Indian WhatsApp lynchings
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title:
Indian WhatsApp lynchings
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The Indian WhatsApp lynchings are a spate of mob-related violence and killings following the spread of rumours, primarily relating to child-abduction and organ harvesting, via the WhatsApp message service. The spate of lynchings commenced in May 2017 with the killing of seven men in Jharkhand, but did not become a matter of national attention until the beginning of the following year. Fake messages customised with locally specific details are circulated along with real videos attached to fake me
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Type of violence in India
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings
date created:
2018-07-27T07:01:55Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T18:48:12Z
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