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'Concocts A Conclusion Nowhere Present In Our Report': Lead Author Of Study On Leicester Violence Calls Out Bloomberg For Pushing 'False Narrative'
Bloomberg headline on the NCRI report was picked up by many publications (Pic Via Twitter)
The lead author of the Leicester violence report released by Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) has slammed Bloomberg for distorting the report and its findings.
"As a lead author & researcher on the Leicester report released by NCRI, I’d like to set the record straight after a Bloomberg headline has been picked up and circulated prolifically by other outlets. It’s a distortion of our report & findings," Prasiddha Sudhakar, the lead author of the report, said in a tweet.
"The headline imposed by Bloomberg editors is severely editorial and not rooted in the data presented in our research".
"This is important since a large majority of news consumers read only the headline of news stories," she added.
"Instead, it concocts a conclusion nowhere present in our report," Sudhakar said.
She said that the Bloomberg chosing a headline that continues to push a false narrative that the NCRI report debunked is "indicative of systemic misreporting of the Hindu diaspora and India that infects Western media".
She added that the NCRI report "exhaustively documents" the way on-the-ground riots in Leicester were mobilized by local social media accounts and not those in India.
"Our findings suggest that a "Hindutva bogeyman" was constructed locally to mobilize violence. Violence against Hindus and temples was justified under the guise of responding to “Hindutva extremism"," she added.
