September 19, 2024

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YouTuber Karolina Goswami and her husband say they have been focused in Europe for fact-checking Dhruv Rathee

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YouTuber Karolina Goswami and her husband Anurag Goswami have alleged that the supporters of pro-AAP YouTuber Dhruv Rathee attacked them in Germany and France after she fact-checked Rathee. In a video posted on their YouTube Channel India in Details, they stated that Dhruv Rathee’s followers attacked them in Berlin and Paris, vandalised their automobile, and took away some gadgets.

Anurag stated that the primary incident occurred in Berlin after they had gone to satisfy the daddy of child Ariha, who was taken away by the German authorities. After assembly Bhavesh Shah, they went out to get one thing to eat, the place they met one in all their subscribers. After that, they went to Brandebug Gate space the place Karolina needed to shoot a video. Their youngsters Bhevin and Milan have been additionally with them.

Trouble started when Karolina was capturing the video, as supporters of Dhruv Rathee appeared and began shouting threats to them. ‘Dhruv Ratheew will destroy you, we will destroy you’, they allegedly screamed at Karolina Goswami. As their youngsters have been with them, the couple determined to not confront the followers of Dhruv Rathee and drove away from the place.

They have been once more confronted by Drhuv Rathee followers in Paris after some days, the place their automobile was damaged. They shared video of the automobile with damaged home windows, which was close to the Eifel Tower. When Anurag approached the automobile, the attackers began abusing Karolina by saying, “your ‘b***h makes videos on Dhruv Rathee”. Anurag Goswami stated that he wished to confront them, however they walked away.

He added that every one the precious gadgets stored within the automobile have been there, besides a microphone with in-built storage, which suggests they stole the info together with the mic.

The Goswamis have filed a case towards the attackers with the police. Anurag stated that whereas the confronted language barrier initially, they have been in a position to register a case.

Anurag Goswami stated that just a few days in the past in Belgium, after visiting the European Parliament, Karolina launched an ‘International list of shame’ and Dhruv Rathee’s identify was on the record. And now his supporters are attacking them and their household.

He additional stated, “Dhruv Rathee, I want to say this to you. My wife Karolina exposed your fake content by fact checking your video to protect viewers from your lies. Does she deserve this? Do we deserve this? Dhruv Rathee, why? Talk to me directly. A man to man talk, I am ready for that.”

Anurag Goswami added, “Dhruv Rathee, you’re bringing shame to our nation. This just shows how hollow your so-called principles are and how dangerous it can be to fact check your videos,” He additional requested, “Will the Indian YouTube Community watch this silently,” noting that a lot of them discuss with Karolina as sister, did, aka and many others.

“A citizen of the European Union, a woman, is attacked by radicalized supporters of an Indian born propagandist who has published fake content, and I want to make this clear these are serious crimes,” he added.

The confrontation between the YouTubers began when Karolina Goswami posted a video in June 2021, the place she reality checked Dhruv Rathee’s claims on World Happiness Index. She had proven how the claims made by Rathee relating to the methodology of the survey have been incorrect. She then went on to submit two extra movies fact-checking Dhruv’s claims intimately.

Karolina subsequently posted a number of movies difficult him to instantly confront her as a substitute of letting his ‘radicalised supporters’ to focus on her. She has been asking him to apologise to the viewers for his pretend movies, saying that in any other case, she’s going to fact-check extra of his movies. She had alleged that Dhruv Rathee is politically motivated, and he’s spreading politically charged, fabricated, invalid and faux content material whereas presenting himself as an ‘educator’.

This just isn’t the primary time radicalised followers of Dhruv Rathee have attacked Karolina Goswami. In June 2021, after she had fact-checked Rathee, she revealed in a video that Rathee and his followers have been attacking and abusing her. She had accused Dhruv of mentally harassing and abusing her for fact-checking his movies.

It is notable that in her movies, Karolina Goswami defined how Rathee misled his viewers by misconstruing the methodology of the World Happiness Report to hawk blatant lies towards India. Listing out every lie of Rathee within the video, Karolina Goswami had defined how the pro-AAP blogger had erred in understanding the rating methodology of the report. In his video, Rathee had displayed a poor understanding of the methodology of rankings and went on to propagate misinformation to his viewers. Based on the flawed understanding, Rathee had gone on to assert that Pakistan was a lot happier than India.