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Congress IT cell head tweets photoshopped image drawing a parallel between PM Modi and Hitler

Arjun Sidharth29th April 201929th April 2019

“What are your thoughts?”, tweeted Divya Spandana, social media head of the Congress party, along with two photographs. The photograph on the left is that of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler,…

Arrest of Zakir Naik’s aide in Malaysia falsely linked to terror attack in Sri Lanka

Pooja Chaudhuri29th April 2019

Multiple images of a man photographed with Islamic preacher Zakir Naik are being circulated on social media with the claim that he is the Sri Lanka suicide bomber. A former…

Video from Sri Lanka viral as burqa-clad man caught in polling booth in India

Alt News Desk29th April 2019

A previously debunked video of a burqa clad man has resurfaced with a different narrative. A Twitter user who goes by the name of Renuka Jain Chowkidar has tweeted the…

Old video of BJP WB chief heckled revived with false anti-Rohingya narrative

Jignesh Patel27th April 201920th March 2021

Ahead of the upcoming elections in West Bengal, RBI director and RSS ideologue S Gurumuthy shared a video of a crowd heckling members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including…

Congressman speaks out against Gandhi family? No, it is a staged video

Arjun Sidharth27th April 2019

“Finally, a congressman speaks…and speaks the truth!! It is time for @INCIndia to think about what they want Slavery of @RahulGandhi@priyankagandhi or NATION.” The above message has been tweeted by…

No, a BJP candidate from West Bengal did not dress-up as Hanuman

Pooja Chaudhuri27th April 2019

TMC supporter Garga Chatterjee tweeted photographs of a man dressed as Hanuman and said that he was “Jagannath Sarkar, BJP MP candidate from Ranaghat” in West Bengal (archive). Several other…

Gujarat Congress tweets 2014 image of Ganges to target BJP

Pooja Chaudhuri26th April 201930th April 2019

Gujarat Congress tweeted a collage of river Ganga in an attempt to showcase how the BJP advertises a ‘clean’ Ganga but in reality, the river is a hotbed of pollutants….

2017 Gujarat video viral as “Rohingyas and Bangladeshi mistreat BJP workers in Bengal”

Pooja Chaudhuri26th April 2019

A video viral on social media is being circulated with the claim that it depicts “Rohingyas and Bangladeshi refugees” mistreating BJP workers when they passed their settlements in West Bengal….

BJP Bengal candidate tweets incident from Bihar as “TMC goons attack BJP worker”; deletes later

Pooja Chaudhuri26th April 201926th April 2019

BJP’s Krishnanagar candidate Kalyan Chaubey, a former Indian football player, tweeted a video of two men assaulting a woman and subsequently hacking another man with a sickle. He claimed that…

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Dipu Chandra Das’s ‘last video’? Old, unrelated clip from Dhaka falsely viral in Mymensingh ‘lynching’ case

Muslim man cooking Biriyani with sewage water? It’s an AI-generated video