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Alleged Fact-Checker Zubair Peddles Wrong Data About BJP’s Electoral Bond Money And Deletes Post After Getting Caught; DMK IT Wing Amplifies Zubair’s False Claims

March 15, 2024
The Commune

As soon as the details of the electoral bonds were made available to the public via the Election Commission website, a large part of the population turned into data analysts and number crunchers. Among them was self-styled fact-checker Mohammed Zubair. 

In what seemed to be a hurried post which he left on his X timeline for a good amount of time, he claimed the Bharatiya Janata Party received ₹11562 crores through electoral bonds. 

He later deleted this post stating, “There were a few double entries. Will share it again with corrections.”

And followed it up with this post where he claimed “Update: BREAKING! BJP RECEIVED ₹6061 (47.46%) CRORE! Electoral bonds data received from SBI, Here is the summary of the amount received by the political parties. Also included top donors.”

Netizens called out his hypocrisy stating he was happily sharing false information and trying to set an anti-BJP narrative with respect to the electoral bonds. 

Ironically, DMK IT Wing shared the same data that was first shared by the alleged fact-checker and quoted the incorrect amount of 11562 crores. They still have not deleted the post making the false claim.

The DMK IT Wing continues to make posts that are irrelevant, and false and peddles misinformation hoodwinking a large part of the public. However, the IT Wing handle has not posted anything on the donations received by the DMK itself. 

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