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Tanishq Gandhidham store wasn’t attacked, staff threatened to put an apology

Pooja Chaudhuri14th October 202015th October 2020

A controversy over a harmless advertisement by jewellery brand Tanishq featuring an interfaith couple was blown out of proportion due to social media vitriol. The company’s brand manager Mansoor Khan’s…

BJP’s claim about West Bengal police throwing bombs at BJP protest rally is false

Pooja Chaudhuri10th October 202010th October 2020

Clashes erupted in parts of Kolkata and neighbouring Howrah on October 8 during “March to Nabanna” organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) youth wing — Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha…

Morphed image shows Uddhav Thackeray watching Republic TV amidst TRP racket

Archit9th October 20209th October 2020

On October 8, Mumbai Police Commissioner Paramvir Singh briefed the media on their findings related to a Television Rating Point (TRP) racket. TRP is a tool that judges a channel’s…

Woman who died due to medical negligence in 2018 misidentified as Hathras victim

Priyanka Jha5th October 2020

On September 29, the victim in the alleged rape case from Hathras in Uttar Pradesh passed away in Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. Following her death, social media users began sharing an…

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…

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

Viral video of South Africa’s Temba Bavuma responding to Bumrah’s ‘bauna’ jibe is AI-generated