Tarek Fatah, the Unrelenting Fake News Peddler Who Targets Indian Muslims Regularly
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 Tarak Fatah tweeted a video of Burqa-clad women dancing at a wedding, asking if it was from Shaheen Bagh. Fatah had tweeted the same video three years ago, twice.
Aprominent name on social media, Tarek Fatah is an active Twitter user with over 6 lakh followers. But on numerous occasions, the Pakistani-Canadian writer has been found circulating misinformation along communal lines, particularly targeting Indian Muslims. A matter of even more concern is Fatah’s failure to take down misleading tweets despite being made aware of the misinformation. In fact, in the latest spree, he took an extra effort to ensure that his followers remain misled.
Fatah??a video of Burqa-clad persons dancing to a Bollywood number. He questioned –?“Could someone confirm if this video is from the #CAA_NRCProtests at #ShaheenBagh or nor?”? There are enough hints in the video which suggest that it does not represent protests at Shaheen Bagh against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The group is dancing around a woman dressed as a bride. Quite ironically, Fatah had tweeted the same video three years ago…twice. When he was??Fatah quietly took down his tweet from?. However, he missed doing the same for the video tweeted earlier in?.
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-------------------------- Jawed Anwar
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