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Old video of village drama from Rajasthan shared as Muslims sacrifice boy as ritual

Pooja Chaudhuri26th October 201926th October 2019

“ये कौनसा धर्म है भाया जिसने एक मासूम बच्चे की बली चढ़ा दी और सारे लोग खुशियां मना रहे हैं sayad ye sab log musalman lagte he,” is a message viral…

Alleged ‘human shield’ incident from 2018 being shared in Pak social media as recent

Pratik Sinha18th August 2019

Hamid Mir, a prominent Pakistani journalist and anchor, has shared a video of a group of men sitting in front of vehicles of security forces. The commentary in the video…

Did BBC, Al Jazeera, Reuters fabricate reports of unrest in Kashmir?

Pooja Chaudhuri & Pratik Sinha13th August 201914th August 2019

On August 10, BBC News had reported that thousands of protesters had taken to the streets in Soura, Srinagar against the government’s decision to strip Jammu and Kashmir of its special…

ANI, India TV portray photographs of mosque in Jammu as Eid prayers in Srinagar

Arjun Sidharth12th August 201912th August 2019

On August 12, 2019, news agency ANI tweeted a set of photographs, reporting that these were clicked in Srinagar where “People offered namaz in the morning at Mohalla mosques in…

Video of mentally-challenged man falsely accused of child-lifting shared to stoke rumours

Jignesh Patel12th August 2019

“सिकराय गनीपुर रोड़ पंचमुखी मंदिर के पास पकड़ा गया एक ओर गिरोह का सदस्य आदमीयो को देख कर खेत मे भाग गया मोके पे पुलिस बुला कर पकड़ाया (One more…

No, this is not Mumbai police commissioner warning about terrorist attacks

Pooja Chaudhuri12th August 2019

A video where a man, speaking in Marathi, warns about possible terrorist attacks by Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI in several Indian cities is viral on social media. It is being…

Old images of dead woman’s body broken at hip viral on social media

Pooja Chaudhuri24th July 20192nd June 2020

Two photographs are being widely circulated on social media with the claim that a woman’s body was twisted and broken by a son duo to wrap her in a sack…

Unrelated image sourced from a random FB profile used to recirculate an old incident

Pooja Chaudhuri20th July 2019

A Twitter handle @Nationallist_Om which is a parody account of journalist Pushpendra Kulshrestha shared an image of a bearded man with the claim that Muslims are making fake IDs with…

Old images of 2014 Bangladesh floods shared as Assam floods

Jignesh Patel18th July 201921st July 2020

Photographs of a teenager saving a deer from floodwaters are yet again circulating on social media in the wake of devastating floods in Assam where the death toll has crossed…

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Identifying an impostor: ‘Verified’ X account not of Iranian journalist whose show was interrupted by Israeli attacks

Dalit man tortured in Jhansi? Old video resurfaces; police says victim, assailants from same community