Soon after India launched Operation Sindoor in the early hours of May 7, unverified visuals of missiles and aircraft were viral on social media with claims that these depicted the…
A 37-second-long clip with visuals of fire and smoke and the sound of gunfire went viral on social media on May 7 within hours of the news break about India’s…
A 57-second clip showing Pakistan’s army chief, General Asim Munir, with armed troops is viral on social media. Claims have emerged online that Munir is visiting the Line of Control…
On April 24, a huge fire engulfed a 19th-century Welsh chapel in Port Talbot town of Wales. A video of the ablaze Bethany English Calvinistic Methodist Chapel quickly went viral…
On April 5, the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which was cleared by both Houses of Parliament, received the nod from President Droupadi Murmu, making it a law. Soon, protests erupted…
Trigger Warning: Mention of Strong Expletives In a classic case of shooting the messenger, Mumbai Police recently flagged tweets by independent journalist Kunal Purohit which documented anti-Muslim slogans and expletives…
A 16-second video showing a fleet of motorcycles is viral on social media. The video frame has a Hindi text embedded in it that reads, “Rajasthan Bajrang Dal reached West…
Amid the outcry over the Telangana government’s clearance drive of the Kancha Gachibowli forested land, near the University of Hyderabad (UoH), social media was rife with images and videos showing…
Against the backdrop of a video of an Iftar party at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University (JU) going viral, Union minister and BJP West Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar on March 26 took…
Often, innocuous-seeming symbols are encrypted with coded messages. For instance, in the United States, a hangman’s noose is associated with the far-Right, White supremacist group Ku Klux Klan (or the…
