Javed Akhtar, Banu Mushtaq and the contagion of religious sentiments getting hurt
In two related but unconnected developments, writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar and International Booker Prize-winning author Banu Mushtaq have found themselves in the midst of controversies after being invited to speak at...
Letter claiming ‘RSS did not participate in anti-British movement’ is morphed
An image of a purported historic document with the text “RSS did not participate in any anti-British movement from 1925 to 1947” bearing the emblem of the British Home Department...
Sandeep Thakur, who identifies as head of social media and IT intellectual cell of BJP Delhi, shared a video on Twitter (archive link) with the claim that Muslim commuters spat…
On November 12, BJP MP Satya Pal Singh posted an image of US Vice President-elect Kamal Harris in a saree and later deleted it. He wrote, “America’s Vice President-elect Kamala…
After NDA regained power in Bihar assembly elections, RJD made allegations of foul play in the counting of postal ballot papers. Some images are now viral on social media where…
Images of 2020 US President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden with a man has been widely shared on the internet. It is being claimed that the said man…
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) tweeted a video of booth capturing alluding that it took place in the recently-concluded Bihar elections where the party lost to NDA. “Such elections are held…
Joe Biden emerged as the winner and the 46th President of the United States in the recently-concluded US Presidental elections. He is set to take the presidential oath at his…
Recently, a number of social media users have been claiming that the right to vote has been taken away from the Muslim community in Denmark. One such tweet came from…
The photo of a multi-storeyed building is viral on Twitter with the claim that it is a 400-bed hotel at Jamia Milia Islamia, where only Muslim students aspiring to be…
A video of an Islamic funeral procession is widespread on Facebook with a Tamil caption claiming that a massive funeral service was conducted for 18-year-old teenager Abdullakh Anzorov who was…
In the backdrop of the Bihar assembly elections, a video of a child pushing a stretcher with a patient lying on it is circulating on social media. On the other…