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    Home / Economics / Page 9

    Claim Type: Economics

    CompilationPolitics

    The year that was: Misinformation trends of 2020

    Pooja Chaudhuri5th January 20218th January 2021

    The word ‘unprecedented’ only mildly captures the year 2020. The coronavirus pandemic did more than confine the privileged inside their homes and leave the destitute to their fates. It has…

    Politics

    BJP uses protester’s image to depict ‘happy’ farmer; OpIndia’s failed attempt to defend

    Pooja Chaudhuri23rd December 202023rd December 2020

    BJP Punjab recently used a photograph of a ‘happy farmer’ on an advertisement for farm laws. But the person whose image was picked up wasn’t happy about the feature. Harpreet…

    Media analysisPolitics

    Journalists or bots? Flurry of identical, erroneous tweets on PM Modi’s gurudwara visit

    Sam Jawed21st December 2020

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unscheduled visit to gurudwara Rakab Ganj on Sunday, December 20, that started a flurry of activity among journalists. After being provided information about the…

    Politics

    Twitter fails to enforce policy for suspended users as many pro-BJP accounts reappear

    Pooja Chaudhuri & Pratik Sinha12th December 2020

    A hashtag celebrating the revival of a suspended account took Twitter by storm on November 27. ‘#TrueIndologyIsBack’ was used to welcome a handle by the same name, permanently suspended by…

    Society

    Photo of Turkish family from 1970s viral as old family photo of BioNtech co-founder Şahin

    Archit8th December 20208th December 2020

    On December 6, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told Business Standard that Pfizer and BioNtech are in the final stages of talks with the WHO to join…

    Politics

    No, Sikh man injured during farmers’ protest is not Captain PPS Dhillon (Retd.)

    Archit1st December 20202nd December 2020

    Amidst the recent farmers’ protest, Alt News has verified multiple claims where unrelated individuals were linked to the movement — Bilkis Bano and Dr Rajkumari Bansal — in an attempt…

    Politics

    Fact-checking political speech: Facebook’s myopic policy and inconsistent standard

    Pooja Chaudhuri26th November 202026th November 2020

    American actor-writer Sacha Baron Cohen had said in a scathing speech that had Facebook existed in the 1930s, the company would have permitted Hiter to run political ads on the…

    Media analysisPolitics

    Old unfounded reports of removal of JK from UN ‘list of disputes’ viral again

    Archit16th November 202016th November 2020

    Several social media users shared an October 29 article published by a website called Latest Laws (archived link). As per the article, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was removed from the…

    Politics

    Video from Romania falsely shared as Muslims spitting inside Paris metro train

    Aqib Pathan16th November 2020

    Sandeep Thakur, who identifies as head of social media and IT intellectual cell of BJP Delhi, shared a video on Twitter (archive link) with the claim that Muslim commuters spat…

    Religion

    Montage of scenic locations across China viral as ‘Kailash Mansarovar’

    Aqib Pathan & Anuradha Prasad11th November 202011th November 2020

    Social media users have recently been sharing a video across Twitter and Facebook, claiming that it shows the Indo-Tibetan border. The original Hindi caption alongside the viral clip reads, “This…

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