Activist Saket Gokhale posted a tweet thread on July 23 alleging that the Election Commission of India “hired” the IT cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to manage their…
Video of truck crashing into helicopter in Brazil viral as Amritsar
Several Facebook and Twitter users shared a 30-second video of a truck crashing into a helicopter’s blades on the street. Social media claims that this incident happened in Amritsar, Punjab….
Old image from Pakistan shared as condition of school in India
Several social media users have shared an image of school children sitting on mud. It’s claimed that the image is from India. Twitter user @shaista04444 posted the viral image. It…
CCTV footage of man stabbed to death in Delhi’s Madipur shared with false Muslim angle
A CCTV clip of a man brutally stabbed by a group of youths has been shared by several Facebook and Twitter users. As per social media claims, the victim was…
Video from Haryana falsely shared as caste-based violence in UP
A video of a group of men brutally thrashing a man with lathis is widely circulating on social media with the claim that a mob of Thakurs beat up a man from…
Video of patients crowding cancer hospital in Patna shared with false claims
A 30-second video that shows an over-crowded waiting area of a hospital has gone viral. Everyone in the video can be seen wearing a mask. Twitter user @RenukaJain6 shared the…
Priyanka Gandhi shares old images of Assam, Bihar flood as recent
Several parts of the country are facing severe deluge. Over 100 people have died in Assam and more than 30 have lost their lives in incidents related to heavy rainfall…
Prathap NM, hailed as ‘drone scientist’, passes off German and Japanese drones as his own
A young man from Karnataka Prathap NM was hailed in Kannada media as “drone” Prathap for claiming to have extraordinary achievements. A few English websites like Deccan Herald and India…
Fact-check: Was the bridge that collapsed in Bihar part of Rs 264 crore Sattarghat project?
On July 16, the country woke up to the news of Sattarghat bridge in Bihar collapsing a month after it was inaugurated. Flooding in Gandak river damaged the bridge reportedly…
India Today, Tribune fall for fictional story of teacher bullied online, share it as ‘news’
A ‘story’ about a teacher who was bullied by his students during an online class on a Zoom call was published by India Today, The Tribune and IB Times. Hindi media…