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Aaj Tak, India TV, Jagran fell for Elon Musk’s joke; Twitter didn’t hire back two fired employees

Abhishek Kumar23rd November 202223rd November 2022

Right after Elon Musk took over the reins of microblogging site Twitter, the organization carried out large-scale lay-offs. While many social media users made memes poking fun at the development,…

Old video of Emmanuel Macron being slapped viral again as latest incident

Kalim Ahmed22nd November 202223rd November 2022

A six-second-long clip of a civilian slapping French President Emmanuel Macron while he is interacting with the public is viral on social media. One Luke Rudkowski posted the video on…

Leading media outlets use old photos of Imran Khan claiming them to be of Nov 3 attack

Kalim Ahmed3rd November 20223rd November 2022

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was allegedly shot at during a rally in Wazirabad in Pakistan’s Punjab on Novermber 3. Khan was leading his party members to the capital,…

Jagran publishes article claiming lighting diyas increases oxygen, then deletes it

Shinjinee Majumder1st November 20221st November 2022

In a now-deleted article titled “दीप प्रज्ज्वलन के वैज्ञानिक और आध्यात्मिक पक्ष, जानें ये है फायदे” (Translation: Scientific and Spiritual Aspects of Lamp Lighting, Know These Benefits), Hindi news media…

‘Police ka Dandiya’: How Aman Chopra of News18 glorified public flogging of Muslims by Gujarat police

Shinjinee Majumder15th October 202219th October 2022

Trigger Warning: Violent visuals. Viewer discretion is advised. In the afternoon of October 4, the residents of Undhela in Gujarat’s Kheda district witnessed a public flogging of 10 Muslim men…

Media outlets air old image of a crocodile from Costa Rica as Babiya from Kerala

Abhishek Kumar13th October 2022

The famed vegetarian crocodile named Babiya, living at the Ananthapura Lake Temple, recently passed away in Kerala’s Kasaragod district. Several news organizations reported the news carrying a picture of a…

Fact-Check: Did UP electricity dept issue notice only to mosqes & madrasas for stealing power?

Abhishek Kumar3rd October 20223rd October 2022

A few days ago, media outlets reported that 400 mosques and madrasas in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur were operating on stolen electricity. According to these reports, the electricity department issued notices…

Analysis of Saam TV clip of PFI protest reaffirms no pro-Pak slogans raised

Shinjinee Majumder & Indradeep Bhattacharyya28th September 202228th September 2022

On September 23, a day after Popular Front of India (PFI) offices across the country were raided by multiple law-enforcement agencies, a protest by PFI activists in Pune created a…

PFI protest: Media and BJP leaders falsely claim ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans were raised

Mahaprajna Nayak & Shinjinee Majumder25th September 202225th September 2022

On September 22, 2022, in a raid jointly conducted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and police in multiple states, over 100 leaders of the Popular Front…

News channels show old, unrelated video as clip of cheetah brought to India from Namibia

Abhishek Kumar22nd September 2022

On September 17, cheetahs brought from Namibia were released at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. Since then, social media users and media outlets have been circulating a video…

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No, Israeli filmmaker neither took back comments on ‘The Kashmir Files’, nor called it ‘brilliant’

Victim blaming on social media: How Shraddha murder case exposed the patriarchal core of Right Wing