A video of police personnel charging at a group of people at a metro station is being shared by social media users with the claim that it’s from China. The…
Old photograph of UP police personnel throwing a stone shared as Delhi police
An image of a policeman dressed in riot gear pelting a stone has been shared on social media in the backdrop of communal riots in Delhi’s Jafrabad-Maujpur region. On February…
Old video of mob pelting stones at police in Ahmedabad shared as Delhi riots
At least 34 people have reportedly lost their lives in the going communal violence in north-east Delhi. In the midst of visuals of riots going viral on social media, BJP…
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…
Media analysis: ANI’s skewed coverage of CAA protests abroad
After the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on December 12, 2019, a wave of protests against the law began taking place in different parts of India. These were…
CAA Protests: Old video from MP shared as UP police thrashing stone-pelters
A video of policemen brutally thrashing several men has been shared with the claim that Uttar Pradesh police is beating stone-pelters for destructing public property. “UP Police प्रस्तुत शॉर्ट फिल्म…
False claim: Bomb blast inside mosque in Bihar’s Sasaram, 100 bombs found
A claim widely circulated on social media about the recent bomb blast in Sasaram, Bihar, asserts that the explosion took place inside a mosque where a hundred other bombs were…
September 2019: Misinformation around Chandrayaan-2 and MVA; media misreports add to the clutter
September 2019 was characterized by ‘diversity’ of misinformation, from photoshopped images to videos which were either mischievously clipped or circulated out of context. Like always, prominent news developments became the…
HW News ran photoshopped image of an old Aaj Tak promo, clarified later
On September 10, HW News broadcast a show on journalist Ravish Kumar’s Ramon Magsaysay Award and Tabrez Ansari’s lynching where charges of murder were recently dropped. The show was anchored by Abhisar…
Facebook purge: The curious case of pages that did not feature in FB press release
On April 1, Facebook took down thousands of pages, groups and accounts from Facebook and Instagram, describing the crackdown as “removing coordinated inauthentic behaviour and spam from India and Pakistan.” Specifying…