“Fake Aadhaar available…Ib [Inbox] for deal,” reads one of the posts on a Facebook group “Help for Friends – Advertising Deals” or as its over 7,000 members call it “HFF”. HFF is…
Article outlining right-wing perspective on Kashmir falsely credited to author Ira Pande
‘Kashmir is an integral part of India’. I have heard this line parroted by leaders of all political hues. It has always sounded like an arbitrary statement designed to rebuff…
Did UP police lathicharge youth sitting on dharna outside CM Yogi Adityanath’s residence?
A video has been shared by multiple accounts on Facebook, which shows policemen lathicharging young men who have gathered inside what appears to be a Government office complex. The claim…
Fake ‘love jihad’ rate list putting price tag on non-Muslim women revived on social media
An alleged rate list with a price tag put on non-Muslim women with an exhortation to lure them and convert them to Islam is circulating on social media. The price…
Decoded: The business of Facebook pages – selling Modi, God, patriotism and more
Those of us even sparsely active on social media must have at some point of scrolling through an ocean of posts come across images of Indian army soldiers, with the…
No, Punya Prasun Bajpai is not joining NDTV as claimed on social media
The recent exit of senior journalists Punya Prasun Bajpai and Milind Khandekar from ABP News has become a subject of controversy. There has been intense amount of speculation that the…
Old video of child’s murder from Thailand construed as Indian, shared on Facebook
A disturbing video of a man hanging himself and a kid to a pole has been circulating on Facebook over the past few days. In the video, a man and a…
Gabbar Singh has a look-alike, but he is not from Karachi as reported by Pak and Indian media
Two photographs have gone viral on social media over the last few days, shared by all and sundry. They show a look-alike of Gabbar Singh, the iconic villian played by…
July round-up: Misinformation weaponised to attack minorities
The month of August saw the full range of misinformation and disinformation at play- fake quotations ascribed to public figures, photoshopped images targeting political leaders, misinformation with the objective of…
Fact check: Has Dr. Manmohan Singh been awarded as the ‘strongest PM in the world’?
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been bestowed with an award for being the strongest Prime Minister in the world, if social media is to be believed. The website Viral…