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    Oishani Bhattacharya

    Video of Yazidi women rescued by Syrian forces viral with false claims that they’re Hindus from India, Bangladesh

    27th May 202328th May 2023
    A video is viral on social media with the claim that the UN (United Nations) Army has rescued 38 women from ISIS tents, who were kept there as sex slaves...
    Video of Yazidi women rescued by Syrian forces viral with false claims that they’re Hindus from India, Bangladesh
    Vansh Shah

    Actress Devoleena Bhattacharjee is not part of The Kerala Story, viral claim false

    27th May 202327th May 2023
    Following the release of ‘The Kerala Story’, television actress Devoleena Bhattacharjee has been targeted by social media users over her marriage with Shahnawaz Sheikh. The actress married Sheikh, who was...
    Actress Devoleena Bhattacharjee is not part of The Kerala Story, viral claim false

    Power bill defaulter assaults staffer: Incident unrelated to Cong’s free electricity promise; viral claims false

    Kalim Ahmed25th May 2023

    A video circulating on social media shows a man physically roughing up and verbally abusing an employee of Gulbarga Electricity Supply Company Limited (GESCOM) in Karnataka’s Koppal district. The video…

    ISIS atrocities on women: Scene from street play viral with misleading claims

    Abhishek Kumar24th May 2023

    A video of an elderly man removing the veils from the faces of burqa-clad girls standing in a queue is making the rounds on social media. It has been claimed…

    Congress war room video viral as IT firm staff celebrating Karnataka poll results

    Shinjinee Majumder23rd May 202324th May 2023

    Against the backdrop of Congress’s victory in the Karnataka elections, a clip has gone viral with the claim that it shows employees at an IT company celebrating the results. User…

    News outlets show AI-generated image, falsely report blast near Pentagon, USA

    Kalim Ahmed23rd May 202323rd May 2023

    Late in the evening of Monday, May 22, multiple Indian electronic media outlets began to air reports of a presumed explosion near the Pentagon in Washington, United States. While some…

    Fact check: Video of boy praying in the middle of a road is not from Karnataka

    Vansh Shah23rd May 202323rd May 2023

    Against the backdrop of the Congress victory in the Karnataka Assembly elections, a video has gone viral on social media platforms showing a young boy offering prayers (namaz) in the…

    Video of children going to Kolhapur madrasa viral with ‘Rohingya’ claim

    Oishani Bhattacharya22nd May 202322nd May 2023

    A truck in which several minor boys were travelling was intercepted by police in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur recently. A video of the boys — most of them wearing skullcaps — disembarking…

    Scene from 2017 Kerala street play viral as murder of RSS supporter by Muslims

    Vansh Shah20th May 202320th May 2023

    A video of a woman being shot in public after being dragged out of a car by two men is viral on social media. The video is shared with a…

    Photo of park in Bangladesh shared as decked-up Boulevard Road in Srinagar

    Shinjinee Majumder20th May 202320th May 2023

    An image apparently clicked at Srinagar’s Boulevard Road is viral on social media. Users claim that the image is a ‘stunning symbol of transformation’ ahead of the G20 meet in…

    Provocative speech by Bangladeshi ‘Islamic scholar’ condemning Yati Narsinghanand viral with false claims

    Abira Das19th May 2023

    A video of a man speaking on a hand-held loudspeaker standing amid a queue of people is viral on social media. He says, “अभी भी वक्त है हिन्दुओं, सौदा कर…

    Telangana, Maharashtra videos shared out of context with false claims about Cong high-handedness in Karnataka

    Oishani Bhattacharya19th May 2023

    Even as the Congress picked Siddaramaiah as the chief minister for Karnataka after its victory in the assembly polls, several videos of interactions of mostly Muslim men with the police…

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