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AI videos, fear, and communal polarization: Inside BJP’s hateful digital campaign in Bengal

Prantik Ali & Anindya Hazra21st April 2026

The battle for West Bengal has, this election cycle, been defined less by governance and more by an unrelenting churn of communal politics. What was once one strand among many…

Women’s quota or delimitation? Media misrepresents facts, Modi misleads nation

Oishani Bhattacharya & Anindya Hazra20th April 202620th April 2026

A day after a Constitution amendment bill seeking to redistribute Lok Sabha seats on the basis of the 2011 Census was stalled in Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an…

Video of security movement in Manipur shared as CRPF entering Bengal to ‘protect Hindus’

Shinjinee Majumder17th April 2026

A video of a convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel is viral with the claim that the visuals are from West Bengal in the run-up to the assembly elections. Several…

Pakistani panelist insulted ABP anchor Chitra Tripathi on live show? Congress leaders share doctored video

Abhishek Kumar17th April 2026

A video from an ABP News programme is being widely shared on social media with the claim that a Pakistani panelist insulted anchor Chitra Tripathi during a live debate. According…

CRPF in action in poll-bound Bengal? Old video from Bangladesh shared falsely

Pawan Kumar17th April 2026

A video purportedly from West Bengal is being widely shared on social media, showing security personnel dragging and assaulting young men. Several users have claimed that the footage captures action…

Trinamool MP Menaka Guruswamy did not represent R G Kar accused in court

Shinjinee Majumder13th April 202614th April 2026

A collage of two AI-generated images — one of BJP’s candidate for the Panihati seat in Bengal polls and the other of advocate and Trinamool Rajya Sabha member Menaka Guruswamy…

“Others affected too, but Muslims disproportionately targeted in Bengal SIR. This can’t be random”

Anindya Hazra13th April 202613th April 2026

Just before the assembly elections in West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducchery and other states in 2026, the Election Commission of India initiated a special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the…

Clash in Murshidabad? Old video from Varanasi given communal spin, falsely linked to Bengal polls

Prantik Ali10th April 2026

A video, around 21 seconds in length, is viral on social media, purporting to show a group of Hindu men thrash a Muslim man named Nazrul Islam in West Bengal’s…

Shashi Tharoor slammed Modi govt & praised Pak diplomacy? The video is AI-generated

Shinjinee Majumder10th April 2026

Following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a suspension in attacks on Iran for two weeks, several pro-Pakistan accounts shared a video of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor saying that Pakistan…

From self-identification to state control: Trans voices raise alarm over new law

Oishani Bhattacharya8th April 20269th April 2026

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, was passed in the Lok Sabha on March 24 and in the Rajya Sabha on March 25. Five days later, on…

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CRPF action on ‘Trinamool goons’? Old video from Bangladesh falsely viral