The former chairman of Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board Wasim Rizvi recently filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking removal of 26 verses from the Quran which according to…
Canada thanked PM Modi for COVID vaccines? Misleading news run by Indian media
On March 11, ANI reported that a billboard was put up in Greater Toronto, Canada to thank Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing COVID-19 vaccines to the country. Billboards…
Food safety officer alleging BJP MLA Nand Kishor Gurjar attacked him is from 2019
A two-minute interview of a man is widespread with the claim that BJP MLA Nand Kishor Gurjar attacked him. It has also been alleged that the victim is a government…
The year that was: Misinformation trends of 2020
The word ‘unprecedented’ only mildly captures the year 2020. The coronavirus pandemic did more than confine the privileged inside their homes and leave the destitute to their fates. It has…
Fact-checking political speech: Facebook’s myopic policy and inconsistent standard
American actor-writer Sacha Baron Cohen had said in a scathing speech that had Facebook existed in the 1930s, the company would have permitted Hiter to run political ads on the…
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra: Propaganda powered with misinformation
Sambit Patra is the most visible spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is best known for his appearances as a party representative on television debates and snide remarks…
Amit Malviya: How the ringmaster of BJP’s propaganda machinery weaponises misinformation
On January 15, 2020, Amit Malviya, national in-charge of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) IT cell, shared a video of a random group of persons insinuating that the women of…
Article 370: Old mock drill video from Jharkhand viral as 30 Kashmiris shot dead
“لاشیں گرتی دیکھو مسلمانو 😢😢😢 نہتے کشمیریوں کی 30 لاشیں گرائ گئیں آج۔ (See dead bodies of Muslim, 30 Kashmiris were shot dead today -loose translation)”, reads the message posted…
Misleading videos of Rahul Gandhi viral with Twitter trend #RahulGandhiPagalHai
Since the early hours of February 13, a certain Twitter hashtag gained substantial momentum to share space with the top trends of the day on the micro-blogging website. #RahulGandhiPagalHai or ‘Rahul…
December round-up: Link between elections and rise in misinformation evident yet again
Assembly elections to five states were held in the month of December and expectedly, politics became the major theme of misinformation/disinformation throughout the month. Interestingly, the flurry of misinformation was…