Ground Report: , West Bengal https://thewire.in/communalism/ground-report-what-really-happened-in-violence-hit-telinipara-west-bengal
According to the police and locals, the violence which broke out in this part of Hooghly district 40 kms north of Kolkata was a planned, systematically executed attack targeting the neighbourhood's Muslim residents...On the evening of Sunday, May 10, a small inter-community squabble broke out here, which was resolved by police intervention. Monday, May 11 passed without incident. Then, on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 12, a big mob descended on the locality and large-scale targeted violence followed.
Discussing The Violence In West Bengal & The Fake News Ecosystem | Himadri Ghosh & Seraj Ali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz7tQhshtms As the violence erupted, images and videos began to be circulated on social media platforms, said to be depicting the violence in West Bengal. Many of these visuals were shared by leaders of the BJP. However, AltNews, the independent fact-checking website, has debunked several of these images and videos as fake. In this interview, The Wire's Seraj Ali discusses the repeated instances of post-poll violence in the state, the fake news ecosystem that surrounded it