WebQoof Recap: From Misinformation Around AAIB Report, Media Misreporting & More
Read our weekly recap to find out top five fact-check stories from this week.
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From misinformation around the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau's (AAIB) report to media misreporting on Bangladesh, read our weekly recap to find out top five fact-check stories from this week.
1. AAIB's Report Triggers New Wave of Online Misinformation About Air India Crash
After a month of the tragic Air India AI 171 plane crash in Gujarat, the AAIB recently published its preliminary investigation's report that shared findings about the incident.
While the report carried the information about the findings, social media users were quick to share different types of claims and statements related to the tragic incident. Some of these claims were:
Pilots caused the crash.
Pilot reached for Emergency level three seconds before impact.
Voice recording reveals terrifying screams of 241 passengers.
However, Team WebQoof found that these claims were not backed by evidence and only amplified misleading narratives on the internet. Read our full report here to find out more.
2. Fact-Check: Viral Post on Aadhaar Saturation in Poll-Bound Bihar Is Misleading
A post that talked about the Aadhaar saturation in poll-bound Bihar and carried some figures from Muslim-majority districts, went viral on social media platforms.
The claim intended to create a narrative, which showed that the Aadhaar saturation percentage is higher in districts with higher Muslim population.
We found that the claim drew a misleading angle as districts with Hindu-majority population in Bihar, too, had a high Aadhaar saturation.
In other states like Delhi and Himachal Pradesh, districts with high Hindu population have high saturation percentages.
Read our report here.
3. Indian Media Misidentify Scrap Trader Brutally Killed in Bangladesh as Hindu
Media organisations, such as India Today, NDTV, India TV, Dainik Bhaskar English, and Wion, shared reports claiming that a Hindu scrap dealer named Lal Chand alias Sohag was brutally murdered by a mob in Bangladesh's Dhaka.
The claim was also peddled by several social media users.
An archive of the post can be found here.
An archive of the post can be found here.
An archive of the post can be found here.
An archive of the post can be found here.
But the claim was false. Local reports from Bangladesh and its interim government's fact-check unit clarified that the deceased belonged to the Muslim community.
Read the full story here.
4. Fact-Check: Old Clip From 2017 of Stone Pelting in Noida Society Viral as Recent
A video which showed security guards and several people throwing stones at each other with a claim that it showed a recent incident from a society in Noida, where a Bangladeshi Muslim domestic worker was caught stealing.
Team WebQoof found that the incident was old, which made the claim misleading.
The incident is from 2017, when a mob pelted stones at Mahagun Moderne society in Noida after a domestic help was allegedly assaulted by one of the residents.
Read our fact-check here.
5. Did AAP's Widow Pension Benefit 80,000 Muslim Women With Husbands? What We Know
There is no evidence to support the claim. The scheme's beneficiaries included divorced, abandoned, separated, destitute, and widowed women.
Further, the scheme was not religion-specific as the claim suggested.
Read the full story here.
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