The US-based Center for the Study of Organized Hate said it had tracked more than 700,000 posts generated by more than 170,000 accounts on Twitter claiming “Hindu genocide” between August 2024 and January 2026.
Raqib Naik, head of the think tank, said, “We have tracked coordinated Indian disinformation online falsely alleging large-scale violence against Hindus in Bangladesh.”
“More than 90 percent of this material came from India, with the rest linked to Hindu nationalist networks affiliated in Britain, the US and Canada,” he told AFP.
Some of the examples debunked by AFP Fact Check were shared thousands of times, including an AI-generated video of a woman who had lost her arm appealing not to vote for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which many see as leading the party.