Pooja Chaudhuri is a researcher and trainer at Bellingcat with a focus on human rights and conflict. She has a Master's in Data Journalism from Columbia University and previously worked at Alt News.
A video where individuals sporting BJP sashes can be seen beaten up by a crowd is widely circulating on social media. The accompanying caption reads, “acche din for #BJP in…
BJP media panellist Yashveer Raghav shared a poster of a protest rally against the Citizenship Amendment Act (2019) which allegedly mentions that the dress code for women attendees is ‘Hijab…
Pakistani Canadian author Tarek Fatah tweeted a video with the claim that it shows a Pakistani mother denying polio workers from vaccinating her children. “Pakistani mother slams the door shut…
“In my SIT (Special Investigation Team), there are three ACPs and seven officers, and we have been working day and night“, announced DCP (Crime) Joy Tirkey during a January 10…
Two photographs of JNSU president Aishe Ghosh have been juxtaposed together to portray that she plastered different arms at different times. Thus suggesting that her injuries are fake. Ghosh was…
Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone expressed solidarity with students injured on the intervening night of January 5-6 during violence at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Padukone’s visit to the campus irked a…
On January 7, Ashish Chauhan, national secretary of RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), tweeted photographs of Soori Krishnan, an activist with CPI’s student wing Students’ Federation of India (SFI)….
A video of a man in a red jacket beating up another person in green clothing is widely circulating on social media to espouse the claim that students associated with…
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan shared a video claiming that it shows police brutality against Muslim in Uttar Pradesh. The PM tweeted, “Indian police’s pogrom against Muslims in UP.” But later…
A video of policemen rounding up people and thrashing them with batons inside what looks like premises of a prison is viral on social media. The accompanying claim suggests that…
