There has been a spurt in the spread of fake news and misinformation from both Pakistan and a certain section of Indian media after the historic decision of abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5.
"Shame on you. You have been eating money all these years", said the Pakistani national to Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's permanent representative at the UN.
The Union home secretary recommended the closure of a few Twitter accounts for spreading rumours and misinformation to disturb the peace and calm in the Valley
The mysterious behaviour of Twitter which is often found censoring social media users for disagreeing to left-wing and ultra left-wing ideology has yet again come to the fore.
Various media outlets have reported falsely that Chief Minister of Haryana ML Khattar was talking about bringing Kashmiri girls to Haryana for marriage
Shekhar Gupta's The Print resorted to peddling false news after it claimed that the Modi government had briefed the US about its plans to scrap Article 370 twice.
Several such incidents of fake 'hate crime' have been reported where people have been faking this 'forced to chant Jai Shri Ram' stories to get noticed