The bogey of north Indian migrants “under attack” in Tamil Nadu refuses to die down. The police in Tamil Nadu have filed six cases so far over such rumours and come up with a series of guidelines to quell fake news propagating similar claims.
A political war earlier raged across states, with BJP leaders using the occasion to shred apart the opposition’s bonhomie: the RJD-JDU government in Bihar and the DMK government in Tamil Nadu. However, political parties were not the only protagonists in this saga of panic, nor were social media accounts. Such fake news, in fact, had been amplified by sections of the mainstream media too.
