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Video used to mock Ravish Kumar for ‘rolling on the street’ does not feature the journalist

Priyanka Jha & Ketan1st October 20201st October 2020

BJP MLA Indu Tiwari from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh tweeted a 19-second video alleging that it shows journalist Ravish Kumar. “Do you recognise this messiah journalist? He is known for imparting…

Video shared to make misleading claim that Hathras victim’s family did her last rites

Pooja Chaudhuri30th September 20201st October 2020

A 19-year-old Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras was allegedly tortured and gang-raped by four upper-caste men on September 14. She succumbed to her injuries on September 29. The UP…

Media circus continues: Did Ranveer seek permission to join Deepika during NCB ‘drug’ probe?

Pooja Chaudhuri26th September 202028th September 2020

Actor Deepika Padukone has become the cause célèbre after diverting mainstream media’s attention from Rhea Chakraborty in the Bollywood ‘drug cartel’ probe. In a similar WhatsApp chat ‘leak’, Padukone was…

Media misquotes Sunil Gavaskar on Virat-Anushka, social media erupts in outrage

Jignesh Patel25th September 202027th September 2020

The Indian Premier League (IPL) under way in the UAE garnered controversy after social media outrage that former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar made a ‘distasteful’ remark on Royal Challengers Banglore…

Actor Rupa Dutta mixes another man’s FB profile with Anurag Kashyap’s, accuses him of misconduct

Priyanka Jha & Pratik Sinha22nd September 202027th September 2020

Actor Rupa Dutta wrote a Facebook post accusing filmmaker Anurag Kashyap of sleazy behaviour in 2014. She shared screenshots of a purported chat where a man named ‘Anurag Safar’ is…

Old photos shared to depict recent farmers protest in Pipli, Haryana

Anuradha Prasad17th September 2020

Farmers have been protesting against the central government’s agricultural ordinances for months now. Several were injured in a confrontation between police and farmers on September 10 in Pipli, Haryana. Former…

Fake ABP News graphic plates on Kangana Ranaut and reopening of schools viral

Pooja Chaudhuri12th September 2020

Two purported graphic plates of ABP News are doing the rounds on social media. Image 1 The first graphic portrays that the channel aired the following breaking news — “Kangana…

Video of grandmother torturing toddler in Bengaluru shared as Mumbai’s Dadar

Kinjal11th September 2020

A video of a woman beating and abusing a toddler has taken social media by the storm. Users are claiming that the video is from Mumbai’s Dadar area. It shows…

Morphed ABP News screengrab on Rhea Chakraborty ‘eating palak paneer’ surfaces online

Priyanka Jha7th September 20207th September 2020

Retired IAS officer Surya Pratap Singh posted a purported screengrab of an ABP News bulletin. “Rhea had eaten palak paneer curry,” reads the breaking news ticker in Hindi. “How can…