A video alleging fresh lockdown has been imposed in five states has been recently making the rounds on Facebook and Twitter. On November 22, Facebook user Khurram Siddiqui posted this…
Old video from Karachi viral as fallen billboard injures bikers during Cyclone Nivar in Tamil Nadu
A video of a billboard falling on a biker during heavy storms is circulating on social media in the wake of a Cyclone Nivar. People of Chennai, Kancheepuram, Chengalpet, Thiruvallur,…
Prasar Bharati, DD News tweet 2017 video as flooding due to Cyclone Nivar in Chennai’s Marina beach
Tropical Cyclone Nivar made landfall near Puducherry in the early hours of November 26, bringing heavy downpour to the union territory and neighbouring Tamil Nadu where three people have died….
Fact-checking political speech: Facebook’s myopic policy and inconsistent standard
American actor-writer Sacha Baron Cohen had said in a scathing speech that had Facebook existed in the 1930s, the company would have permitted Hiter to run political ads on the…
Graphic images of unsolved murder in Haryana viral with baseless ‘love jihad’ spin
Last month, several Twitter and Facebook users shared three images of a woman’s dead body found in a suitcase. The images are graphic, viewer discretion is advised. The viral text associated…
No, this is not a ‘rare’ video of young Narendra Modi doing Yoga
A black and white video of a man doing yoga has been making the rounds on social media. “Identify this ascetic who later become Prime Minister. A rare and amazing…
Morphed tweet claims BJP announced alliance with AIMIM for West Bengal elections
Twitter user Deepak Shukla recently shared an alleged tweet by the BJP announcing an alliance with the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) for next year’s West Bengal assembly elections. In the…
Spoof video from 15 years ago falsely viral as Volkswagen ad ‘mocks’ Muslims
BJP spokesperson Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga tweeted (archive link) a 30-second clip and wrote: “Terrorist Commercial Ad by Volkswagen” Interesting? The video shows a man in a suicide vest drive…
Clip from 1963 movie viral yet again as ‘real’ footage of Savarkar in Andaman prison
A 1.39-minute video is viral on social media in which a man can be seen inside a prison cell while a voice-over narrates his feelings. Many users claimed that the…
No, ‘miracle’ rain did not pour only on Tamil Nadu’s Nataraja Temple
A video has been shared as a “miracle” depicting rain falling only on Nataraja Temple in Tamil Nadu while surrounding areas remain dry. The tweet by @LostTemple7 drew over 1…