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Misleading, exaggerated claims about UP’s unemployment rate, EoDB and GSDP surface

Archit7th December 20217th December 2021

On November 16, BJP supporter Rishi Bagree jotted down Uttar Pradesh’s purported ranking on various performance indicators such as unemployment rate, ease of doing business (EoDB) and gross state domestic…

Minor girl’s rape in UP’s Baghpat shared with false anti-Muslim spin

Archit6th December 20216th December 2021

On November 29, Amar Ujala and Dainik Jagran reported that a 15-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district was allegedly raped by two men. Subsequently, several social media users shared…

False claim: New Meta policy allows Facebook to use your photos in court trials

Abhishek Kumar4th December 20214th December 2021

On October 28, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company’s name has been changed to Meta. Since then, a post has been circulating widely on Facebook about certain changes…

Old video from Mexico shared as cattle swept away in Andhra Pradesh floods

Kinjal24th November 202124th November 2021

On November 19, Dainik Bhaskar shared 15 photos in a report on the recent flooding in Andhra Pradesh. The thumbnail of the article shows animals being swept away in the…

Aligarh police denies Muslim hawker’s thrashing was communal. What is the truth?

Priyanka Jha23rd November 2021

On October 31, journalist Sachin Gupta of Dainik Bhaskar tweeted that a hawker named Aamir selling clothes in UP’s Aligarh was beaten up by two people. They tore his clothes…

Sulli Deals: Organised attempt to blame a Muslim youth for the app

Mohammed Zubair, Pratik Sinha & Pooja Chaudhuri15th November 202115th November 2021

On July 4, dozens of Muslim women in India found themselves “up for sale” on an app that went by the name “Sulli Deals”. The app uploaded publically available pictures…

Old image from unrelated case shared as actor Poonam Pandey in hospital

Priyanka Jha15th November 2021

On November 8, ANI cited the Mumbai police informing that actress Poonam Pandey’s husband Sam Bombay was arrested in Mumbai after she complained of assault. She was admitted to a…

Tripura police claims no mosque was torched in Panisagar but ground reality differs

Archit13th November 2021

A week after violence against the minority Hindu community was reported in Bangladesh, communal attacks targeting the Muslim community took place in Tripura. The Indian Express reported that the last…

Blast caused by firecrackers, CCTV video falsely viral as battery-powered scooty explods

Priyanka Jha13th November 2021

A CCTV video of a scooty suddenly exploding was shared with the claim that the blast happened because the two-wheeler was battery-powered. (Archive link) बैटरी वाली स्कूटी फटी बीच बाजार…

U23 World C’ships medallist Nisha Dahiya denies news reports of her death

Archit10th November 2021

On November 10, several media outlets reported that unknown assailants shot dead national level wrestler Nisha Dahiya and her brother at Sushil Kumar Academy in Sonipat’s Halalpur area. This report…