By Nidhi Jacob Social media has been flooded with false information regarding demographic shifts within the Muslim community of Haldwani, Uttarakhand, after the city was engulfed in communal tensions following the demolition of a madrasa and a mosque. These posts falsely claimed that the Muslim population of Haldwani grew from 1,000 to 1 lakh in the last two decades, and that its share among the population of the city grew from 1% to 20% in the past 23 years. BOOM accessed census data provided by the Ministry of Home Affairs which stated that the Muslim population dropped from 80,000 in 2001 t…