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France knife-attack: Suspect a Syrian Christian; False ‘Jihad Watch’ report calling him a Muslim viral in India

Oishani Bhattacharya26th June 2023

A few weeks back, a video surfaced on social media, which showed a knife-wielding man stabbing people, including toddlers and an elderly man, in a playground in Annecy, France. The…

Manipur woman shot dead on road? Viral video is actually from Myanmar; misreport by Assam newspaper

Oishani Bhattacharya19th June 202319th June 2023

[The story only uses screenshots and not the entire video in view of the violent nature of the content.] A video of a woman being tortured and killed by a…

Hindu woman beheaded 6 Muslims in Varanasi after rape threat? Fake report viral; no such incident, confirm police

Shinjinee Majumder19th June 2023

An image of an apparent report by UP Tak (a Lucknow-based media outlet from India Today’s ‘Tak’ cluster) is viral in which it is claimed that a Dalit woman is…

Gujarat cyclone: Unrelated videos flood social media, ex-DD News boss shares several such clips

Oishani Bhattacharya17th June 2023

Cyclone Biparjoy hit the coastal areas of Saurashtra and the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat around 7 pm on Thursday, June 15, in the form of a very severe cyclonic…

Cyclone Biparjoy: Republic anchor’s antics symptomatic of everything that’s wrong with Indian TV media

Indradeep Bhattacharyya15th June 202316th June 2023

Even before cyclone Biparjoy (literally, ‘disaster’) made landfall in Gujarat, news anchor Sweta Tripathi had taken Indian television news by storm on Wednesday night. Republic Bharat, the channel where she…

UP rape-murder accused Sheel Kumar is Hindu, ‘Rohingya’ claims false: Police

Oishani Bhattacharya7th June 2023

An image of a minor girl is being shared on social media with the claim that she was abducted, raped and killed in a village in the Shravasti district of…

5-yr-old video of boy placing stones on rail tracks viral with misleading claims

Oishani Bhattacharya & Mohammed Zubair6th June 20236th June 2023

A video of a minor boy being scolded by a few railway trackmen is being shared on social media. It is being said that the video was recently shot in…

Rly staff have joined Balasore accident probe, reports of ‘absconding’ false. And the station master’s name is not Sharif

Oishani Bhattacharya & Indradeep Bhattacharyya6th June 20236th June 2023

Nearly 300 people were killed and over 800 injured in a horrific train accident in Odisha’s Balasore district on Friday, June 2. According to information available at the moment, a…

Imran Khan arrest: News channels show AI-generated image as real; old video, fake agreement paper viral

Shinjinee Majumder13th May 2023

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested on Tuesday, May 9, in the Al-Qadir Trust case from the Islamabad High Court premises. The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician was in the biometric…

False claims of YouTuber Manish Kashyap getting clean-chit viral on social media 

Abira Das13th April 2023

YouTuber Manish Kashyap from Bihar was arrested last month at the Jagdishpur police station of Bettiah in the West Champaran district after he had surrendered there. He is accused of…