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3 out of Facebook’s 7 fact-checking partners have shared misinformation post-Pulwama

Pooja Chaudhuri & Priyanka Jha18th March 201917th August 2020

“We are committed to fighting the spread of false news on Facebook, especially ahead of the 2019 General Election campaign season,” Manish Khanduri, Facebook India’s news partnership head, said in…

Major Gaurav Arya tweets misleading video, defends the misinformation

Jignesh Patel15th March 201916th March 2019

Major Gaurav Arya, an army veteran and host of Republic TV’s show, ‘Patriot’, tweeted a video on March 14. In the video, a group of blindfolded soldiers, whose hands are…

Staged video circulating as Pakistani news channel’s reportage after Balakot air strike

Jignesh Patel9th March 2019

A Facebook user, Bhola Nath Varma posted two videos, supposedly of a Pakistani news channel report saying, “देखिये और सोचिज। (Watch and think- translation)”. The message posted along with the…

Alt News Analysis: Pro-BJP pages account for 70% of ad spending made public by Facebook

Pooja Chaudhuri9th March 201912th December 2021

Facebook recently introduced its Ad Library report, which is a searchable database consisting of “ads related to politics and issues of national importance that have been run on Facebook or…

Zee News broadcasts old, unrelated satellite visuals as destroyed JEM camp in Balakot

Jignesh Patel8th March 20199th March 2019

On March 2, Twitter user @IndianInterest tweeted two satellite images with a claim that the building, reportedly bombed by the Indian Air Force in Balakot, was demolished. In a series…

Unrelated picture portrayed as Wg Cdr Abhinandan’s mother rejoicing his release

Pooja Chaudhuri28th February 201928th February 2019

The Pakistani government declared that captured Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman will be released on March 1 as a “peace gesture”. Soon after, both Pakistani and Indian social media ecosystems were brimming…

Pak social media shares video of pilot injured in Bengaluru Aero Show as that of IAF Pilot

Pratik Sinha27th February 2019

Earlier today, the spokesperson of the Pakistani Armed Forces claimed on his Twitter account that Pakistan had shot down two Indian airforce planes inside Pakistani airspace and had arrested one…

Multiple Indian media channels play old footage as IAF strike on JeM camps

Arjun Sidharth26th February 201915th March 2019

With India waking up to news of the Indian Air Force bombing JeM terror camps at Balakot in Pakistan in the early hours of February 26, multiple news channels have…

Old video viral as Indian Air Force’s strike on JeM terror camps

Pratik Sinha26th February 201926th February 2019

On Tuesday, Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale informed a press briefing that the Indian Air Force carried out a non-military, pre-emptive air strike in Balakot, Pakistan in the early hours…

Times Of India rolls back their fact-check on PM’s whereabouts after Pulwama attack

Alt News Desk25th February 201925th February 2019

“FAKE: Congress makes false claim of PM Modi shooting for film at Corbett 3 hours after Pulwama attack”. The tweet by Times Fact Check was retweeted over 6000 times. PM…

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Pakistan-flagged oil tanker destroyed in Hormuz? Unrelated video falsely shared

Nagpur factory blast killed 20 on March 1: How did five leading English news channels respond?