The coronavirus outbreak in India has left millions of migrant workers exposed to hunger and homelessness due to an ill-conceived nationwide lockdown imposed by the central government on March 24….
Video traced back to 2014 shared as recent clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers
A video of soldiers from two different armies engaged in a face-off is being circulated on social media with the claim that China is provoking India for war at the…
Verification: Speech targeting Muslim community by Kanpur medical college principal
Around June 1, a five-minute video of an interview of a woman recorded in the style of an exposé went viral. The woman appears to be an office-bearer and is…
Times Now airs old videos during broadcast on recent India-China border tensions
Tensions between India and China escalated after Chinese troops moved into sensitive areas along the Eastern Ladakh border. Times Now aired a broadcast on the skirmish on May 26. “The…
Video from Surat shared with false claim that Muslim man was forced to lick Hindu’s spit
Around May 30, several Twitter users posted a one-minute video in which a man can be seen slapping another in front of a car, making him do sit-ups and forcing…
Video from Mumbai’s KEM hospital shared as dead bodies piled up in Delhi hospital
On May 29, Delhi reported more than 1,000 coronavirus cases for the second consecutive day taking the total number of cases close to 17,400. In the backdrop of this, a…
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta quotes false WhatsApp forward in Supreme Court
On May 28, the Supreme Court heard the Suo Moto case regarding the plight of migrant labourers stranded in different parts of the country due to the lockdown. During the…
Video of landslide from Indonesia shared as India
As monsoons reach several parts of the country, a video of a landslide has been shared with the claim that it happened in Goa. Goa Madgaon Highway #LandSlide2020 @bhagwatnegi23 @praveen_gaur…
Photo of family’s suicide in Rajasthan in 2017 viral as Hindus murdered in Pakistan
Twitter user Aqib Mir who claims to be a “BJP worker” on his bio shared a photograph of a family of four hung from a pipe inside a tin shed….
Audio clip based on Facebook post from 2017 attributed to journalist Ravish Kumar
An audio clip of 4:46 minutes is doing the rounds on messaging applications like WhatsApp. A man can be heard talking about the lack of representation of the Muslim community…