

{"id":6013,"date":"2017-10-15T20:32:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T15:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=6013"},"modified":"2017-10-15T23:18:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T17:48:40","slug":"ani-fall-whatsapp-forward-2000-rohingyas-planning-attack-nagaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/ani-fall-whatsapp-forward-2000-rohingyas-planning-attack-nagaland\/","title":{"rendered":"Did ANI fall for a WhatsApp forward about 2000 Rohingyas planning to attack Nagaland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cRohingyas likely to attack Nagaland\u201d<\/em> The ANI story on Oct 12<sup>th<\/sup> quoted Intelligence branch of Nagaland Police to raise alarm bells about the security threat that Rohingyas pose to national security. The story went on to say that \u201c<em>the Imam of Dimapur is contacting the Rohingya rebels and has commenced collecting huge amount of arms and ammunitions from Bangladesh\u201d<\/em> and that <em>\u201c2,000 Muslims have volunteered to take up arms against the Nagas, if the latter try to drive them out.\u201d<\/em> It did not end there. <em>ANI<\/em> went on to say that around 20 ISIS terrorists had entered Nagaland and were training the volunteers and suicide bomb attacks and bomb blasts were likely throughout Nagaland. ISIS training camps? Bomb attacks throughout Nagaland? Even before we could react to the claims made, the news was deleted by <em>ANI<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/10\/Selection_146.png\" alt=\"ani fake whatsapp forward\" width=\"739\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/10\/Selection_146.png 739w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/10\/Selection_146-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/10\/Selection_146-696x323.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The story disappeared from the <em>ANI<\/em> website almost as mysteriously as it had appeared but not before it was picked up by websites like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/postcard.news\/high-alert-rohingya-terrorists-planning-to-attack-nagaland-and-entire-north-east\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Postcard News<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/at-least-2-000-rohingya-muslims-joins-isis-to-attack-nagaland-reports-331603.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">India Times<\/a><\/em>. You can read the now deleted <em>ANI<\/em> story <a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:g3-LAtB8SZYJ:https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/world\/asia\/rohingyas-likely-to-attack-nagaland201710122325070005\/+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=in\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. We\u00a0did not find the <em>ANI<\/em> report in any national newspapers or news channels other than <em>Times Now<\/em>. Even though the original <em>ANI<\/em> report has been deleted, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesnownews.com\/india\/article\/isis-rohingyas-nagaland-supreme-court-of-india-rohingya-people-dimapur-pakistan-bangladesh-myanmar\/106444\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Times Now<\/em> story <\/a>is still available.<\/p>\n<p>The story was also tweeted by several Right-wing handles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At Least 2,000 Rohingya Muslims Joins ISIS To Attack Nagaland: Reports &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JE3E2oGm3m\">https:\/\/t.co\/JE3E2oGm3m<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nDQch7zwEQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/nDQch7zwEQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tapan Ghosh (@hstapanghosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hstapanghosh\/status\/919286987722502149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At Least 2,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rohingya?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rohingya<\/a> Muslims join <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ISIS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ISIS<\/a> with plans to to atack <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nagaland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nagaland<\/a> in India&#39;s northeast. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lFvd8cYBqW\">https:\/\/t.co\/lFvd8cYBqW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TarekFatah\/status\/918872594216038400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Local publication <em><a href=\"http:\/\/morungexpress.com\/national-news-agency-fall-victim-fake-news\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morung Express<\/a><\/em> raised the flag about <em>ANI<\/em> falling for fake news. It reported that the so-called \u201cnews\u201d was circulating widely on Facebook and WhatsApp groups before <em>ANI<\/em> reported it. Idgah Committee, the apex body of all the Mosques of Dimapur District had called it false propaganda that was being spread with a malafide intention. The publication also reported that the state Police was not aware about the \u201cintelligence report\u201d and was trying to trace the origin of the social media messages.<\/p>\n<p>Alt News found messages dating back to October 10th on Facebook which claimed that Rohingyas are going to attack Nagaland. The following image is an example of one such chain message. The ANI story as we mentioned earlier was dated October 12th.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/10\/Selection_145.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"372\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/10\/Selection_145.png 490w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/10\/Selection_145-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/10\/Selection_145-80x60.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yet another North Eastern Portal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.time8.in\/rohingya-likely-to-attack-nagaland-story-is-fake\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Time8<\/em><\/a> spoke to Renchamo P Kikon, IGP, Intelligence Department of Nagaland Police who said, <em>\u201cWe have not issued any such statement, also the Muslim Council and Idgah Committee of Dimapur have issued statements informing that these news are fake and they didn\u2019t receive any inputs in the matter of Rohingyas. Most importantly, Police has a certain procedure in notifying an issue.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So far <em>ANI<\/em> has not clarified why it deleted its story. Did ANI fall for a fake whatsapp forward? If it was later found to be based on unverified reports, <em>ANI <\/em>has the responsibility to say so. Quietly deleting a story is not the answer. The deleted story has set into motion the rumor mills, right wing handles and websites like <em>Postcard News<\/em> who are continuing to share and outrage about it. Interestingly, the breaking of this \u201cnews\u201d came at the time of the Supreme Court hearing on deportation of Rohingya refugees. With so much of fake news around us on social media, if news agencies like <em>ANI<\/em> also delete stories without a clarification, who do we trust anymore?<\/p>\n<div class=\"important\">\n<p>Subsequent to our story, Smita Prakash who is the Editor News at ANI has put out a clarification on Twitter which we are presenting here in full.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pyuXpumzDq\">pic.twitter.com\/pyuXpumzDq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Smita Prakash (@smitaprakash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smitaprakash\/status\/919606616919498752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, this news has already reached many because multiple media organisations and fake news portals have republished it and haven&#8217;t bothered to pull down their stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRohingyas likely to attack Nagaland\u201d The ANI story on Oct 12th quoted Intelligence branch of Nagaland Police to raise alarm bells about the security threat that Rohingyas pose to national security. The story went on to say that \u201cthe Imam of Dimapur is contacting the Rohingya rebels and has commenced collecting huge amount of arms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-6013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Did ANI fall for a WhatsApp forward about 2000 Rohingyas planning to attack Nagaland? - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Did ANI fall for a WhatsApp forward about 2000 Rohingyas planning to attack Nagaland? - Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cRohingyas likely to attack Nagaland\u201d The ANI story on Oct 12th quoted Intelligence branch of Nagaland Police to raise alarm bells about the security threat that Rohingyas pose to national security. 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