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Aircraft set on fire: Old video falsely viral as visuals of Pakistan airbase attack

Abira Das4th November 20234th November 2023

In the early hours of Saturday, November 4, at least nine armed terrorists including suspected suicide bombers stormed an air force base at Mianwali in Pakistan’s Punjab province. According to…

Did MP CM Shivraj Singh say ‘Do anything but stop Kamal Nath’?: No, video tampered with fake audio

Abira Das4th November 2023

Ahead of the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, a video of the chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is being widely circulated on social media where the BJP leader is voicing his…

Expelled BJP leader Naveen Kr Jindal tweets edited video of blast, claims man falling off hoverboard was a ‘Jihadi’

Abira Das3rd November 2023

A video is viral on social media depicting a man, wearing a white kaftan, falling off a hoverboard and exploding. Background music has been added to the video, which says…

No, Modi did not say Hindutva was an election card for BJP; doctored clip viral

Oishani Bhattacharya3rd November 20233rd November 2023

A 13-second clip of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is viral on social media where he can be heard saying in Hindi, “Hindutva has never been Bharatiya Janata Party’s electoral campaign,…

Video of cop set ablaze is from Mexico, 2020; not related to Israel-Hamas war

Shreyatama Datta2nd November 20232nd November 2023

Trigger Warning: Graphic Violence A video of a protest demonstration is in circulation on social media, where someone can be seen pouring a flammable liquid from a bottle on a…

Reporting from Gaza tunnels: Viral video is from 2021; claim by Organiser, TV9 journalist & others misleading

Abhishek Kumar2nd November 2023

A report by Russia’s state news network RT (formerly known as Russia Today) is doing the rounds on social media. In it, a news correspondent is seen descending into a…

Did Biden link Hamas attack to G20 or India-Middle East Economic Corridor?

Abhishek Kumar1st November 2023

On October 25, US President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held a joint press conference at the White House. In this press conference, Biden touched upon the…

Kerala blasts: From ‘Jews targeted’ to ‘Muslims behind it’, Right Wing jumps to conclusions that suit its agenda

Oishani Bhattacharya1st November 20231st November 2023

Multiple improvised explosive device (IED) blasts at a religious convention of a Christian sect called Jehovah’s Witnesses on October 29 killed three persons and injured over 50 at Kalamassery in…

Photos of 2016 Syria bombing survivor falsely shared to question Palestine’s claims of death & destruction

Abira Das29th October 202329th October 2023

The story uses only screenshots and not actual tweets to withhold the identity of the children involved. A collage of three photos depicting a shell-shocked girl covered in debris being…

Ruckus in a bus: Kasaragod college students’ protest given communal twist on social media

Shinjinee Majumder28th October 202328th October 2023

A video of a group of women clad in burqa on a bus engaged in an altercation with a woman in a saree is viral with the claim that the…

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Give me screen time, I’ll give you fodder for communal debates: Shahabuddin Razvi’s give & take with news channels

AI clip of man’s narrow escape from lioness viral as real incident; Republic, News18 misreport, later tweak story