Amid the ongoing unrest in Bangladesh, social media platforms are flooded with unverified videos and images of alleged attacks on the minorities in the country. A video currently circulating on…
Vande Bharat stone-pelting: 2 Hindu accused misidentified as Salman, Shahid to add communal spin
The Union rail ministry recently tweeted that two accused who pelted stones at the Vande Bharat Express from Gaya had been arrested. Social media users have since amplified the tweet…
A brawl between college students in Bangladesh viral with a false communal spin
A video of a chaotic brawl outside Dr. Mahbubur Rahman Mollah College in Bangladesh has gone viral on social media. It has been shared with captions alleging that it depicts…
Tirupati: Details of Pakistani company ‘A R Foods’ falsely viral with communal spin to ‘laddoo’ row
Amid the raging controversy over the alleged use of animal fat in the making of Tirupati ‘laddoo’, several social media users have claimed that the ghee used in the preparation…
Bangladesh: Yet another video of assault on Awami League youth leader viral in India with a communal spin
This story uses screenshots and not actual tweets in view of the graphic nature of the video being fact-checked. The political unrest that erupted in Bangladesh following the student protests…
Stores of Bangladeshi retail brand ‘Yellow’ ransacked; video viral in India with communal spin
Bangladesh was plunged into an unprecedented crisis with erstwhile Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ousted on August 5 after a month-long nationwide student protest. Incidents of attacks on minority Hindus have…
Manipuri Muslim woman beaten up by UNLF for drug peddling: Video shared with communal spin
A 61-second-long clip has gone viral on social media with users claiming that it shows a Muslim woman being beaten to death in the state of Manipur by Hindutva activists…
Ram Navami: Right Wing users amplify Ranchi Poilce’s drone surveillance footage with communal spin
A video playing out on a mobile screen showing drone camera surveillance footage of Ranchi police monitoring rooftops of houses has been circulating rapidly on social media. It is being…
Spanish vlogger’s rape: Only one of eight arrested is a Christian; crime given false communal spin
Trigger Warning: Rape A 28-year-old Spanish travel vlogger was allegedly gang-raped by seven men in Jharkhand’s Dumka on Friday, March 1. The victim and her partner were headed towards Bhagalpur…
Darbhanga land dispute falsely reported as case of forced religious conversion, viral with communal spin
An incident from Muria village in the Bhalpatti police station area of Bihar’s Darbhanga has been making headlines. Two locals, Rajdhan Devi and Vicky Kumar, have claimed that they hail…