After the mahagatbandhan rally in Kolkata organized by the TMC, social media user Gaurav Pradhan tweeted a screenshot of a television news broadcast attributing a statement to West Bengal CM Mamata…
Fake news about Modi govt to print currency notes featuring former PM late Atal Bihari Vajpayee shared on social media
An article recently viral on social media suggests that the PM Modi-led government has taken a “historic step” of printing Indian currency notes featuring former prime minister late Atul Bihari…
Doctored video: Arvind Kejriwal did not claim that Modi-Amit Shah will ruin Pakistan if voted back to power
On January 19, Opposition leaders of 20 political parties came together for Mamata Banerjee’s ‘United India’ rally with a common purpose of taking on the BJP in the 2019 Lok…
#10YearsChallenge: BJP Karnataka tweets three sets of images, get all three wrong
On January 17, BJP Karnataka tweeted a collage of images drawing comparison between 2009 and 2019 to depict the positive changes in India brought about by the Modi-led government at…
Viral picture claims Sania Mirza dresses freely in India, but wears a Hijab in Pakistan. What’s the truth?
“जिन्हें भारत मे मे डर लगता है वो #सानियां_मिर्जा को देखें और सोचें। (Those who feel fearful about living in India should see Sania Mirza and contemplate -translated)” is a…
BJP Bihar passes off a 2009 image as its development project in the last 5 years
The official Twitter handle of BJP Bihar shared purported before and after pictures of a stretch of road to depict infrastructural development achieved by the state government in the last…
Images of PM Modi taking a dip during 2004 Kumbh Mela shared as recent
A set of images featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking a holy dip in a river has gone viral on social media. It is claimed that the Prime Minister took…
BJP uses misleading images to showcase Western Peripheral Expressway
The official Twitter handle of the Bharatiya Janata Party tweeted two purported images of the Western Peripheral Expressway. The image on the left intended to depict a barren land, while…
Truth about Priyanka Chaturvedi’s photo with a child and a man who claims to be his ‘uncle’
On January 13, Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi tweeted a photograph with a child saying that he walked up to her as a fan who has watched her debates. Within hours,…
Old, unrelated video of woman dancing shared as that of Congress worker Shilpi Singh
“यह महिला कांग्रेस की बड़ी नेता शिल्पी सिंह हैं” (This woman is a tall Congress leader named Shilpi Singh. -translated), reads a caption prefixed to a video of a woman…