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Video from UP falsely shared as 31 Rohingya ‘elected’ in West Bengal chanted ‘Pakistan Zindabad’

Anuradha Prasad25th May 2021

Several Twitter users have shared a video of a crowd raising slogans and claimed that a “thanks giving” rally was taken out by “some 31 Rohingyas” elected in the recent…

Video of pro-Palestine rally in Qatar viral as pro-Hamas rally held in Kerala’s Wayanad

Anuradha Prasad24th May 2021

A video of a pro-Palestine rally has been shared with the claim that the protest was held in Kerala, Wayanad, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s constituency. Twitter user @ByRakeshSimha claimed that…

Image morphed to falsely claim AP reporter donned Hamas headband

Abhishek Kumar24th May 2021

On May 18, an Israeli airstrike bombed the high-rise building housing Al Jazeera and The Associated Press’ offices in Gaza City. A screenshot of an article reporting the incident has…

The uncanny similarities between a 10-day old Twitter thread and the ‘toolkit’

Pratik Sinha22nd May 202122nd May 2021

On May 18, the top brass of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused the opposition Congress of conspiring a nefarious plan to gain political capital from the pandemic. The plan,…

Video of Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh’s meeting with Sri Lankan PM is from 2017

Archit22nd May 202110th August 2021

A video of Indian National Congress (INC) President Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meeting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been shared suggesting that she sidelined…

NYT did not carry image of a crocodile in tears after PM Modi’s address

Jignesh Patel22nd May 2021

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a video conference where he got emotional remembering those who succumbed to COVID-19, an image supposedly of The New York Times international edition published…

Video of lineman beaten in UP shared as West Bengal post-poll violence

Anuradha Prasad21st May 20213rd September 2021

A video of a mob beating and dragging a man has been circulated with the claim that the incident took place in West Bengal. The clip shows the people, the…

10-year-old video of symbolic protest in Egypt viral as Palestinians faking deaths

Abhishek Kumar20th May 202131st October 2023

A video showing what looks like several dead bodies covered in shrouds is viral on social media. On X (formerly Twitter), users have shared the video linking it to the…

No, an elderly man in Meerut did not stop Yogi Adityanath from entering his lane

Priyanka Jha20th May 2021

A video of an elderly man interacting with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is doing the rounds on social media. State President of West UP Youth Congress Omveer Yadav…

Man who said ‘We Want Mandir, Not Food’ hasn’t died of COVID

Anuradha Prasad20th May 2021

Two years ago, in a video by ScoopWhoop Unscripted, a man attending a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) rally to demand a bill for the construction of Ram Mandir, had said,…

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When devotion takes a violent turn: 2025 Kanwar Yatra marred by cases of vandalism, assault as cops look on

Assam Tribune rejects column critical of BJP & Himanta, asks veteran journalist to ‘focus only on Meghalaya’