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.
“Friends, today I will tell you a way to get Muslims out of India…Play ‘Vande Mataram’ in the entire nation and all Muslims will leave.” This was a post circulated by Facebook…
At 1:25 PM on October 28, ANI tweeted a part of Shashi Tharoor’s speech at the Bangalore Literature Festival where the Congress MP quoted an unidentified RSS leader who had metaphorically termed…
A Twitter user Girish Bharadwaja, who describes himself as a member of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and is followed by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal’s Office, tweeted on October 28, “Acid…
An image is doing the rounds on social media with a quote that is attributed to actor Shah Rukh Khan. In this quote, it is claimed that Khan stated, “I…
With the caption “retweet indicates someone is fighting for Pakistan in India”, Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Giriraj Singh, on October 25, tweeted a screenshot of…
On October 23, Twitter user Diwakar Kothari posted a video of an alleged incident where “an Indian army officer snatched an AK-47 from a terrorist”. The video was liked over 7,500…
The Bharatiya Janata Party posted a fact-checking video on October 25, claiming that Rahul Gandhi “peddled fake news on India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index.” Rahul Gandhi peddles fakes…
In the wake of the Sabarimala row, Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani stirred up a controversy with her remark on menstruating women entering temples. “I am nobody to speak on…
Delhi MLA Manjinder S Sirsa from NDA-affiliated Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) tweeted a photograph of a lady holding former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in an embrace from behind and kiss him…
“अमृतसर में 100 से ज्यादा लोगों को कुचलकर मारने वाली ट्रेन का ड्राइवर “इम्तियाज़ अली” था।“ (Translated: The driver of the trained that killed over 100 people in Amritsar was…
