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Bulandshahr blast: Sudarshan News, RW handles falsely claim house belonged to a Muslim

Abhishek Kumar3rd April 2023

On March 31, a blast rocked a house in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, leaving several people dead. Sharing the news, many media outlets, Right Wing influencers and journalists tweeted that the…

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

Vansh Shah21st 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…

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

Shinjinee Majumder17th March 20239th September 2025

X users like IDU (which is purportedly an acronym for Indian Defence Updates) (handle: @defencealerts) and India War Monitor (@IndiaWarMonitor) have shared a clipping from a Times Now bulletin and…

Fact check: Saudi Arabia has not banned loudspeakers on Ramzan

Vansh Shah15th March 202315th March 2023

The Saudi Arabian minister of Islamic affairs Sheikh Abdullatif bin Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh recently issued a circular underlining the steps to be taken to prepare mosques for the month of Ramadan…

No, Monu Manesar has not been given clean chit by Rajasthan police in Bhiwani case

Kalim Ahmed23rd February 2023

On February 16, the charred bodies of two men Junaid (35) and Nasir (25), both residents of Ghatmeeka in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district, were found inside a four-wheeler in Bhiwani, Haryana….

Jagran-owned Vishvas News continues as IFCN signatory despite violating codes of conduct

Archit & Shinjinee Majumder20th February 2023

In March 2020, Meta (previously Facebook) announced a partnership with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN, set up in 2015 by US no-profit Poynter Institute) ‘to reduce the spread of misinformation…

Saharanpur students didn’t shout pro-Pakistan slogans; false claim by media, RW handles

Abhishek Kumar10th February 2023

A video of a group of college students in uniform chanting slogans inside a bus is making the rounds on social media. It is claimed that the students raised pro-Pakistan…

Media analysis: How Indian news outlets reacted to the Hindenburg-Adani saga

Archit9th February 20239th February 2023

The US-based investor-research firm Hindenburg Research on January 24 published a 32,000-word report on the Adani Group titled Adani Group: How The World’s 3rd Richest Man Is Pulling The Largest…

Media reports that Pakistan denied airspace to IAF aid plane to Turkey are false

Archit8th February 2023

On February 6, an earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and western Syria. Its epicenter was in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep. The BBC reported at 13.46 IST on…

Misreporting by major news outlets; Pakistan flag was not hoisted in Bihar’s Purnea

Shinjinee Majumder27th January 202327th January 2023

On January 26, 2023, news broke that a Pakistani flag had been hoisted on a residential building in Madhubani Sipahi Tola area in Purnea, Bihar. Several news media outlets reported…

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The dark underbelly of YouTube ‘news’ channels: Staged vox pop, planted debates, recurring faces & BJP links

Imran Khan’s sister slammed Pak Army chief Asim Munir? Media picked up deepfake and ran it as news