{"id":38710,"date":"2021-11-07T18:59:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T09:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/07\/india-hunts-fake-news-spreaders-after-anti-muslim-attacks"},"modified":"2021-11-07T18:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T09:59:24","slug":"india-hunts-fake-news-spreaders-after-anti-muslim-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38710","title":{"rendered":"India hunts &#8216;fake news&#8217; spreaders after anti-Muslim attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Misleading images shared on social media after mosques vandalised and homes ransacked in Tripura state<\/p>\n<p>Police in India are seeking the owners of about 100 social media accounts accused of sharing \u201cfake news\u201d after mob attacks on mosques in the north-east of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Last month\u2019s violence in Tripura state erupted on the sidelines of a rally for hundreds of followers of a rightwing Hindu nationalist group. The incident appeared to be a revenge attack prompted by the killing of several Hindu worshippers across the border in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/07\/india-hunts-fake-news-spreaders-after-anti-muslim-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misleading images shared on social media after mosques vandalised and homes ransacked in Tripura statePolice in India are seeking the owners of about 100 social media accounts accused of sharing \u201cfake news\u201d after mob attacks on mosques in the north-eas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[687,62,351,238,824,61,58,350,42,1281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-india","category-internet","category-media","category-social-networking","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-twitter","category-world-news","category-youtube"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38711,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710\/revisions\/38711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}