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Fact-check: TV9’s exclusive report on a ‘secret underground tunnel’ in Nizamuddin Markaz

Pooja Chaudhuri & Mohammed Zubair2nd May 20202nd May 2020

The novel coronavirus outbreak has cost lakhs of lives worldwide. However, as countries across the globe observe lockdowns to flatten the curve and scientists look for a cure, normalcy doesn’t…

No, this video doesn’t show North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s funeral

Jignesh Patel30th April 20202nd May 2020

A video of a dead body placed inside a coffin surrounded with flowers is doing the rounds on social media. It is being claimed that this video confirms the death…

Viral video is not Rishi Kapoor’s video on the night before he passed away, media misreports

Pooja Chaudhuri30th April 202030th April 2020

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor passed away on the morning of April 30. Soon after, former actor and Congress leader Nagma shared a video of Rishi Kapoor claiming, “Clip of last…

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…

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’ –…

ABP News v/s Rubika Liyaquat: 180-degree turn on communalising migrant crisis near Bandra station

Jignesh Patel16th April 202016th April 2020

On April 14, reports of a mass gathering of migrants near Mumbai’s Bandra station dominated the news cycle throughout the day. Marathi news channel ABP Majha’s reporter Rahul Kulkarni was…

India TV uses 2017 video to falsely claim Islamic preacher provoked Jamaatis to ‘spit’

Pooja Chaudhuri16th April 202018th April 2020

The narrative around coronavirus pandemic has taken a turn for the worse in India with a majority of social media users and mainstream media outlets not only pinning the blame…

Video of women spitting inside houses in Rajasthan’s Kota given false Muslim angle

Priyanka Jha16th April 202016th April 2020

On April 13, several media outlets carried reports on a CCTV footage of a group of women spitting in front of houses in Rajasthan’s Kota. Mainstream media reported it as…

Dead man alive: Republic’s coverage of a coronavirus patient from MP gets several facts wrong

Pooja Chaudhuri14th April 202024th December 2020

During an April 8 broadcast, in the usual Republic Bharat mannerism, channel anchors Shweta Shrivastav and Shweta Tripathi yelled a piece of ‘breaking news’ onto television screens. As the camera…

Communal attack in Bawana shared with false claim of Muslim man injecting fruits with spittle

Archit9th April 20209th April 2020

A two-minute video which shows a group of men aggressively interrogating a man in a red shirt is widely circulating on social media. The men interrogating in Haryanvi ask –…

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Victim blaming on social media: How Shraddha murder case exposed the patriarchal core of Right Wing

Aaj Tak, India TV, Jagran fell for Elon Musk’s joke; Twitter didn’t hire back two fired employees