Mehul Prajapati says he hasn’t left his room in days. He shakes from anxiety when his phone buzzes, he says.

Messages from strangers fill his inbox. “Get out of my country,” he’s been told. “You’re not safe here anymore,” says another.

“F—-ing swine.”

Last weekend, Prajapati found himself at the centre of an online storm after a video he posted sparked anger and some misinformation about him.

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One of the most popular posts targeting Prajapati, seen more than 730,000 times, was authored by Canadian right-wing activist Anna Slatz, in which she incorrectly stated Prajapati “has a job as a bank data scientist for TD Canada, a position that averages $98,000 per year.”

This online claim appears to have originated from a misreading of Prajapati’s now-deleted LinkedIn account. Images of this account before it was deleted that Prajapati shared with the Star, show he called himself a “passionate data scientist.” His work history listed him as having done a four-month business insights and analytics co-op at TD.

Slatz told the Star that Prajapati could not be food insecure because of what she saw on his social media account, pointing out that he owns musical instruments, and saying he had been pictured going to restaurants.

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