DeTect: TV channel misreports Disha Ravi as a single mother
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By : migrator
Update: 2021-02-19 19:24 GMT
Chennai
Delhi Police arrested Disha Ravi, a 22-year-old environmental activist, on February 14 citing that she is a key conspirator in formulation and dissemination of the ‘toolkit’ shared by climate activist Greta Thunberg related to the farmers’ protests. A TV channel also published a report identifying Disha as a single mother. Disha’s high-school friend told Alt News that the claim of Disha being a single mother is false. Twitter was also abuzz with hashtags of various netizens claiming what they did when they were 22, a reference to Disha’s age and her ‘anti-govt’ stand.
First published on www.altnews.in
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