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Image of NATO-G7 emergency meeting shared with a misleading claim about Modi not being invited

Kalim Ahmed21st November 2022

Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile attack in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine. The explosion…

Did Modi halt Ukraine war for evacuating Indians? BJP leaders’ claim was refuted by MEA

Mahaprajna Nayak & Abhishek Kumar15th November 202224th February 2023

Several prominent BJP leaders have claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi intervened to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine for some hours so that Indian students caught in the…

‘Golden Dragon’ video from China viral on social media as Diwali celebrations in Kerala

Mahaprajna Nayak9th November 20229th November 2022

A video of a glittering fleet of boats cruising in a serpentine motion supposedly on a river in Kerala has been doing the rounds on social media with the hashtag…

Ex-I&B minister, other BJP leaders share clipped video of Ashok Gehlot with misleading claim

Abhishek Kumar7th November 2022

A short clip of chief minister Ashok Gehlot speaking to the media from his car is viral on social media. Responding to a question about various leaders giving statements, he…

Video of ED raid in Kolkata falsely shared again, this time as crackdown on Surat BJP leader

Shinjinee Majumder5th November 202214th June 2023

A video apparently showing visuals of a raid by the Enforcement Directorate at the house of Surat-based BJP leader Shikhar Agarwal is viral on social media. Last month, a user…

Defying bail terms, Yati Narsinghanand continues to deliver hate speech. When will law catch up with him?

Kalim Ahmed4th November 202217th November 2022

On April 3, 2022, just about two months after Yati Narsinghanand got bail in the Haridwar Dharam Sansad hate speech case on the condition that he would not deliver provocative…

Housing scheme poster tweeted by Amit Shah features Saroo Brierley, man who traced back his family after 25 yrs

Mahaprajna Nayak2nd November 2022

The Prime Minister is set to inaugurate 3024 newly-built houses for the economically weaker section (EWS) in Delhi to rehabilitate people living in slums as part of a slum rehabilitation…

Child deaths in Indonesia: No evidence so far of Indian syrups causing fatal kidney diseases

Kalim Ahmed2nd November 2022

In the first week of October, the World Health Organization (WHO) made a medical product alert about substandard (contaminated) pediatric medicines identified in The Gambia, a small west African country….

Misinformation, false claims about UK PM Rishi Sunak flood social media

Shinjinee Majumder29th October 2022

On October 27, the United Kingdom got its first non-white Prime Minister in Rishi Sunak. At 42, the former chancellor of the exchequer also became Britain’s youngest Prime Minister in…