On March 3, Republic TV published a report claiming that Baloch Republic Army (BRA) had attacked and destroyed 3 Pakistani Army posts. It was claimed that BRA fighters attacked the…
Surendra Poonia passes off unrelated photo as teacher recently killed in France
BJP member Surendra Poonia shared a photograph of protestors holding ‘Refugees Welcome’ placards. Their faces are masked. Poonia alleges that the man in the middle is French teacher Samuel Paty…
BJP member Surendra Poonia falls for ‘oranges banned in Cyberabad’ satire
BJP member Major Surendra Poonia shared an image (archive) that looked like a newspaper front page with the headline, “Cyberabad Police bans the sale of oranges in the city”. Poonia…
Major Gaurav Arya tweets 2006, 2010 images as Baloch attack on Pak troops; deletes later
“News of 7 Pakistani Army soldiers being killed by Baloch freedom fighters of Jaish-al-Adl is trickling in. My Baloch friends say that they will keep attacking Pak Army till they…
Major Gaurav Arya tweets misleading video, defends the misinformation
Major Gaurav Arya, an army veteran and host of Republic TV’s show, ‘Patriot’, tweeted a video on March 14. In the video, a group of blindfolded soldiers, whose hands are…
Kejriwal ‘tweet’ on ED-CBI summons to politicians amplified by Kiren Rijiju is fake
A tweet from 2012 purportedly by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is viral on social media. In it, he calls for the resignation of ‘corrupt leaders’ who do not appear…
Video with Pakistani YouTuber Ahsan Mewati’s call to kill Monu Manesar viral with false ‘Indian’ claims
Amid the ongoing communal violence in Haryana’s Nuh, a clip of a man instigating his followers to kill cow vigilante Monu Manesar in abusive language is viral on social media….
Fact check: Saudi Arabia has not banned loudspeakers on Ramzan
The Saudi Arabian minister of Islamic affairs Sheikh Abdullatif bin Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh recently issued a circular underlining the steps to be taken to prepare mosques for the month of Ramadan…
‘Union of states’: A sea of difference between what Rahul said & what Amritpal Singh said
On February 23, followers of Punjab’s pro-Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh clashed with the police outside Ajnala police station near Amritsar, Punjab, and demanded the release of one of the members…
Muslim man lynched for blasphemy in Pak, RW Twitter users claim he was a Christian
[The following story contains descriptions of violence and graphic videos.] On Saturday, February 11, a mob attacked a police station in Nankana Sahib, in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The crowd entered…