In a historic first, India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s Vikram lander touched down near the moon’s little-explored south pole at 6.04 pm on August 23. Following the incident, a clip from a…
France riots: Unrelated & old photos, AI-images flood social, mainstream media
On June 27, the French police shot 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk near Paris after he failed to stop when ordered to by traffic police. As per the news reports, the incident…
France knife-attack: Suspect a Syrian Christian; False ‘Jihad Watch’ report calling him a Muslim viral in India
A few weeks back, a video surfaced on social media, which showed a knife-wielding man stabbing people, including toddlers and an elderly man, in a playground in Annecy, France. The…
Right Wing users falsely claim Rahul Gandhi deleted Savarkar tweets, then delete their own tweets
Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s grandson Ranjit Savarkar on Monday, March 27, said he would file an FIR against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi if the latter did not apologize for…
Media misreport: Nobel committee member did not say Modi biggest contender for Peace Prize
Several media outlets recently reported that the deputy leader of the Nobel Prize committee, Asle Toje, who is in India at present, had called Prime Minister Modi the ‘biggest contender…
Scene from TV series viral with claims of ‘Islamization’ of school students in Aus
A video purportedly showing non-Muslim students in an Australian school being taught how to pray in a mosque is viral on social media with users alleging that the ‘furious parents’…
5-yr-old video edited with provocative song shared widely to target Muslims
A video that has gone viral on social media shows people in a crowd moving forward on a road with swords in hand. A song playing on a loudspeaker can…
Unrelated video of soldier’s last rites viral in context of Pulwama anniversary
The Pulwama attack took place on February 14, 2019, in which terrorists attacked a convoy of Central Reserved Police Force jawans in Jammu and Kashmir killing 40 personnel. This year…
Media reports that Pakistan denied airspace to IAF aid plane to Turkey are false
On February 6, an earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and western Syria. Its epicenter was in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep. The BBC reported at 13.46 IST on…
No, renaming of UAE area to ‘Hind City’ has got nothing to do with Hindus or Indians
On January 29, Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum issued instructions to rename Al Menhad area and its surroundings ‘Hind City’….