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Trending: Lord Dinkan: The Cartoon Mouse God

Lord Dinkan: The Cartoon Mouse God

09/04/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Trending, Lord Dinkan: The Cartoon Mouse God

The rise of India's new mouse worshipping religion and fake Facebook events.

The rise of Dinkoism, a new Indian religion which worships a cartoon mouse. Plus, fake Facebook events designed simply to collect your personal data.

Dinkoism is a new Indian religion whose followers worship a cartoon mouse with superpowers. More than 40,000 people like the group’s worldwide Facebook pages and this month they’re even marching to try and become recognised as a religious minority. But Dinkoism was really set up by rationalists in the state of Kerala to parody organised religions and many people have found it offensive.

Would you want to attend a Summer Safari Waterpark? This week many people who signed up for a series of attractive events on Facebook were disappointed to find there were no concrete plans behind them. Now people are questioning whether they were invented just to collect people’s personal data. 

Produced by Anisa Subedar.

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