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Fact check: Has Dr. Manmohan Singh been awarded as the ‘strongest PM in the world’?

Arjun Sidharth1st August 20182nd August 2018

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been bestowed with an award for being the strongest Prime Minister in the world, if social media is to be believed. The website Viral…

Fake: Photo of Rahul Gandhi checking out images of scantily clad women on his phone

Arjun Sidharth31st July 20181st August 2018

फोटो कभी झूट नहीं बोलती… देख लो राहुल गाँधी क्या कर रहा है (Photographs never lie…look at what Rahul Gandhi is doing- translated). With these words, a photograph of Congress President…

Cherry-picked photos, misleading narratives: How Postcard News, India Today got it wrong

Arjun Sidharth30th July 2018

“See the difference…” said a post by Facebook page Postcard English which juxtaposed two photographs- one showed former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and the other showed Prime Minister Narendra…

Times HOW strikes again, hoodwinks WION, Pakistani media and social media users

Arjun Sidharth30th July 2018

“If Pakistan can use Ballot Papers for it’s Elections, why can’t India? Using Ballot Papers instead of EVMs will help save us a lot of Electricity which gets wasted during…

Fact-check: Did Tamil Nadu Dy CM O.Panneerselvam bow before PM Modi?

Jignesh Patel28th July 2018

“This picture will break the hearts of the Bravehearts Tamilians who made the most protected guy in India too scared to drive. He had 2 fly on a chopper, break…

Viral: Article criticizing Gandhi family falsely ascribed to journalist Mark Tully

Jignesh Patel27th July 2018

An article purportedly written by Mark Tully, senior journalist and former Bureau Chief of BBC, New Delhi is circulating on social media. The article is titled “Post No Confidence Motion….

Spot the photoshop – Is there any similarity between the images of PM Modi and Hitler?

Pooja Chaudhuri25th July 2018

Captioned “spot the difference”, an image of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler posing with a child, is placed contiguous with an image of Prime Minister Modi, also with a child, and…

Masquerading as Govt initiatives, scam websites con readers with offers of free bicycles, helmets

Pooja Chaudhuri24th July 2018

“फ्री साईकिल वितरण योज़ना भारत सरकार |सभी लड़के और लड़कियों को मिलेगी मुफ्त में साइकिल सभी साइकिलें 15 अगस्त को बांटी जाएंगी, यहाँ से अपना फॉर्म भरे| http://Bharat-Sarkar.co/साइकिल|विनती:कृपया इस मैसेज को…

Morphed screenshot of Swara Bhasker’s tweet circulated on social media

Jignesh Patel20th July 2018

Actress Swara Bhasker has once again become a target for right-wing trolls on social media. A screenshot of a tweet ascribed to her was tweeted by a user Shash(@pokershash) which has…

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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