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BJP leaders share puff piece replete with misinfo to defend PM Modi on COVID crisis

Pooja Chaudhuri11th May 202112th May 2021

An article exalting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic made a sudden appearance on the Twitter timelines of BJP leaders. “PM Modi has been working hard; don’t…

Media falsely reports Ramayana, Mahabharata to be taught in Saudi Arabian schools

Archit3rd May 20217th October 2023

On October 5, 2023, journalist Abhijeet Majumder shared a video report of Zee Media’s WION channel on X (formerly Twitter). The report says that the Ramayana and the Mahabharata will…

Aaj Tak misrepresents COVID facility in Delhi as Lucknow

Anuradha Prasad23rd April 2021

On April 21, Aaj Tak reported that the Lucknow District Administration reserved 1,550 beds for people suffering from COVID-19. The channel tweeted a picture of rows of hospital beds inside…

Times Now airs visuals from Andhra to report on large gatherings in Kerala

Pooja Chaudhuri20th April 2021

On April 19, Times Now aired a broadcast claiming large gatherings were seen in Kerala despite the “skyrocketing” of COVID cases. Large gatherings seen in Kerala despite skyrocketing of COVID-19…

No, a ‘Harvard’ study did not laud UP govt’s handling of migrant crisis

Archit15th April 202116th April 2021

A piece of news that was widely reported in the media in the first week of April claimed that a Harvard study hailed the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh…

Delhi man ‘angry with God’ defiles Hanuman idols, Sudarshan News adds false Muslim angle

Aqib Pathan14th April 2021

Sudarshan TV tweeted a video claiming that three temples were vandalised in Dwarka, Delhi. “Another temple was gripped by hate,” read its tweet. (Archive Link) “नफ़रत की उन्मादी आंधी की…

Did Johns Hopkins hail UP among toppers in managing COVID across the world?

Archit13th April 202114th April 2021

In the first week of April, media outlets reported that an unnamed study by Johns Hopkins University found that Uttar Pradesh’s management of crisis during the pandemic was among the…

News Nation misidentifies shop as samadhi in Malanggad, accuses Muslims of trespass

Archit7th April 20218th April 2021

On March 28, several news outlets including News Nation reported that Muslim men entered a Hindu place of worship and interrupted aarti in Maharasthra’s Malanggad. At 4:13 minutes into a…

Bijapur Maoist attack: Dainik Bhaskar publishes images of film set as Naxal camp

Priyanka Jha7th April 2021

On April 3, 22 security personnel were killed in an encounter with Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur. Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar published an article on April 5 with the headline, “Video…

Video of Yogi Adityanath using abusive word is NOT edited

Pooja Chaudhuri5th April 20215th April 2021

On April 5, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s bite to ANI on COVID vaccination led to a Twitter storm after many pointed out that he used abusive language on…

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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