The fake news website BBCNewsHub.com has struck again claiming among other people, T.V. Mohandas Pai and BJP MP, Subramanian Swamy as its latest victims. “Shocking list. One Indian political party…
False dataset made viral to claim US elections registered more votes than voters
On November 19, Rudy Giuliani and members of the Trump campaign legal team held a 90-minute press conference and made multiple allegations about voter fraud in the US Presidential elections….
Media misreport: Lawyers Kapil Sibal, Indira Jaising, Dushyant Dave wrongly linked with alleged PFI support for CAA stir
Since the last two days, reports have emerged that according to an Enforcement Directorate report, Popular Front of India (PFI) mobilised Rs 120 crores during protests against the Citizenship Amendment…
Journalist Arfa Khanum’s speech on CAA shared with distorted interpretation by BJP office-bearers
“The Islamists want CAA protests to be ‘inclusive’ only till the time you, the non Muslims, start accepting their religious identity, beliefs and supremacist slogans as gospel,” tweeted BJP IT cell…
No, Indira Gandhi did not force Sitaram Yechury to resign as JNUSU president during emergency
A picture tweeted by former Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai on January 10, 2020, took Twitter by storm. It garnered 4,500 retweets and 9,500 likes in one day. The text on…
Did BBC, Al Jazeera, Reuters fabricate reports of unrest in Kashmir?
On August 10, BBC News had reported that thousands of protesters had taken to the streets in Soura, Srinagar against the government’s decision to strip Jammu and Kashmir of its special…
Old video of BJP WB chief heckled revived with false anti-Rohingya narrative
Ahead of the upcoming elections in West Bengal, RBI director and RSS ideologue S Gurumuthy shared a video of a crowd heckling members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including…
January round-up: Political sniping continues unabated in 2019
January, 2019 turned out to be business as usual for purveyors of misinformation, who used all sorts of tactics to manipulate the views of social media users. Targeting of political…
Old image of a Jain fast-unto-death ritual viral as protest against cow slaughter
A Twitter user, Prof. S. Vengugopalan tweeted a photograph of an emaciated man claiming that a Jain monk is fasting unto death to stop cow slaughter in India. It has…
Giriraj Singh quotes fake news website, terms Congress ‘world’s 2nd most corrupt party’
Union Minister and BJP MP Giriraj Singh tweeted on December 24 – “Top 10 List of Most Corrupt Political Party in the World 2018 and Rahul Gandhi led congress making it…