A video showing a woman being heckled and assaulted by a group of men while she tries to cover her head with a scarf is viral on social media. It…
Tragic deaths of mother & children in Purnea, Bihar, falsely viral as attack on Hindu family in Bangladesh
Trigger Warning: Murder, Suicide, Violence Against Children The story uses only screenshots in view of the graphic nature of the actual video. A video is viral on the social media…
Villagers placed stones on NTPC rail tracks after cows mowed down; photo peddled with false communal claims
An image of stones stacked on railway tracks is doing the rounds of social media. The picture shows a GPS map camera location of Mamoli, Uttar Pradesh. Social media users…
Iron rod on rail tracks: Two arrested identified as Sandeep, Bijendra; police reject conspiracy claims
A photograph has gone viral on social media showing an iron pole on railway tracks. It is being shared with the claim that the pole was intentionally placed by terrorists…
Akhilesh fled from the press? No viral video from 2023 shows him scaling locked gate to pay tribute to JP
A video clip of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is viral on social media. In the clip, Akhilesh is seen scaling what appears to be a boundary wall or a…
Video of Chhatra League leader being ‘punished’ at Eden College in Dhaka falsely viral as attack on Hindus
A video of a woman being made to do sit-ups while holding her ears is viral on social media with the claim that she is a Bangladeshi Hindu woman named…
Train accidents: The desperate search for a sabotage theory ends in YouTuber Gulzar Sheikh
At least 17 lives have been lost in train accidents in India in the last 42 days, with the latest mishap reported on the morning of Tuesday, July 30, near…
UP court staffer Vikas Gupta spitting into glass of water: 2018 video shared with ‘thook jihad’ claims
A video is viral on social media with the claim that a junior government office worker in Aligarh spat into a senior judicial officer’s glass of water. The video, which…
Viral screenshot of ‘tweet’ by Supriya Shrinate attacking Sonia Gandhi is fake
A screenshot of a tweet, purportedly by Congress leader Supriya Shrinate, is going viral on social media. The tweet has an image of Sonia Gandhi from yesteryears, and the following…
Police debunk false claims of Amethi woman’s death in queue to avail ‘Mahalakshmi’ benefits
Some social media users have claimed that a woman died after suffering a heatstroke in Amethi while she was waiting in a queue to avail benefits of the Congress’s Mahalakshmi…