Indian Express
21 April 2020
Palghar lynching: Dahanu MLA blames police for failing
to quell rumours, assure villagers
Dahanu MLA Vinod Nikole has claimed that the police’s
failure to assure tribal communities in remote villages of its presence and
quell rumours about organ harvesters and child kidnappers eventually led to the
lynching of three men last Thursday. […]
BOOM [India]
21 April 2020
How Child Kidnapping Rumours Led To A Mob Lynching In
Palghar
Fake messages claiming child kidnappers and thieves
are on the prowl in various villages in Palghar were viral among local
residents, days before a violent mob lynched three people including two Hindu
seers. BOOM was able to access these messages which asked residents to stay
alert and also led to villages forming neigbourhood watch groups to patrol the
streets at night. […]
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The Daily Star [Dhaka, Bangladesh]
22 April 2020
Ice cream industry melting on a rumour
[…] The countrywide shutdown since March 26 has
pounded almost all sectors of the economy more or less, but the ice cream, it
appears, has been a victim of a cruel joke on top. A rumour was spread on
social media quoting the United Nations Children's Fund that ice cream
consumption would lead to catching coronavirus. Though the United Nations
agency denied it, the damage was already done, with people avoiding ice cream
like plague. […]
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Sydney Morning Herald [Australia]
23 April 2020
Column 8
[…] In the 1960s the grandmother of Jennifer Dewar of
Double Bay lived in a block of flats where all rubbish […] was put outside the
door of each flat to be collected daily by a caretaker. "When my
grandmother had a drinks party she told us she wouldn’t put all the bottles out
at once as it would give a poor impression. Instead she put one out each day
for a week, and was unable to understand why her family was amused." […]
