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False claim suggests Sunni Central Waqf Board to build ‘Babri Hospital’, appoint Dr Kafeel Khan

Archit8th August 20208th August 2020

On August 6, media outlets published a syndicated news report by Press Trust of India (PTI). The report stated that the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF), a trust constituted by the…

Air India crash: Malappuram Collector terms news of 40 passengers testing COVID positive “fake news”

Pooja Chaudhuri8th August 2020

Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi published a story on August 8 claiming that 40 victims of the Air India Express plane crash at Kozhikode International Airport tested positive for coronavirus. The article…

Fake Twitter account impersonates Kashmiri woman Nadia Beig who cleared UPSC exam

Archit & Pratik Sinha8th August 20208th August 2020

Sixteen people from Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh cleared the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examinations 2019, as per media reports. The results were declared on August 4. News18 reported…

Delhi doctor’s arrest in kidney transplant racket viral with false COVID angle

Archit5th August 202019th April 2021

Several Facebook users have shared a message that claims that a doctor named Devendra Sharma was arrested for surgically removing the kidneys of healthy people by falsely declaring them COVID…

Video of youth forced to drink urine in Rajasthan viral with false ‘Dalit oppression’ claim

Kinjal1st August 20201st August 2020

A video of a man tied to a tree and force-fed from a bottle was shared on social media. Social activist Kush Ambedkarwadi tweeted the video on July 30 claiming…

Video from 2019 showing flooded Nalanda College, Patna shared as recent

Archit29th July 202029th July 2020

Several social media users have shared a video that shows a flooded hospital ward. As per social media claims, this is Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in Patna. “JDU-BJP’s gift…

Coronavirus: Photos, videos viral with false “organ trading of dead bodies” claim

Archit & Kinjal25th July 202027th July 2020

Multiple social media users claimed that organs were missing from the dead body of a patient who died of COVID-19 in Mumbai. On July 20, IBN 24×7 News (archived link)…

CCTV footage of man stabbed to death in Delhi’s Madipur shared with false Muslim angle

Archit22nd July 2020

A CCTV clip of a man brutally stabbed by a group of youths has been shared by several Facebook and Twitter users. As per social media claims, the victim was…

Prathap NM, hailed as ‘drone scientist’, passes off German and Japanese drones as his own

Pooja Chaudhuri18th July 202020th July 2020

A young man from Karnataka Prathap NM was hailed in Kannada media as “drone” Prathap for claiming to have extraordinary achievements. A few English websites like Deccan Herald and India…

Fact-check: Was the bridge that collapsed in Bihar part of Rs 264 crore Sattarghat project?

Priyanka Jha18th July 2020

On July 16, the country woke up to the news of Sattarghat bridge in Bihar collapsing a month after it was inaugurated. Flooding in Gandak river damaged the bridge reportedly…