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    Vansh Shah

    Scripted video of two men marrying one woman viral; media outlets report on ‘unique wedding’

    21st March 202321st March 2023
    A video has gone viral which apparently shows two men marrying the same woman at the same time. Twitter Blue subscriber Mohammad Tanvir shared the video with a caption in...
    Scripted video of two men marrying one woman viral; media outlets report on ‘unique wedding’
    Shinjinee Majumder

    Media misreport: Nobel committee member did not say Modi biggest contender for Peace Prize

    17th March 202317th March 2023
    Several media outlets recently reported that the deputy leader of the Nobel Prize committee, Asle Toje, who is in India at present, had called Prime Minister Modi the ‘biggest contender...
    Media misreport: Nobel committee member did not say Modi biggest contender for Peace Prize

    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…

    Are ‘TMC cadres’ seen pelting stones at cops in video shared by BJP leaders after Nabanna march?

    Shinjinee Majumder & Indradeep Bhattacharyya19th September 202219th September 2022

    Violence erupted during Nabanna Abhijan, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s protest march to West Bengal state secretariat ‘Nabanna‘ on September 13 as police in various parts of Kolkata and the adjoining…

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