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No, Congress poster in Kerala doesn’t talk about beef eating. Old pic viral with false claim

Kinjal9th March 2023

A poster with a Malayali message and the image of a person eating from a plate is making the rounds on social media. It also features a photo of Congress…

Videos of violence falsely viral as Bajrang Dal members attacking people on Sonipat-Panipat Highway

Kalim Ahmed & Vansh Shah9th March 2023

Trigger Warning: Descriptions of violence Two violent videos are circulating on social media as visuals from Sonipat, Haryana where individuals are mercilessly being attacked and tortured. It is alleged that…

Media falsely links deaths of two Bihari labourers to ‘attacks’ on migrant workers in Tamil Nadu

Mohammed Zubair & Abhishek Kumar7th March 2023

Recently, a number of videos have been shared widely on social media as attacks on Bihari labourers in Tamil Nadu. Alt News has already fact-checked five viral claims and found…

Tamil Nadu hasn’t asked migrant labourers to leave state; Viral news clip is made with mobile app

Kalim Ahmed6th March 2023

Reports of multiple incidents of Hindi-speaking migrant labourers allegedly being attacked in Tamil Nadu have flooded social media in the past few days. Alt News has already fact-checked five such…

2020 video of Modi effigy shared out of context with misleading claims

Vansh Shah6th March 20236th March 2023

Clashes broke out between the police and the supporters of Amritpal Singh, the leader of pro-Khalistan outfit Waris Punjab De, outside a police station in Ajnala, Amritsar, on February 23,…

Umesh Pal murder: Did Yogi Adityanath smear himself with ashes from dead cop’s pyre? Old video viral

Abhishek Kumar4th March 20234th March 2023

A video of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath is gathering a lot of traction on social media. In the clip, he can be seen applying ashes from the ground…

Fact check: Photo of Tamil Nadu BJP leaders sitting with beer bottles is morphed

Kinjal4th March 20234th March 2023

A photo of a group of men seated around a dining table is gathering a lot of traction on social media. In the picture, BJP Tamil Nadu general secretary Keshav…

Violation of IFCN norms: Vishvas News response evades key charges brought by Alt News

Archit & Abhishek Kumar3rd March 20233rd March 2023

On February 20, Alt News reported that Jagran Media’s Vishvas News, a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), did not follow at least two IFCN codes of conduct —…

Multiple unrelated videos viral as attack on migrant labourers in Tamil Nadu

Kalim Ahmed2nd March 2023

Recently a video went viral on social media in which an individual can be seen verbally and physically assaulting Hindi-speaking migrant labourers in a crowded train compartment. In the video,…

Queue of customers outside Bank of Baroda in UAE got nothing to do with Adani fiasco

Abhishek Kumar2nd March 2023

Recently, Bank of Baroda CEO and managing director Sanjeev Chadha announced that the bank was ready to issue a loan to the Adani Group if the lender met the bank’s…

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Did Rahul Gandhi say ‘I don’t get any disease, I have direct connection with God’? No, viral video is clipped

Photos from Bangladeshi films shared to back cooked-up ‘Love Jihad’ story