Centre condemns Chinese vloggers for passing off Dhaka slums as Delhi

The Centre on 10 November condemned what it called a coordinated campaign against India by Chinese vloggers who presented places in Dhaka as Delhi.

About 150 Chinese nationals are reported to have filmed poor neighbourhoods in the Bangladeshi capital and broadcast the footage as scenes from India, The Hindu reported.

The Times of India’s evening news round-up on 10 November also listed India’s condemnation of the vloggers among the day’s main stories.

The report did not say which platforms carried the videos or how many people had watched them. China’s government had not responded to India’s statement when this story was published.

Videos that pass off one place as another are a common form of online misinformation. Fact-checkers often trace them by matching street signs, shop names and landmarks in the footage.