On February 19, news reports emerged that Pakistan has declared Mandarin as one of its official languages. This information was first put out by the Pakistani news channel Abb Takk…
A compilation of Times Now’s experiments with untruth
“The pattern of a known fake and out-of-context video being deliberately recirculated multiple times by a selected section of the Indian media is a clear pointer that the objective of…
Times Now wrongly attributes a speech starting with ‘Jai Siya Ram’ to Abu Dhabi Crown Prince
Times Now is at it again. This time the fake news is timed with Prime Minister Modi’s trip to the UAE. On the day PM Modi landed in Abu Dhabi,…
Prashant P. Umrao: Unmasking a one-man hate factory
Senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai has filed a police complaint against Prashant P. Umrao, the lawyer who shot to fame over the case of the disqualification of AAP MLAs in Delhi….
Is it true? A day in Madhu Kishwar’s WhatsApp University
Madhu Kishwar found herself in the eye of a storm with her tweet naming five random Muslims as attackers of the school bus in Gurugram. What was so far a…
Ravi Shankar Prasad downplays FIR against The Tribune, but what is the truth?
“Government is fully committed to freedom of the press as well as maintaining security and sanctity of Aadhaar for India’s development. FIR is against unknown…”, tweeted Union Electronics & Information…
Were Pakistani flags raised during Dalit protest rally in the aftermath of the Bhima-Koregaon incident?
A photograph has gone viral on social media with the claim that it is representative of a Dalit protest. In the photo, bike borne cadres can be seen raising a…
Was the ‘Humans of Hindutva’ page taken down by the admin or suspended by Facebook?
On December 28, 2017, a popular Facebook page ‘Humans of Hindutva’ (HoH), that used satire to take jibes at right wing politics, went offline and could not be accessed. A…
RSS ideologue Ratan Sharda at it again, posts misleading tweet on Christmas
Ratan Sharda, RSS thinker and ideologue, was called out by twitterati after he posted this tweet on December 23. The #Church in full form. #HappyXmas. Great marketing pic.twitter.com/AdVSnSMkJd — Ratan…
Paresh Mesta death: Rumour-mongering of brutality sparks tension, Karnataka Police issues stern warning
‘Head cut open’, ‘castrated’ and ‘boiling oil poured on face’ are some of the provocative messages that are doing the rounds on social media to describe 21 year old Paresh…