A 15-second clip showing a massive explosion is going viral on social media, being shared as footage from the ongoing US–Israel war against Iran. Users claim it captures a United…
Drone strike on US embassy in Riyadh? Journalists, media outlets falsely share old video as fresh footage
Amid rising tensions between Iran and the US–Israel alliance, drones struck the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 3, 2026. The attack reportedly caused minor damage, and no…
‘Dubai is burning’: 2022 skydiving video falsely peddled as Iranian attack
A 15-second video showing objects resembling explosives falling from the sky is being widely shared on social media, with users claiming it captures an Iranian attack on Dubai. On February…
No, Arvind Kejriwal did not say that Virat Kohli was from Koli community
A 38-second video clip featuring Aam Aadmi Party leader and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is circulating widely on social media. In the clip, Kejriwal praises the Koli community…
Inside the Azim Premji University flare-up: Vandalism, ABVP–AISA face-off, FIRs against students
Azim Premji University (APU), Bengaluru, has reacted to the violence and vandalism allegedly carried out by the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on its campus on February 24 in protest…
Anti-Muslim graffiti on NH: Hindu Raksha Dal member says Muslims are ‘tenants’ in India, should live like that
On the intervening night of February 26 and 27, women associated with the Hindu Raksha Dal (HRD) spray-painted communal slogans on a crash barrier along the Delhi–Dehradun National Highway in…
Cow vigilantes strike in Gandhinagar, chase and topple car, beat up Muslim men transporting ‘buffaloes’
A black SUV without a number plate cruises along the Modhera Temple overbridge in Gujarat in the dead of night, as if on the hunt. It spots a pickup van…
Elderly Muslim man assaulted in Uttarakhand for offering namaz on vacant field ‘near’ temple
Trigger Warning: Footage Contains Use of Expletives A video showing an elderly Muslim man offering namaz being assaulted, verbally abused, and forced to chant “Jai Sri Ram” has triggered outrage…
The Kerala Story 2 trailer recycles baseless Islamophobic tropes, fuels familiar fear narratives
The Kerala high court on February 26 stayed the release of the film, The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond, a day before it was supposed to hit the theatres. The…
‘Namaz by truck driver causing traffic jam’: Zee News fined for false, communal reporting
Imposing a penalty of Rs 1,00,000 on Zee News for a report that falsely claimed that a truck driver offering namaz atop his vehicle had caused traffic jam on the…