A CCTV clip of a group of young men participating in a birthday celebration is viral on social media. The video shows the youth giving the birthday boy ‘birthday bumps’…
Viral video of crops being injected is scripted, ‘poisoning people’ claims are baseless
A video of three young men standing in a field and injecting something into crops has been making the rounds on social media. The person filming the footage is heard…
Groom beaten up for dowry demand: Scripted comedy video shared by news channels, journalists
A video has gone viral on social media, in which a man dressed as a groom is being beaten up with a sandal by an elderly man who is supposedly…
YouTube fails to moderate scripted child-kidnapping videos stoking fear and making money
Trigger Warning: Violent Content. Viewer discretion is advised. Over the past few months, rumours of child kidnapping have spread like wildfire in many parts of the country based on purported…
Fact-check: Child kidnapping video viral on WhatsApp is scripted
A 30-second video showing three men haggling over money and apparently unconscious children lying around them is viral with the claim that the clip is yet another incident of child-kidnapping….
Viral video of Muslim pedestrian helping Hindu woman cover herself with burqa is scripted
A video of a woman walking out of a temple while accompanied by a man is widely circulating on social media. In the clip, the pair get out of the…
Inside the world of scripted ‘CCTV’ videos on Facebook
Earlier this year, novelist Paulo Coelho tweeted a video from India. The video allegedly shows CCTV footage wherein a physically challenged person is trying to reset a tricycle’s chain on…
Video of young women drinking in public is scripted, misused to target Delhi CM
A video featuring two young women consuming alcohol in public is viral on social media. The video shows a youth recording the women while policing them about liquor consumption in…
This ‘good Samaritan’ video is a scripted drama
A video of an autorickshaw breaking down while the pregnant woman inside the vehicle is crying in pain is viral on social media. The driver motions other vehicles on the…
News channels run doctored video of farmer leader Dallewal’s statement on Modi, question movement’s agenda
A video related to the farmers’ movement is viral on social media in which farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal states that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity graph has skyrocketed after…