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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…

News channels, BJP leaders’ claim that UPA got St. George’s Cross back on Navy flag is false

Abhishek Kumar16th September 202217th September 2022

On September 2, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the new flag of the Indian Navy in Kochi. The St George’s Cross was removed from the erstwhile flag and it was…

Media houses shared unrelated video from MP as sadhus beaten up for child theft in Maharashtra

Kinjal15th September 2022

In the past few weeks, there have been multiple reports of people getting attacked across the country over rumours of child kidnapping. This wave of rumours began circulating after a…

NDTV, Hindustan Times share 4-yr-old video as footage from Sept 11 Papua New Guinea earthquake

Shinjinee Majumder13th September 2022

A video of an earthquake is being circulated widely on social media as footage of the 7.6-magnitude quake that hit Papua New Guinea, an island nation in the southwestern Pacific…

News Nation aired old videos as visuals of destruction caused by typhoon Hinnamnor

Kalim Ahmed9th September 202210th September 2022

Typhoon Hinnamnor has ravaged parts of Japan and South Korea in the last few days. As per ABC News Australia, in Japan’s southern region, more than hundred people were evacuated…

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Assam Tribune rejects column critical of BJP & Himanta, asks veteran journalist to ‘focus only on Meghalaya’

UAE’s ‘new policy’ for Golden Visas leaves Indian media red-faced: How it all started