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Govt fact-checks its own fact-checking arm PIB on false news about IB recruitment

Pooja Chaudhuri19th December 202019th December 2020

A now-deleted tweet by government-run PIB Fact Check claimed that an Intelligence Bureau (IB) recruitment circular floating online has not been issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and…

No, farmer leader VM Singh whose net worth is Rs 600 cr is not Congress leader

Kinjal18th December 2020

As the farmers’ protest now enters its fourth month, social media has been rife with a number of different viral claims linked to the ongoing movement, many of which were…

No, BJP leader ‘Umesh Singh’ wasn’t beaten for raising pro-Pak slogans at farmers’ protest

Archit & Kinjal18th December 2020

A clip of a mob thrashing a man being escorted by a police officer has been shared on Facebook and Twitter. The video has a logo of Lucknow-based TV news…

No, PM Modi is not bowing to Priti Adani in this photo

Archit18th December 202018th December 2020

Several social media users have posted an image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting a woman and claimed that she is Priti Adani, wife of billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani. This…

No, this is not PM Modi and Jashodaben’s wedding photograph

Mohammed Zubair & Aqib Pathan16th December 202016th December 2020

On 15 December, journalist Swati Chaturvedi tweeted an image of PM Modi with the caption, ”Does this look like a forced child marriage took you? Yet, Modi never declared this…

Indian Railways ‘sold’ to Adani? No, images of ads on trains viral with false claim

Archit15th December 202016th December 2020

In the second week of December, a video that shows Fortune Atta’s ad on an Indian Railway locomotive was widely shared with the claim Adani had taken over Indian Railways….

Congress leaders falsely claim Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport renamed to ‘Adani Airports’

Pooja Chaudhuri15th December 202015th December 2020

“Ahmedabad airport has been renamed from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to Adani,” tweeted MP Congress with a photograph of a billboard that says ‘Adani | Airports’. The tweet drew over 3,000…

Digitally-created image viral as Shahrukh Khan’s lookalike discovered in Kashmir

Archit14th December 2020

An image of a young boy who looks strikingly like Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan is circulating on social media with the claim that the boy is from Kashmir. Jammu &…

Images of protests held in the past shared as massive crowd at farmers’ protest

Archit14th December 2020

Farmers have been protesting against the centre’s new agricultural laws since the past few months. As per a report by The Indian Express, ‘Bharat Bandh’ strike observed by the farmers…

Image from 2014 viral as PM Modi meets Ambani’s grandchild at hospital

Aqib Pathan14th December 202014th December 2020

Industrialist Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Foundation chairwoman Nita Ambani recently became grandparents. An image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the couple is massively viral on social media. It…