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    Home / Archives for Pooja Chaudhuri / Page 17

    Pooja Chaudhuri

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    Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News.

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    Politics

    The Wire did not ‘disrespect’ Durga; excerpt from 2016 article misrepresented

    Pooja Chaudhuri26th October 2020

    An excerpt from an article in The Wire is making the rounds on Twitter to claim that the news organisation promoted ‘anti-Hindu’ sentiments by terming Durga Puja a “racist festival”…

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    Most Facebook fact-checking partners in India fail to fact-check BJP-led misinformation

    Pooja Chaudhuri25th October 202026th October 2020

    Social media giant Facebook has repeatedly come under the scanner after multiple reports of the company evading responsibility for hateful content and misinformation thriving on the platform. A Buzzfeed report…

    Religion

    Old video of protest by Muslim community in Paris revived after French teacher’s killing

    Pooja Chaudhuri24th October 2020

    French teacher Samuel Paty was recently beheaded in Paris by 18-year-old teenager Abdoulakh Anzorov. Paty had shown caricatures of Prophet Mohammed during a class on freedom of expression, in relation…

    Politics

    Old image from UP shared by RJD as Bihar police mistreating people in the state

    Pooja Chaudhuri23rd October 2020

    A photograph of policemen making people squat and hold their ears was shared by RJD Lakhisarai suggesting that it depicts mistreatment of Bihar citizens. जो भूल जाते हैं, दोबारा भोगते…

    Politics

    Surendra Poonia passes off unrelated photo as teacher recently killed in France

    Pooja Chaudhuri22nd October 2020

    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…

    Politics

    Bihar polls: BJP, News18 falsely claim CPI-ML’s Aaftab Alam was arrested in 2013 Patna blast case

    Pooja Chaudhuri20th October 202022nd October 2020

    Bihar police on October 15 arrested Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) candidate from CPI-ML Aaftab Alam while he was filing his nomination papers to contest the upcoming state polls from Aurai constituency…

    Religion

    Video from Bangladesh wrongly assumed as female students sexually harassed in madrasa in India

    Pooja Chaudhuri19th October 2020

    A video of a teacher sexually violating female students is being shared on Indian social media with the claim suggesting that the incident took place inside a madrasa. Twitter user…

    Politics

    Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah’s portrait at AMU

    Pooja Chaudhuri17th October 202017th October 2020

    The Congress party has fielded former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student leader Maskoor Usmani as a candidate for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections. He will be contesting from Jale constituency…

    Politics

    BJP Bihar Minister shares image of flyover in Hyderabad as Bihar

    Pooja Chaudhuri16th October 2020

    Suresh Kumar Sharma, Minister Of Urban Development and Housing Department in Bihar government, shared a poster of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with an image of a flyover. The poster…

    Politics

    Shefali Vaidya did not pass off imitation jewellery as Tanishq piece, morphed tweet viral

    Pooja Chaudhuri15th October 2020

    Shefali Vaidya, BJP supporter and vocal Hindutva activist, has been critical of a recent Tanishq advertisement featuring an interfaith couple. Vaidya was among those asking for a boycott of the…

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