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Cash retrieved from water pipe: 2021 Video of raid on Karnataka PWD staffer’s house viral with false claims

Prantik Ali3rd August 2023

A video is viral on social media that shows several men removing sections of a water pipe, and then retrieving bundles of cash which were hidden within the pipe. Social…

Nuh violence: Multiple old images viral in connection with clashes in Haryana

Shinjinee Majumder2nd August 20232nd August 2023

Multiple images claiming to be representative of the clashes that broke out between two groups in Haryana’s Muslim-dominated Nuh district on July 31 during Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Brij Mandal Jalabhishek…

Viral video: Assault on Greater Noida BJP leader result of local land dispute, not linked to Manipur situation

Prantik Ali2nd August 2023

A 45-second clip from Greater Noida is viral on social media which shows a man getting chased by a mob and thrashed brutally with sticks. It is being claimed that…

Assault on barely clad man, women: ‘Guruji’ Nirmal Singh Maharaj’s photo falsely viral with video from Sri Lanka

Shreyatama Datta29th July 20231st August 2023

The story uses only screenshots and not actual tweets in view of the graphic nature of the viral video. A video has gone viral on social media, which shows a…

Myamnar military exercise video viral as Kukis bombing Meitei areas in Manipur

Prantik Ali29th July 2023

A video is viral on social media which shows two persons releasing drones into the sky, followed by aerial footage of bombs being dropped on several houses. It is being…

BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla lies about Manmohan Singh on TV; ex-PM spoke on NE violence several times

Abhishek Kumar28th July 202328th July 2023

In a TV debate uploaded to TV9 Bharatvarsh’s YouTube channel on July 22, BJP’s national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla claimed that in the eight years before the NDA came to power…

Viral clip from Manipur does not mention massacre of Meiteis; video shared with wrong subtitles

Abhishek Kumar27th July 2023

Days after the horrific video of two women paraded naked in Manipur going viral, another video is being circulated widely on social media. In the 3-minute-long clip, a group of…

Viral video of molestation in Bihar’s Saran used to target Nitish-Tejashwi is from 2021 when NDA was in power

Abhishek Kumar27th July 2023

The story uses only screenshots and not actual tweets in view of the graphic nature of the viral video. A video of a woman being molested while she is seated…

7-yr-old video of political clash in Kerala falsely shared as Muslims throwing stones at Hindu houses

Oishani Bhattacharya24th July 2023

Social media users are sharing a video, seemingly CCTV footage, where a group of boys/men can be seen throwing stones. Their target, if any, is not visible in the clip….

Manipur video: State BJP leader, son’s photo falsely viral as accused in May 4 sexual assault

Shinjinee Majumder24th July 2023

An image of two men in apparent RSS uniform–black cap, white shirt and brown knee-length trousers–is viral with the claim that they were among the individuals accused in the Manipur…

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CRPF action on ‘Trinamool goons’? Old video from Bangladesh falsely viral

AI videos, fear, and communal polarization: Inside BJP’s hateful digital campaign in Bengal