Since the beginning of 2020, several social media users have been sharing an image of BJP Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari and Imam Ahmed Bukhari, the 13th Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid. The viral post takes a subtle dig at Tiwari and the Bharatiya... Read More
Author - Archit Mehta
Several social media users have posted images that show stacks Rs 2,000 currency notes seized by the police. The accompanying claim suggests that the cash was recovered from the car of Ketan Dave, an RSS worker. On January 14, Twitter-user @HabibHasan_... Read More
The trailer of Bollywood film ‘Shikara – The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits’ released on January 7, 2020. Journalist Aditya Raj Kaul shared the trailer and tweeted, “In tears. I am unable to move. For the first time someone... Read More
On January 6, a day after the recent attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) by masked assailants armed with lathis and iron rods, several social media users posted two images of sex toys with the claim that these belong to students of JNU. Twitter... Read More
Since the past few days, an image of a Muslim woman with a bandage on her eye during a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has been shared by many. The woman is being ridiculed for wrapping the bandage over her hijab, indicating that... Read More
On December 26, a Twitter user @RinaThakur_ shared a picture of a mother breastfeeding her child through a fence and claimed it depicts a detention centre in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi which is Prime Minister Modi’s constituency. The user... Read More
Several social media users have shared a 44-second video of police arresting civilians and claimed that the incident is from Assam after the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). On January 3, @QamarAb42592867 tweeted the video and... Read More
Several people on social media have been circulating a text message which states that a ‘Hindu Jain girl’ was taken away by a Muslim boy in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. It further adds that after the incident the Jain community decided to... Read More
On January 2, several social media users shared a video and claimed that anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protesters burned pictures of Hindu gods during a rally. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra quote-tweeted one of the tweets that had shared the... Read More
Since December 28, several social media users have posted a video of students standing in a queue at Toronto Pearson International Airport. These posts claim that the video shows Indian students being deported from Canada for submitting fake results of... Read More