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Disabled Muslim man hounded for accidentally dropping currency, accused of spreading coronavirus

Mohammed Zubair & Kinjal27th April 2020

A CCTV footage showing a Muslim man in a petrol pump reaching for his pocket to make a payment and dropping something on the ground is massively viral on social…

Video of currency notes in Indore falsely viral as ‘Muslim conspiracy’ to spread coronavirus

Kinjal20th April 2020

A video where a few policemen are seen picking up notes with sticks from a roadside and placing them inside a bag is doing the rounds on social media. It…

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…

Old map of India shared to praise PM Modi on tackling coronavirus

Archit17th April 202021st June 2020

A map of India which compares Indian states with various countries on the basis of population has gone viral. Ram Madhav, national general secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party, was among…

No, Delhi Health Minister did not say no one from Nizamuddin Markaz tested positive for COVID-19

Archit15th April 202015th April 2020

A 16-second clip of Delhi’s Health Minister Satyendra Jain has gone viral on social media. On April 14, Facebook page ‘Mohsin Rfi Khan sp’ posted the viral video along with…

Image of Muslims offering namaz on rooftops in groups is from Dubai

Jignesh Patel & Mohammed Zubair14th April 202014th April 2020

An image of a group of people offering namaz together on the terrace of buildings is going viral on social media. Film director Vivek Agnihotri tweeted the image and asked,…

Mock drill video from Bihar’s Hajipur jail shared as cop suffering from coronavirus

Ketan14th April 202014th April 2020

A video of a policeman unable to walk straight falling on the ground is viral on social media. The cop is seen coughing and sneezing profusely. His fellow policemen come…

Old video of assault due to personal enmity in UP viral with false communal narrative

Kinjal14th April 202014th April 2020

On April 13, Twitter user Neha Rathore tweeted a two-minute video in which a man is tied a tree and brutally thrashed by a group on men. The video is…

False: Rahul Kanwal’s claim about Trump suggesting early access of COVID-19 vaccine to India

Sam Jawed12th April 202012th April 2020

Rahul Kanwal, News director of India Today, claimed that President Donald Trump has suggested that India could have early access to COVID-19 vaccines being developed in the US since PM…

Death of health worker in MP falsely communalised as attack by Muslims in UP

Kinjal9th April 20209th April 2020

An image of an injured woman is being shared on social media with the claim that she is a doctor who died after she was attacked by “Islamic jihadis” in…

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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