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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,…

Video game clips viral as Israel shooting down Iran, Turkey fighter jets

Archit20th May 202120th May 2021

A video of shots fired at fighter jets has gone viral on social media with the claim that Turkish and Iranian aircraft were shot by Israel. Turkey and Iran supported…

Old video falsely shared as JeM raising anti-India slogans after Mamata Banerjee’s victory

Anuradha Prasad19th May 2021

A video has been shared on social media with the claim, “Jaish-e-Mohammed’s spirits elevated after Mamata Banerjee’s victory in West Bengal. They even took out a procession. Listen to #Jaish-e-Mohammed’s…

‘COVID toolkit’ attributed to Congress created on forged letterhead

Pooja Chaudhuri & Pratik Sinha19th May 202119th May 2021

An alleged document prepared by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) to “corner the Modi government and various BJP governments in the country” through social media and on-ground strategies was…

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Rare earths and rebel armies: How a conspiracy story with no evidence jumped from fringe sites to newsrooms

Bulldozer action in Kolkata: Demolition stayed by court, panic and uncertainty linger