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No, this is not PM Modi and Jashodaben’s wedding photograph

Mohammed Zubair & Aqib Pathan16th December 202016th December 2020

On 15 December, journalist Swati Chaturvedi tweeted an image of PM Modi with the caption, ”Does this look like a forced child marriage took you? Yet, Modi never declared this…

Indian Railways ‘sold’ to Adani? No, images of ads on trains viral with false claim

Archit15th December 202016th December 2020

In the second week of December, a video that shows Fortune Atta’s ad on an Indian Railway locomotive was widely shared with the claim Adani had taken over Indian Railways….

Congress leaders falsely claim Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport renamed to ‘Adani Airports’

Pooja Chaudhuri15th December 202015th December 2020

“Ahmedabad airport has been renamed from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to Adani,” tweeted MP Congress with a photograph of a billboard that says ‘Adani | Airports’. The tweet drew over 3,000…

Digitally-created image viral as Shahrukh Khan’s lookalike discovered in Kashmir

Archit14th December 2020

An image of a young boy who looks strikingly like Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan is circulating on social media with the claim that the boy is from Kashmir. Jammu &…

Images of protests held in the past shared as massive crowd at farmers’ protest

Archit14th December 2020

Farmers have been protesting against the centre’s new agricultural laws since the past few months. As per a report by The Indian Express, ‘Bharat Bandh’ strike observed by the farmers…

Image from 2014 viral as PM Modi meets Ambani’s grandchild at hospital

Aqib Pathan14th December 202014th December 2020

Industrialist Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Foundation chairwoman Nita Ambani recently became grandparents. An image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the couple is massively viral on social media. It…

Twitter fails to enforce policy for suspended users as many pro-BJP accounts reappear

Pooja Chaudhuri & Pratik Sinha12th December 2020

A hashtag celebrating the revival of a suspended account took Twitter by storm on November 27. ‘#TrueIndologyIsBack’ was used to welcome a handle by the same name, permanently suspended by…

Old, unrelated video shared as Sikh family praising PM Modi amid farmers’ protest

Kinjal12th December 202012th December 2020

Farmers have been protesting for several months now against three agricultural laws passed by the parliament in August. Amid the ongoing demonstrations, a video of a Sikh family is making…

Army PRO denies viral claim of troops, artillery deployed in Delhi to quash farmers’ protest

Archit11th December 202012th December 2020

As the farmers’ protest enters the 16th day, thousands of more protestors have camped at Singhu, Tikri, Ghazipur and Chilla (Delhi-Noida) border points. On December 5, Republic TV reported that…

Pro-Pak, pro-Khalistan chants at 2019 anti-Modi rally in US revived amid farmers’ protest

Archit & Aqib Pathan11th December 202011th December 2020

Canadian-Pakistani author Tarek Fatah posted a video of Sikh men chanting pro-Pakistan and pro-Khalistan slogans and wrote, “Sikhs in London chant Allah-O-Akbar. Kashmir banega Pakistan, Punjab banega Khalistan.” The video…

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‘Azadi’ slogans in Uttarakhand not a call for ‘Ghazwa-E-Hind’ but protests over paper leak for state recruitment exam

Sonam Wangchuk’s 2020 photo with Muhammad Yunus viral after Ladakh violence with misleading claims