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Teacher trashes student for ‘loitering’, Sudarshan News injects false communal spin

Kinjal21st October 2021

Sudarshan News tweeted a video on October 16 that shows a teacher beating a pupil in class. The channel claimed that a Christian teacher in Tamil Nadu brutally beat up…

Int’l and Indian media fall for fake Twitter account in Kabul Uni chancellor’s name

Pooja Chaudhuri1st October 20211st October 2021

A piece of news that made headlines on September 27 around the world claimed that the chancellor of Kabul University Mohammad Ashraf Ghairat said in a tweet, “As long as…

Zee News, among others, airs clipped video to claim Rakesh Tikait ‘threatened’ the media

Priyanka Jha30th September 2021

Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary tweeted a 12-second video of farmer leader Rakesh Tikait and wrote, “Rakesh Tikait’s next target are media houses. Zee News showed the truth, so does…

Assam news outlets misreport 26 ‘Rohingya Muslims’ arrested in Guwahati

Archit14th September 202114th September 2021

Assam-based media outlets DY365, Asom Live 24, and NorthEast Now reported that 26 Rohingya Muslims were arrested in Guwahati with fake Aadhaar cards. “They were planning to move to Delhi,”…

Zee Hindustan ran video of Baloch girl with machine gun as ‘Panjshir, Afghanistan’

Kinjal7th September 2021

On September 6, the Taliban claimed the complete seizure of Panjshir province, the last remaining region in Afghanistan resisting the Islamist extremist organisation’s control. Against this backdrop, several videos were…

India Today, Aaj Tak run news on Ahmad Massoud based on fake Twitter handle

Priyanka Jha7th September 20217th September 2021

In a recent ‘breaking news’ segment, India Today claimed that Ahmad Massoud, head of the National Resistance Force of Afghanistan (NRFA), tweeted a photo claiming that a Pakistani Air Force…

Republic, TV9 air video game clips as Pakistani airforce attack in Panjshir, Afghanistan

Pooja Chaudhuri6th September 20216th September 2021

After the Taliban claimed victory over opposition forces in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan, Republic TV aired an ‘exclusive’ video accessed from Hasti TV alleging it shows the Pakistani Air Force attacks…

Times Now airs video from UK as Pakistani fighter jet in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan

Pooja Chaudhuri & Aqib Pathan6th September 20217th September 2021

In a September 6 broadcast, Times Now aired a piece of ‘breaking news’ where a video of a fighter jet was broadcast as the “first visuals of a fighter jet,…

Republic Bharat airs image of BSP leader Yaqoob Qureshi as Taliban leader

Archit1st September 20211st September 2021

On August 31, several users on Twitter and Facebook shared an image of a Republic Bharat broadcast, pointing out that the channel erroneously aired a photograph of BSP leader Yaqoob…

Does the video show Taliban ‘hanging’ a body from a helicopter?

Mohammed Zubair1st September 20211st September 2021

The United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 30, marking an end to two decades of conflict. The US has reportedly abandoned military equipment and those not dismantled…

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Nagpur factory blast killed 20 on March 1: How did five leading English news channels respond?

Times Now, ABP, Zee, Republic misreport 2020 Beirut video as Iranian missile strike in Dubai