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Verification: Speech targeting Muslim community by Kanpur medical college principal

Archit1st June 2020

Around June 1, a five-minute video of an interview of a woman recorded in the style of an exposé went viral. The woman appears to be an office-bearer and is…

Video from Surat shared with false claim that Muslim man was forced to lick Hindu’s spit

Archit30th May 202030th May 2020

Around May 30, several Twitter users posted a one-minute video in which a man can be seen slapping another in front of a car, making him do sit-ups and forcing…

Photo of family’s suicide in Rajasthan in 2017 viral as Hindus murdered in Pakistan

Pooja Chaudhuri29th May 202029th May 2020

Twitter user Aqib Mir who claims to be a “BJP worker” on his bio shared a photograph of a family of four hung from a pipe inside a tin shed….

Audio clip based on Facebook post from 2017 attributed to journalist Ravish Kumar

Jignesh Patel29th May 20204th January 2021

An audio clip of 4:46 minutes is doing the rounds on messaging applications like WhatsApp. A man can be heard talking about the lack of representation of the Muslim community…

Video from Bihar shared as UP incident where man refused to eat food cooked by Dalit

Ketan27th May 2020

A video of a person kicking the food kept on a table while another man yells at a woman standing in front of them is doing the rounds on social…

Pornographic image used to target JMI student Ladeeda Farzana

Pooja Chaudhuri25th May 20202nd November 2021

A Twitter handle @GahlotKanpur whose bio reads “active BJP worker” shared two photographs — an image of Muslim women talking to AIMIM chief Asaddudin Owaisi juxtaposed with a picture of…

Gopalganj case: OpIndia blames victim’s father, accuses him of lying to give itself a clean chit

Priyanka Jha25th May 202025th May 2020

In an article published on May 9, OpIndia claimed that a 15-year-old boy Rohit was sacrificed in a mosque in Bihar’s Gopalganj. Our investigation found that the story was false….

Pakistani man’s beard, eyebrows shaved for molesting minors, video viral in India

Pooja Chaudhuri23rd May 202023rd May 2020

A video of a crowd surrounding a man, shaving off his facial hair including his eyebrows, is circulating on social media. It is being claimed that locals caught the man,…

Video from Pakistan shared as people flouting lockdown for Eid in Hyderabad and Delhi

Kinjal21st May 202021st May 2020

A 24-second video of a crowded market has gone viral on social media with the claim that Muslims flouted the lockdown for shopping. It is noteworthy that Eid is set…

No, temples are not charged more for electricity than mosques and churches in Tamil Nadu

Archit21st May 202021st May 2020

In the past few days, several Twitter users have posted an illustration that claims that electricity charges for temples are higher than what mosques and churches have to pay in…

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

Kerala man assaulting child in viral clip is a Muslim, contrary claims on social media are false