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Fact check: Video of Congress leader protesting with daughter near Parliament is from 2019

Oishani Bhattacharya7th May 2023

[The story uses only screenshots of relevant social media posts, instead of embedding the actual posts, to hold back the identity of the minor girl involved] A video featuring a…

DCP on Bengaluru ‘child theft’: Accused mentally unsound, under treatment at NIMHANS, did not try to kidnap kid

Kalim Ahmed6th May 2023

A 35-second clip showing a group of individuals — a few men wearing skullcaps and a woman wearing a burqa — being carried away by the police is circulating on…

Locals taking shelter in Kolkata mall: How a viral video metamorphosed into hateful, Islamophobic social media post

Indradeep Bhattacharyya2nd May 20233rd May 2023

In the evening of April 17, as Kolkata was still soaking in the ‘Naboborsho’ (Bengali New Year) mood in spite of an already unforgiving summer, a video started to go…

Car tyre advertisement edited with ‘Modi Hatao desh bachao’ message viral

Oishani Bhattacharya2nd May 2023

With the Karnataka assembly elections days away, a video featuring a man refusing to buy a carry bag after shopping at a supermarket has gone viral on social media. It…

Return of suspended accounts, policy muddle make Musk’s Twitter a ‘free-for-all hellscape’

Kalim Ahmed2nd May 20232nd May 2023

In April 2022, Twitter announced that it had accepted tech mogul Elon Musk’s offer to acquire the company at a whopping $44 billion, following which it would become a privately…

Viral photo of grave with iron grille is from Hyderabad, not Pakistan

Shinjinee Majumder & Mohammed Zubair30th April 202312th July 2024

The image of a padlocked grave has been shared by an X (Twitter) user named Cillian (@CilComLFC) with the claim that parents in Pakistan are putting padlocks on the graves…

Viral shark attack video is computer generated, not from Atlantic Ocean or Canada

Oishani Bhattacharya27th April 2023

A video of an aquatic creature — seemingly a shark — destroying a ship has gone viral on social media. The video is apparently shot from a helicopter flying alongside…

Fact check: Man beating up guy in viral video is not UP BJP MLA Vipul Dubey

Vansh Shah27th April 2023

Recently, a video went viral on social media in which a man can be seen getting beaten up with a stick. Users shared the video with a caption in Hindi,…

Fact check: Diljit Dosanjh did not object to Indian flag being waved at Coachella

Shinjinee Majumder26th April 202327th April 2023

A clip of Diljit Dosanjh’s performance at the Coachella music festival in California is viral with the claim that Diljit objected to a girl waving the Indian flag during his…

2022 video from Telangana viral as attack on BJP campaign vehicle in Karnataka

Vansh Shah24th April 2023

Karnataka is going to the polls on and from May 10, 2023. The BJP, the Congress, and some regional parties will lock horns to get a majority in the 224-seat…

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Narrative Warfare: How an Inauthentic Disinformation Network Targeted India’s Rare Earth Outreach in Myanmar

Video of Dhaka eviction drive falsely claimed as BJP bulldozer action against ‘Bangladeshis’ in Bengal