“Scroll gives space to Pakistani author to blame India for tensions between the two countries,” claimed pro-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) propaganda website OpIndia in a piece from October 6, 2020….
Morphed tweet portrays actor Ali Fazal celebrating IB staffer Ankit Sharma’s death in Delhi riots
As the trailer for the second season of Hindi crime series ‘Mirzapur’ released on Tuesday, a section of Twitter users have been trending #BoycottMirzapur2. The show’s lead actor Ali Fazal…
BJP leader Dilip Ghosh shares old photo from Bihar as West Bengal farmers supporting PM Modi
“Farmers of Bengal, extending their gratitude towards Hon’ble Prime Minister,” tweeted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) West Bengal President Dilip Ghosh on October 7. Ghosh claimed that the picture featured in…
Fact-check: Did Deepika Padukone sport ‘I Stand With Indian Farmers’ t-shirt?
On September 26, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) interrogated actress Deepika Padukone over her alleged involvement in the drug probe linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. In the backdrop of…
Hathras case: Morphed Aaj Tak graphic portrays Yogi Adityanath supporting Thakur community
An alleged screenshot from a broadcast by news channel Aaj Tak has been making the rounds on social media the last few days. The Hindi headline in the viral image…
Old image of tunnel in US shared by media as ‘Atal Tunnel’ inaugurated by PM Modi
On October 3, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Atal Tunnel at Rohtang, Himachal Pradesh. The Hindu reported that the 9.02 km-long-tunnel, built by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), connects…
Unrelated video shared as Hathras victim being felicitated for academic success
A video of a young woman walking amongst a group of people bowing to her, touching her feet and offering flowers is doing the rounds on social media. It is…
Old video of Babul Supriyo’s convoy attacked shared as Health Minister Harsh Vardhan beaten
A video of a mob beating up a man adorning white clothes is being circulated widely on social media platforms. Several users have claimed that the person being thrashed is…
Video of AAP MLA Ajay Dutt’s skirmish with Delhi police viral as Rahul Gandhi
A 30-second video that shows policemen aggressively escorting a man is viral with Malayalam text that reads, “His father was the Prime Minister, father’s mother was the Prime Minister, and…
Viral: Morphed image of Yogi Adityanath watching Hathras victim’s cremation ‘live’
A 19-year-old Dalit woman, who was allegedly gang-raped by four upper-caste men in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, was cremated in the wee hours of September 30. Family members were locked inside…