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    NewsPolitics

    Solicitor General Tushar Mehta quotes false WhatsApp forward in Supreme Court

    Sam Jawed30th May 2020

    On May 28, the Supreme Court heard the Suo Moto case regarding the plight of migrant labourers stranded in different parts of the country due to the lockdown. During the…

    NewsReligion

    Fact-check: Did TN govt direct temples to pay Rs 10cr to fund 5,450 tonne free rice to mosques?

    Archit16th May 202019th May 2020

    On April 29, OpIndia (archive link) published an article with the headline — ‘5,450 tonnes of free rice to 2,985 mosques, 47 temples have to pay rupees ₹10 crores: Tamil…

    News

    Viral message falsely claims Mumbai and Pune to be under military lockdown, CM debunks rumour

    Archit9th May 2020

    On May 5, IAS officer Rajiv Kumar Gupta announced that “[in] the entire AMC [Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation] area, all shops and home delivery services except milk and medicine shall remain…

    Media analysis

    IANS falls for satire on Pakistani PM Imran Khan reading COVID-19 chart upside down

    Jignesh Patel8th May 20208th May 2020

    News agency Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) published a report titled, “Imran Khan reads chart upside down, claims Covid curve flattening.” The report claimed that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan made…

    Media analysisPolitics

    Moneycontrol, News18 misquote economist Abhijit Banerjee on UPA policies, former clarifies

    Jignesh Patel7th May 20207th May 2020

    On May 4, Finacial news website Moneycontrol.com quoted Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banjeree saying, “The real problem in the short run is that the weak UPA policies were embraced by the…

    Media analysis

    Dainik Jagran, Punjab Kesari misreport youth in Punjab throws notes laced with spit

    Priyanka Jha4th May 20204th May 2020

    On April 25, Twitter user Hatinder Singh posted a video report by ‘Daily Post Punjabi’, with the message, “In Phillaur, Punjab, This Man Was Caught Throwing Notes On The Road…

    News

    Fact-check: Did a 26-member Muslim family test positive in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri?

    Archit29th April 2020

    On April 18, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal gave a 10-minute speech on the coronavirus situation in New Delhi. It was also live-streamed on YouTube. At the 2:00 mark, Kejriwal…

    Media analysisReligion

    Zee News publishes 2015 story with false claim of human faeces served to ‘non-Muslims’

    Priyanka Jha27th April 20201st July 2021

    A year-old report of two restaurant owners in the UK booked for serving food mixed with human faeces to their customers have been revived on social media. It has been…

    Media analysisNews

    Did Germany send £130 billion bill to China for ‘coronavirus damages’?

    Archit22nd April 202022nd April 2020

    Express.co.uk, the digital arm of the UK-based Daily Express and Sunday Express, published a report with a controversial headline which read “Germany sends China £130billion bill for ‘coronavirus damages’ –…

    Politics

    News24 shares old broadcast of namaz at Jama Masjid multiple times to portray mass gathering

    Pooja Chaudhuri18th April 202018th April 2020

    On Friday, April 17, Hindi media outlet News24 shared a video on Facebook titled, “कोरोना ने बदला इबादत की तरीका,दिल्ली के जामा मस्जिद का माहौल क्या है?” This translates to…

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