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Old tampered video showing Barack Obama tossing away Melania Trump’s gift resurfaces

Pooja Chaudhuri10th June 202011th June 2020

A video is circulating on social media in the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter protest in the United States sparked by African American citizen George Floyd’s death due to…

Times of India shares 2017 video of police brutality in China as recent based on social media claims

Archit9th June 202011th June 2020

On June 9, The Times on India shared a one-minute video that shows a police officer pinning down a woman, carrying a child, with brute force in broad daylight. Without…

False media reports claim Jyotiraditya Scindia removed ‘BJP’ from his Twitter bio

Priyanka Jha9th June 20209th June 2020

A section of the media claimed that BJP leader and former union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has removed ‘BJP’ from his Twitter account and written ‘public servant’ and ‘cricket enthusiast’. Some…

Video shot ahead of 2019 elections falsely viral as Sunny Deol thrown out of Gurudwara

Kinjal6th June 202018th August 2021

A video has been shared with the claim that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sunny Deol was thrown out of a Gurudwara. बीजेपी सांसद सन्नी देओल को गुरुद्वारे से धक्के…

Irresponsible media reports spark anger against Muslims and Kerala in elephant death case

Pooja Chaudhuri4th June 20205th June 2020

The death of a pregnant elephant in Kerala after she was allegedly “fed” a pineapple stuffed with firecrackers sparked massive outrage in the country. The tragic incident started trending on…

No, this is not an image of Chinese soldiers helping Indian army men injured in avalanche

Archit4th June 2020

On May 10, The Hindu reported that Indian and Chinese troops had a face-off near Pangong Tso lake in Eastern Ladhak on May 5 and 6, followed by the second…

Video of Maradona lookalike in 2015 movie shared as actual footage of the footballer

Pooja Chaudhuri3rd June 20203rd June 2020

A video of an obese man kicking a tennis ball has been widely shared on social media with messages claiming that the man is Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona. Please tell…

Viral: Fake quotes by world leaders offering support to India over tensions with China

Archit3rd June 20203rd June 2020

Since the last three weeks of May, the India-China border dispute continues in the eastern parts of Ladhak. In the backdrop on this, Mahesh Vikram Hegde’s Postcard News shared an…

Video from Mumbai’s KEM hospital shared as dead bodies piled up in Delhi hospital

Jignesh Patel30th May 20202nd June 2020

On May 29, Delhi reported more than 1,000 coronavirus cases for the second consecutive day taking the total number of cases close to 17,400. In the backdrop of this, a…

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…

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Amit Malviya says earth rotates clockwise, makes false claim about Rahul Gandhi’s Narmada Ghat aarti

After social media outrage, ‘Rashid Khan’ justifying Shraddha murder turns out to be Vikas Kumar