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Did Muskan Khan ‘flee’ from India with family without ‘police permission’?

Abhishek Kumar16th May 2022

Amid the ongoing dispute regarding Hijab in Karnataka, which brought Mandya student Muskan Khan to the limelight, a piece of unverified news is viral in her name. Several regional media…

FB page brands Bangladeshi tourists as “infiltrators”, BJP leaders amplify false claim

Archit Mehta & Arbab Ali12th May 202212th May 2022

A man conducting a vox-pop (short interviews with members of the public) at Shaheen Bagh with men exiting a mosque after namaz has gone viral. In this video, the interviewer…

Satirical article claiming Pfizer’s VP was arrested believed to be true

Abhishek Kumar12th May 2022

A screenshot of an alleged tweet has gone viral on social media. The tweet carries an article that claims Pfizer’s Vice President has been arrested. The viral screenshot reads, ‘’The…

Fact-check: Piles of garbage in front of a mohalla clinic in Delhi?

Abhishek Kumar12th May 2022

A photo of an ‘Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinic’ hoarding above a pile of garbage is viral on social media. Below it in smaller font is the name of the area,…

No, this isn’t Kavi Pradeep who wrote ‘Ae Mere Watan Ke Logo’ criticising Nehru

Kinjal12th May 2022

A video ascribed to Kavi Pradeep, the lyricist who penned the words to the song ‘Ae Mere Watan Ke Logo’, is circulating widely on social media. The elderly man in…

Old photo of Amit Shah with IAS Pooja Singhal, who is under ED probe, viral

Shinjinee Majumder11th May 2022

An image of BJP president Amit Shah and IAS officer Pooja Singhal has gone viral. Social media users are claiming that it was taken days before the Enforcement Directorate raided…

No, ASI Dhannaram did not “fake” injuries sustained during violence on Eid in Jodhpur

Kinjal11th May 2022

Violence broke out in Jodhpur on the intervening night of May 2 and 3 after a group of BJP supporters forcibly removed Eid flags and loudspeakers. Following this, on the…

Manish Sisodia didn’t say ‘’AAP caused most riots in the country’’; edited video viral

Abhishek Kumar10th May 2022

A video of Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia, has gone viral on social media. He can be heard saying in the video that AAP…

Nehru’s portrait morphed into picture of Modi-Scholz meet in Germany

Shinjinee Majumder7th May 2022

An image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is going viral. The image shows the two leaders seated in front of a picture of Pandit Jawaharlal…

No, Rahul Gandhi is NOT with Chinese Ambassador to Nepal in this video

Abhishek Kumar & Mohammed Zubair7th May 20227th May 2022

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi travelled to Nepal recently. As per a May 2 article by a Nepali news portal, he was attending his friend Sumnima Udas’ wedding. Udas is a…

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Did Congress ‘disrespect’ saffron at Udaipur conclave? Misleading image viral

This video of cars torched in Sri Lanka is not from ex-PM Rajapaksa’s son’s house