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A Birmingham councillor has released a video message urging the city’s Pakistani community to stop the spread of “fake news” around coronavirus. Warning about the dangers of sharing and spreading false COVID-19 information across social media platforms, Cllr Waseem Zaffar has suggested unverified and inaccurate information about the virus is putting lives at risk.
A new study warns the coronavirus crisis has fuelled online hate speech by racist and fascist groups and individuals which could lead to attacks against British Muslims after the lockdown. The study carried out by Imran Awan, Professor of Criminology at Birmingham City University and Roxana Khan-Williams, found that Islamophobic online ‘Cyber Hubs’ were being…
Police have rebuked a ‘fake’ video being shared on social media which aims to demonise Birmingham Muslims by claiming they are congregating at a mosque in Small Heath during the coronavirus lockdown. In recent days, the video has been circulating across social media allegedly showing a large group of worshippers entering and leaving a mosque following…
A popular YouTuber has broadcast an epic rant on his online video channel tackling the subject of “too many foreigners”, Muslims and immigrants in Britain. Jack Dean – aka JaackMaate – has laid into critics of immigrants, Muslims and “foreigners”, questioning the right-wing notion of “My Britain”, often used to justify xenophobic, Islamophobic and of…
A fake news story and video about “Muslim gangs” in Birmingham has gone viral all around the world, despite the individuals in the footage not being Muslim or from Birmingham. Not only was the footage not filmed in Birmingham, it isn’t even from the UK. Yet, that hasn’t stopped it from being shared thousands of…
People are getting majorly ticked off after discovering a traditional British road sign in gloriously British Yorkshire has suddenly been adorned with Arabic translations for the names of several destinations. A photo circulating on social media which shows a road sign – believed to be in Yorkshire – with distance directions to Harrogate, Leeds, Shipley…