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Old image shared as BJP leaders visit COVID positive Dilip Ghosh without wearing masks

Archit19th October 202019th October 2020

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh was tested COVID-19 positive on October 16. NDTV reported Ghosh was admitted to the high dependency unit at a private hospital. On October 18,…

Old video of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s convoy attacked shared as recent ahead of state polls

Kinjal19th October 2020

A video of people pelting stones and bricks at cars passing by a road is viral on social media with the claim that they attacked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s…

Image of convict hanged in Nirbhaya rape case falsely as juvenile convict

Kinjal19th October 2020

An image of a man escorted by the police has been shared on Twitter and Facebook with the claim that he is the juvenile convict in the 2012 Nirbhaya rape…

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad falsely claimed to be with ‘Naxal bhabhi’ in this photo

Archit17th October 2020

A 19-year old Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras. She succumbed to injuries on September 29. Since then, there has been an outpour of misinformation on social…

Digvijay Singh shares cropped, already debunked video of BJP’s Nandkumar Singh Chauhan

Priyanka Jha17th October 2020

Congress leader Digvijay Singh tweeted a six-second video on October 15. The clip features former Madhya Pradesh BJP president and MP from Khandwa, Nandkumar Singh Chauhan. He can be heard…

Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah’s portrait at AMU

Pooja Chaudhuri17th October 202017th October 2020

The Congress party has fielded former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student leader Maskoor Usmani as a candidate for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections. He will be contesting from Jale constituency…

BJP Bihar Minister shares image of flyover in Hyderabad as Bihar

Pooja Chaudhuri16th October 2020

Suresh Kumar Sharma, Minister Of Urban Development and Housing Department in Bihar government, shared a poster of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with an image of a flyover. The poster…

MP Congress shares debunked mock drill clip in video targeting Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Jignesh Patel16th October 202016th October 2020

The upcoming by-elections in Madhya Pradesh have led political parties to take the support of misinformation for one-upmanship. A few days ago, MP Congress and Digvijay Singh had shared an…

Viral: Man poses as Aaditya Thackeray portrays him confessing to ‘murdering’ Sushant Singh Rajput

Kinjal15th October 202015th October 2020

A two-minute-long clip of a man claiming to be Maharashtra MLA Aaditya Thackeray has been going viral on social media platforms. In the video, the individual confesses to murdering Bollywood…

Shefali Vaidya did not pass off imitation jewellery as Tanishq piece, morphed tweet viral

Pooja Chaudhuri15th October 2020

Shefali Vaidya, BJP supporter and vocal Hindutva activist, has been critical of a recent Tanishq advertisement featuring an interfaith couple. Vaidya was among those asking for a boycott of the…