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    Shinjinee Majumder

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    Student of Economics at Presidency University. Interested in misinformation.

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    Victim blaming on social media: How Shraddha murder case exposed the patriarchal core of Right Wing

    Shinjinee Majumder & Mahaprajna Nayak1st December 2022

    Inter-faith relationships between Hindu women and Muslim men have been a sore point for the Indian Right Wing for decades. The alleged defiance of traditional norms and customs by Hindu…

    NewsSports

    No Rolls Royce for Saudi Arabia players, reports by nat’l, int’l media outlets false

    Shinjinee Majumder27th November 202227th November 2022

    Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about each member of the Saudi Arabian squad being awarded a Rolls Royce started circulating on…

    PoliticsReligion

    After social media outrage, ‘Rashid Khan’ justifying Shraddha murder turns out to be Vikas Kumar

    Shinjinee Majumder25th November 202226th November 2022

    In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin Poonawala, the video interview of a man claiming to be Rashid Khan from Bulandshahr went…

    NewsReligionSociety

    A woman’s body discovered in a trolley bag in Yamuna Expressway is a case of honour killing

    Shinjinee Majumder21st November 202221st November 2022

    Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the body of a young woman found on the Yamuna Expressway, with the claim that she…

    NewsSociety

    ‘32000 Kerala women in ISIS’: Misquotes, flawed math, imaginary figures behind filmmaker’s claim

    Shinjinee Majumder & Archit8th November 20228th November 2022

    The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social media in which a burqa-clad woman recounts her past as a Hindu named Shalini Unnikrishnan…

    Politics

    Video of ED raid in Kolkata falsely shared again, this time as crackdown on Surat businessman

    Shinjinee Majumder5th November 20229th November 2022

    A video apparently showing visuals of a raid by the Enforcement Directorate at the house of a Surat-based cloth merchant named Sekhar Agarwal has been shared widely on Twitter. It…

    Media analysis

    Jagran publishes article claiming lighting diyas increases oxygen, then deletes it

    Shinjinee Majumder1st November 20221st November 2022

    In a now-deleted article titled “दीप प्रज्ज्वलन के वैज्ञानिक और आध्यात्मिक पक्ष, जानें ये है फायदे” (Translation: Scientific and Spiritual Aspects of Lamp Lighting, Know These Benefits), Hindi news media…

    ReligionSociety

    Accused in 17-yr-old’s murder in Delhi not Muslims, false claim viral on social media

    Shinjinee Majumder31st October 202231st October 2022

    A CCTV footage of a person being stabbed in a narrow lane is being circulated on social media with the claim that the accused belongs to the Muslim community. National…

    Politics

    Misinformation, false claims about UK PM Rishi Sunak flood social media

    Shinjinee Majumder29th October 2022

    On October 27, the United Kingdom got its first non-white Prime Minister in Rishi Sunak. At 42, the former chancellor of the exchequer also became Britain’s youngest Prime Minister in…

    NewsPolitics

    Concocted opinion polls predicting AAP victory in Gujarat elections viral

    Shinjinee Majumder25th October 2022

    A collection of opinion polls apparently predicting the results of the upcoming Gujarat polls is going viral. All the graphics indicate the victory of the Aam Aadmi Party. The four…

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