Twitter handle @squintneon, which has been suspended by the micro-blogging site twice in the past, is back with circulating misinformation. At 1:23 PM on February 21, ‘Comrade Squinty’ tweeted student…
Khalistan supporters gatecrashing Congress event in London resurfaces with false claim
Recently, a video is being circulated on social media with the claim that the Congress let in Khalistan protesters at their event where the separatists chanted anti-India slogans. Several individual users…
Shahrukh Khan did not donate Rs 45 crores to Pakistan for victims of oil tanker blast
“कोई बताएगा 45 करोड़ रुपए पाकिस्तान को देने वाले शाहरुख खान ने शहीदों को क्या दिया है (Will somebody please tell me, What has Shahrukh Khan, who had donated Rs…
General G D Bakshi makes false claim about Mehbooba Mufti and 2014 Budgam firing
A video clip of India TV editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma on his prime time news show has been shared massively on social media. The video clip is two minutes and twenty…
J&K police calls out media reports about terror attack on Shopian police station
Soon after the news about Pulwama terror attack broke out, political parties issued statements strongly condemning the attack on CRPF convoy which led to the martyrdom of 44 CRPF personnel….
Were Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru hanged on February 14, 1931?
The 14th of February is recognised as Valentine’s Day in many countries across the world. However, a bunch of messages circulating on social media are appealing to Indians that they…
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…
January round-up: Political sniping continues unabated in 2019
January, 2019 turned out to be business as usual for purveyors of misinformation, who used all sorts of tactics to manipulate the views of social media users. Targeting of political…
Exposé: Who runs the serial misinformation factory ‘Yogi Adityanath Ki Sena’?
A Facebook page योगी आदित्यनाथ की सेना (@YogiSenaGKP) has an impressive following of over 6.5 lakh users. Named after the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, deciphering its political bend is a no-brainer. In the…
Old video of Priyanka Gandhi shared with a false claim of her being intoxicated
“शाम होते ही #शराब के नशे में चूर हो जाने वाली से #कांग्रेस को उम्मीद हो सकती है मगर देश को नहीं है (Congress can have their hopes on those…