Social media is lying to you about Burma’s Muslim ‘cleansing’ July 19, 2012 Don’t you wonder sometimes, that the information we are being fed on daily basis can be untrue entirely or exaggerated to the point where it loses all its truth? PHOTO: REUTERS Social networking sites are abuzz with news about Muslims being killed in Burma .You can see the sporadic posting of pictures by different people with captions like ‘Muslims killing in Burma’, ‘Muslims slaughtered by Buddhists in Burma’ and so on. Thus, I took on the mission to sort the truth out for myself once and for all and researched some pictures that I felt were dubious. Below are a few pictures and their original copies. You can evidently see the gross difference between them and how they are thrown out of context. This was a picture shared on Facebook. I have found the original version which reads differently to the the one posted on the social networking site. This picture was taken in 2010 after an earthqu