A video of an autorickshaw breaking down while the pregnant woman inside the vehicle is crying in pain is viral on social media. The driver motions other vehicles on the…
Unrelated video shared as crash-landing of Gen Bipin Rawat’s chopper
On December 8, 2021, 13 people including CDS Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat, and 11 others died when their helicopter crashed in Tamil Nadu’s Konnur area. Against this backdrop,…
Photo from Nikah ceremony shared as Quranic verses read in Sahitya Sammelan in Maharashtra
BJP leader Hariom Pandey recently shared an image claiming it was taken at a literature festival in Maharashtra. He claimed that literary festivals are now being commenced with a reading…
How disinformation led to the attack on missionary school in MP by right-wing groups
On December 6, members of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal vandalised St Joseph Senior Higher Secondary in Madhya Pradesh’s Ganj Basoda, claiming that the school “converted” Hindu students…
Fake chart shows COVID-19 variant “timeline” predicting release dates
Several social media users have shared an image that shows two columns — ‘Cepa/variante’ (Spanish for strain/variant) and ‘lanzamiento’ (Spanish for launching). The first column lists 22 Greek alphabets starting…
Image from Gujarat shared as saint attacked in UP when Mulayam Singh was in power
Twitter user @Balram_Ayodhya tweeted an image of a police officer pulling a man by his hair and wrote, “It wasn’t a Jihadi who was pulling our saints by their hair……
Old video falsely shared as Gen Bipin Rawat’s chopper crash
On December 8, the Indian Air Force tweeted shocking news that an IAF Mi-17V5 helicopter, with Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on board, met with an accident near…
Misleading, exaggerated claims about UP’s unemployment rate, EoDB and GSDP surface
On November 16, BJP supporter Rishi Bagree jotted down Uttar Pradesh’s purported ranking on various performance indicators such as unemployment rate, ease of doing business (EoDB) and gross state domestic…
Old video from Colombia falsely viral as Indian army shot civilians in Nagaland in self-defense
On December 4, a special unit of the army mistakenly opened fire at a pick-up van carrying coal miners from the Tiru area to their village in Nagaland’s Mon district…
False anti-Muslim spin added to attack on college girl in West Bengal
Pro-BJP and communal propaganda platform Kreately tweeted two images — one that shows a woman with a head injury and another picture of a man. The text on the image…