake news. Mahesh Vikram Hegde who is the founder of fake news site PostCard News and Gaurav Pradhan who has been caught spreading fake news on several occasions also put out this claim on their Twitter accounts. Both Mahesh Vikram Hegde and Gaurav Pradhan are followed by Prime Minister Modi on Twitter.
One of the first to share this information on Facebook was a person called Deepak Shetty whose post has been shared over 6000 times now.
This was also shared on the Facebook page of PostCard News.
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