Who is the owner of Randomsena page on Twitter/X and Instagram, real name and face photo

Who is the owner of Randomsena page on Twitter/X and Instagram, real name and face photo

Have a look at the real name and photo of the owner of Randomsena

In times of accidents, epidemics, and other disasters, a secondary crisis has emerged in contemporary times— the proliferation of disinformation.

Following the Odisha train accident in 2023, two false narratives swiftly circulated: first, the claim that a mosque was situated close to the accident site, and second, the assertion that the involved station master had a Muslim name.

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A related speculation suggested the presence of a significant number of Rohingya Muslims residing in Balasore.

Who Shared the Picture?

On June 3, the X/Twitter account known as “The Random India” (@randomsena) shared a cropped drone image of the accident site, featuring an arrow pointing to a corner with a fuzzy structure resembling a minaret. The RandomSena account is run by Abhishek Singh but nothing else is known about him.

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The accompanying tweet read, “Just Saying. Yesterday was Friday.” Despite the account having a modest following of 54,500, the tweet garnered a minimum of 4.3 million views.

The tweet had accumulated approximately 4,600 retweets and 14,600 likes. Subsequently, the same account posted another tweet stating, “Just for Information: Balasore is a hub of illegal Rohingya Muslims.” Both tweets received flags from users for promoting hate.

Clarification Tweet Surfaced Online 

Upon a brief examination of the profile, it becomes evident that the engagement metrics, specifically the retweets and likes on inflammatory posts, significantly outweigh the follower count.

Any competent social media platform should be capable of recognizing such handles as potentially sponsored for a specific agenda.

In the case of Elon Musk’s X/Twitter, the controversial tweet was not taken down; instead, a clarification was appended: “The highlighted structure is the Bahanaga Iskcon temple, confirmed by a journalist at the crash site. It is not a mosque.”

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Twitter also included a link to the fact-checking website Alt-News, which had verified the structure as an Iskcon temple.

Account Owner Identity

The account owner, Identified as “Abhishek Singh,” eventually deleted the tweet, justifying the mention of Friday by referencing a past incident involving the Coromandel Express derailing on a Friday.

However, the tweet had already circulated widely on platforms like WhatsApp, causing irreversible damage. Anubhav Das, a survivor of the train accident, not only endorsed the tweet by liking it but, as reported by Alt-News fact checker Mohammed Zubair, also provided statements to news agency ANI suggesting the possibility of sabotage.

Identity of Station Master

Meanwhile, various accounts, including that of self-proclaimed journalist @SureshChavhanke, nonchalantly propagated the sabotage narrative (“…Terrorists have played holi with blood earlier too…”). Some users labeled it as “railway terrorism” or a “clear case of sabotage.”

On Facebook, seemingly innocent pages questioned whether the Assistant Station Master’s name was “Sharif.” On June 5, Bharat Bhavsar shared a photo of a man in a white uniform at a railway instrument panel, tweeting: “…The name of the station master of this station is Mohammed Sharif…”

It was later revealed that the Bahanaga Station Master was S.B. Mohanty, and fact-checking websites determined that the photo shared dated back to a 2004 blog about the Kottavalasa-Kirandul line. As communal rhetoric intensified on various platforms, the Odisha Police issued a warning of “severe legal action” against those spreading rumors.

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However, the unfortunate reality is that this destructive trend seems entrenched in India, with a significant number of people embracing falsehoods and insufficient efforts made to curb such misinformation.

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