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Fact-checking political speech: Facebook’s myopic policy and inconsistent standard

Pooja Chaudhuri26th November 202026th November 2020

American actor-writer Sacha Baron Cohen had said in a scathing speech that had Facebook existed in the 1930s, the company would have permitted Hiter to run political ads on the…

No, this is not a ‘rare’ video of young Narendra Modi doing Yoga

Kinjal25th November 202021st May 2021

A black and white video of a man doing yoga has been making the rounds on social media. “Identify this ascetic who later become Prime Minister. A rare and amazing…

Morphed tweet claims BJP announced alliance with AIMIM for West Bengal elections

Anuradha Prasad25th November 202025th November 2020

Twitter user Deepak Shukla recently shared an alleged tweet by the BJP announcing an alliance with the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) for next year’s West Bengal assembly elections. In the…

Spoof video from 15 years ago falsely viral as Volkswagen ad ‘mocks’ Muslims

Archit24th November 202025th November 2020

BJP spokesperson Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga tweeted (archive link) a 30-second clip and wrote: “Terrorist Commercial Ad by Volkswagen” Interesting? The video shows a man in a suicide vest drive…

Clip from 1963 movie viral yet again as ‘real’ footage of Savarkar in Andaman prison

Anuradha Prasad24th November 202022nd November 2022

A 1.39-minute video is viral on social media in which a man can be seen inside a prison cell while a voice-over narrates his feelings. Many users claimed that the…

False dataset made viral to claim US elections registered more votes than voters

Archit24th November 2020

On November 19, Rudy Giuliani and members of the Trump campaign legal team held a 90-minute press conference and made multiple allegations about voter fraud in the US Presidential elections….

Fact-check: Did Rajputs in Rajasthan fire gunshots to protest cracker ban on Diwali?

Priyanka Jha23rd November 202023rd November 2020

A video has been shared on social media with the claim that due to firecrackers banned in Rajasthan, Rajputs celebrated Diwali by firing gunshots in the air. राजस्थान में…

Old video shared as Vedic mantras chanted on Biden’s ‘first day’ now viral as Kamala Harris

Kinjal21st November 20202nd December 2020

A video is widely circulating on social media with the claim that mantras were chanted and Sanatana dharma was worshipped on Kamala Harris’s ‘first day’ as Vice President of the…

Video of woman’s charred dead body found in Karnataka falsely viral as UP and Bihar

Priyanka Jha21st November 2020

A disturbing video claimed to be from Uttar Pradesh has been making the rounds on social media. The clip shows a charred dead body of a girl. Several users are…

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Javed Akhtar, Banu Mushtaq and the contagion of religious sentiments getting hurt

Letter claiming ‘RSS did not participate in anti-British movement’ is morphed