Ahamed Yaseer Abrar

Researcher and translator. He has completed his graduation from Department of Criminology at University of Dhaka. His areas of interest are disinformation, state surveillance and crime.

Factcheck

Jamaat narrowly lost in 22 seats, not in 53 seats as falsely claimed

Jamaat-e-Islami alliance did not narrowly lose 53 seats; Dismislab’s fact-check shows 22 seats met that margin, with Jamaat candidates losing...

Research

From Nigeria with freebies: How elections were hijacked for affiliate traffic

Dismislab has uncovered a set of fraudulent webpages using the images of political leaders, celebrities and public institutions from at...

Media Literacy

Narrow defeats of Jamaat leaders fuel conspiracy claims. What do the numbers say?

Dismislab collected at least a dozen posts and comments with the core message being "without manipulation Jamaat alliance candidates would...