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Old, unrelated video viral as BJP leader Inayat Hussain assaulted for supporting CAA, NRC

Mohammed Zubair25th January 202025th January 2020

A video is viral with the claim that BJP leader and ex-chairman of the Haj committee Inayat Hussain was smeared with ink and beaten with slippers in Indore for extending…

Old video from MP viral as women CAA protesters fighting over distribution of money

Kinjal24th January 202024th January 2020

A non-violent sit-in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) by women at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh has been going on since December 15, 2019. On January 15, a month into…

JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh faked head injury? Screenshot of old broadcast shared with false claim

Jignesh Patel & Pooja Chaudhuri24th January 202025th January 2020

On January 20, Twitter user Anil Jacob posted a screenshot of a TV9 Bharatvarsh broadcast featuring Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Aishe Ghosh. He claimed that injury marks…

Old video from Manipur shared as women receiving cash in the backdrop of CAA protests

Jignesh Patel24th January 202024th January 2020

A video of a man purportedly handing out cash to a group of women, many of whom are holding the flag of Congress party, is widely circulating on social media…

CAA Protests: Morphed image claims Shaheen Bagh protesters paid Rs 500 per day

Archit23rd January 2020

Several social media users and pages have shared an image which shows women standing in front of a banner which reads ‘Fix rate 500/ day 7 pm to 12 pm…

RSS member’s photo falsely shared as Mangaluru airport bomb suspect Aditya Rao

Pooja Chaudhuri23rd January 202023rd January 2020

A photograph of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Prabhakar Bhat with a member of the organisation is widely circulating across social media platforms. It is being claimed that the member…

Robbery attempt communalised as Kali idol vandalised in Bengal’s Siliguri

Pooja Chaudhuri & Nibedita Sen22nd January 202023rd January 2020

A set of photographs is viral on social media with the claim that an Idol of Hindu deity Kali in Gate Bazar Kali Mandir, Siliguri was demolished. Twitter user Roop…

Photo of Kanhaiya Kumar falsely shared as celebrating death of 76 CRPF soldiers in 2010

Nibedita Sen21st January 202021st January 2020

A photograph of former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students, including Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya is circulating on Twitter with the claim that the death of 76 Central…

Video from 2018 falsely viral as Indian Constitution burnt by RSS members

Pooja Chaudhuri21st January 202021st January 2020

A video is massively viral with the claim that members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) burnt a copy of the Indian Constitution. One @IncKinju shared the clip on Twitter with…

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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