Politics

Old image falsely viral as 34 Muslim families convert to Hinduism in UP

Archit16th December 2021

Former chairman of Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board Wasim Rizvi converted to Hindusim on December 6. In the backdrop of this, several social media users have shared an image of…

Video of young women drinking in public is scripted, misused to target Delhi CM

Kinjal15th December 202115th December 2021

A video featuring two young women consuming alcohol in public is viral on social media. The video shows a youth recording the women while policing them about liquor consumption in…

Video shared with false claim that SP MLA “Salim Haider” beat up a policeman

Kinjal13th December 2021

A video of a group of people beating a policeman is viral on social media. It has been claimed that “Mukhtar Ganj SP MLA Salim Haidar” and Ram Kripal Yadav…

False quote attributed to Ravish Kumar after General Bipin Rawat’s demise

Mohammed Zubair11th December 2021

After the death of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Bipin Rawat, and his wife in a helicopter crash near Coonoor, a viral claim began circulating on social media. It…

No, Akhilesh Yadav had not signed the petition to commute Kasab’s death sentence

Archit11th December 2021

Several social media users claimed that Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav was one of the 302 people who signed the petition to stop the capital punishment of Mohammed Ajmal Amir…

Video of Hindu groups protesting in Chhattisgarh shared as Mathura

Aqib Pathan9th December 20219th December 2021

In the last week of November, it was reported that a Mathura-based right-wing group Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha threatened to install a Krishna idol at the Shahi Idgah on December…

Unrelated video shared as crash-landing of Gen Bipin Rawat’s chopper

Priyanka Jha9th December 20219th December 2021

On December 8, 2021, 13 people including CDS Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat, and 11 others died when their helicopter crashed in Tamil Nadu’s Konnur area. Against this backdrop,…

Photo from Nikah ceremony shared as Quranic verses read in Sahitya Sammelan in Maharashtra

Priyanka Jha9th December 20219th December 2021

BJP leader Hariom Pandey recently shared an image claiming it was taken at a literature festival in Maharashtra. He claimed that literary festivals are now being commenced with a reading…

How disinformation led to the attack on missionary school in MP by right-wing groups

Archit & Mohammed Zubair9th December 20219th December 2021

On December 6, members of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal vandalised St Joseph Senior Higher Secondary in Madhya Pradesh’s Ganj Basoda, claiming that the school “converted” Hindu students…

Image from Gujarat shared as saint attacked in UP when Mulayam Singh was in power

Mohammed Zubair9th December 2021

Twitter user @Balram_Ayodhya tweeted an image of a police officer pulling a man by his hair and wrote, “It wasn’t a Jihadi who was pulling our saints by their hair……