Since September 3, several Twitter and Facebook users have posted multiple videos where members of right-wing fringe groups Sanskriti Bachao Manch and Bajrang Dal are moral policing children. They can…
Old video of vandalism by football fans in Switzerland revived as violence by Muslims in WB
On 21st March, in a brutally violent incident in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, eight houses were attacked and set on fire, killing eight people, including women and children. This was…
Old video of women falling into sewage drain in Pakistan shared as Delhi
Recently, a video of two women falling into a big open sewage drain on the street has going viral online. Social media users have been sharing this video suggesting that…
Fact-check: Saddam Hussein’s dead body did not decompose after 12 years of burial?
A 2:20-minute-long video reportedly showing former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has recently gone viral on social media. Users are claiming that his body was exhumed “12 years” after his burial…
Fake Twitter accounts created in Dr Kafeel Khan and his wife Shabista Khan’s name
Dr Kafeel Khan was released from prison on September 1 after spending 200 days in Mathura jail. The Allahabad high court quashed his detention under the National Security Act (NSA)…
Journalist Rana Ayyub targeted with fake tweet in her name on Pranab Mukherjee’s death
A screenshot of a supposed tweet by Journalist Rana Ayyub is viral on social media. It is being claimed that Ayyub put out an insensitive tweet on former President Pranab…
Photos of two unrelated cases viral to manufacture a false ‘love Jihad’ story
Twitter handle ‘@BJPBalochistan’ shared three pictures on August 27 along with the claim that a Hindu girl died in a ‘love Jihad’ incident. Two out of the three pictures are…
Old incident revived with false claim of Muslim men attacking cop in Chennai
Twitter user ‘Raji Hindustani’ shared two photographs and claimed that Chennai police inspector Akilan was attacked by three Muslim youths in Chennai’s Tiruvallikeni. The user added that the youths were…
Explosion in UAE after first official flight lands from Israel? No, false claim viral
On September 1, BBC reported that “the first official flight from Israel to the United Arab Emirates has landed, a major step in normalizing relations after the announcement of a…
Images of charred idol of Hindu deity Kali in West Bengal viral with baseless communal angle
On September 2, several Facebook and Twitter users shared an image of a charred idol of Hindu deity Kali. As per social media claims, the idol is from a temple…