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2020 video from Pakistan falsely shared as demolition of 100-yr-old Shiva temple

Kalim Ahmed12th January 2023

A 35-second long clip of a mob breaking a structure is going viral on social media as a video from Pakistan where people are destroying a 100-year-old Shiva temple. Sharing…

Fact Check: Nirmala Sitharaman is not meeting her dad in viral clip

Vansh Shah11th January 2023

In the past couple of days, several social media users have shared a video of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman meeting an elderly man, claiming that he is the minister’s father…

BJP leaders, media outlets shared unrelated photos as Vande Bharat vandalism

Abhishek Kumar10th January 202310th January 2023

On December 30, Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually flagged off the Vande Bharat Express connecting Howrah to New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal. Three days later, there were reports of stone…

Amit Malviya, Sambit Patra tweet clipped video to mock Rahul’s slip of tongue

Shinjinee Majumder9th January 20239th January 2023

A clip of Rahul Gandhi’s speech where he apparently measures the country’s population in Rupees while addressing a rally is viral on social media. In the video, Gandhi can be…

Amid mounting Pak-Taliban tension, Tarek Fatah shares 7-year-old video of public execution

Archit9th January 2023

On January 6, Canadian columnist Tarek Fatah tweeted a video along with the text, “CAUTION: Disturbing Video: Taliban jihadis hang and then shoot dead a captured Pakistani soldier. As Makcolm…

Did Rahul say he had a problem with priests? No, yet another clipped video shared without context by Amit Malviya

Kalim Ahmed9th January 20239th January 2023

A seven-second-long clip of Rahul Gandhi speaking at a press conference is going viral on social media. In this clip, the Congress leader can be heard saying in Hindi, “This…

Doctored clip: Bhojpuri song added to video of Rahul Gandhi attending concert

Abhishek Kumar9th January 20239th January 2023

A video of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi sitting with Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot is viral on social media. The clip shows the two leaders attending a musical programme where…

Viral photo of children in torn clothes studying in makeshift classroom not from India

Archit7th January 2023

An image of children studying in what appears to be a makeshift classroom is shared on social media with the claim that it is from India. Samajwadi Party leader IP…

Haldwani eviction: BJP leaders share 10-yr-old Kolkata pic with misleading claim

Kalim Ahmed6th January 2023

On December 20, 2022, Uttarakhand high court passed an order to evict over 4,000 families from land claimed by the Railways in Haldwani. The court’s decision was later challenged in…

Old video of Kolkata slums shared as illegal encroachments in Haldwani

Archit5th January 2023

On December 20, 2022, the Uttarakhand high court ordered the eviction of close to 50,000 people allegedly living on railway land in the state’s Haldwani district. Following this, people facing…

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Aaj Tak’s Anjana Om Kashyap calls 1979 Iran hostage crisis ‘Breaking News’, apologizes after being corrected

Netanyahu’s brother killed in Iranian missile strike at his home? Unrelated video from US falsely viral