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Video shared to make misleading claim that Hathras victim’s family did her last rites

Pooja Chaudhuri30th September 20201st October 2020

A 19-year-old Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras was allegedly tortured and gang-raped by four upper-caste men on September 14. She succumbed to her injuries on September 29. The UP…

Old images and videos of farmer protests shared as recent

Kinjal30th September 2020

Farmers have been holding demonstrations across the country in protest of the agricultural ordinances that were recently passed in the Parliament. Amidst this, some pictures and videos were being circulated…

Photos of protests against gold smuggling case in Kerala shared as farmer protests

Kinjal30th September 202030th September 2020

Few images of injured protesters are circulating on social media with the claim that they depict farmers who were beaten during the ongoing protests. It is also being claimed that…

Fact-check: Did Yogi Adityanath say dead Muslim women should be raped?

Priyanka Jha & Anuradha Prasad29th September 20201st October 2020

A video featuring Abhishek Banerjee has been trending recently on social media. Banerjee is a Trinamool Congress MP and the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In the…

Old video of ink attack on BJP MP shared as recent amid farmers protest

Priyanka Jha29th September 20202nd January 2021

A video of ink thrown on a man is getting circulated on social media. It is being claimed that the man is ‘Haryana BJP MP Raj Kumar Saini’. The clip…

Video of cruise ship in Greece viral as ferry service in Gujarat

Archit29th September 202031st January 2022

Two videos of a ship have gone viral on social media with the claim that a transportation service from Bhavnagar to Bharuch has been started by Prime Minister Modi. As…

Video of Manmohan Singh swapping seats with Sonia Gandhi shared with misleading claim

Pooja Chaudhuri28th September 202029th May 2023

A video of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi swapping chairs is being shared with the claim that the ex-PM was made to vacate his seat…

Photos of shopkeepers sleeping inside shops from 2019 shared as recent

Kinjal28th September 2020

On September 24, Rohan Gupta, chairman of the social media department of the Indian National Congress, tweeted pictures that showed shopkeepers sleeping next to their merchandise. Gupta wrote in his…

Congress uses images from UPA rule to represent plight of farmers under Modi govt

Archit26th September 2020

The recent agricultural reforms face protests from farmers across the nation who fear that the legislation will not ensure Minimum Support Price (MSP) on agricultural produce. On September 24, the…

PM Modi’s edited clip shared to claim he made the ‘potato-gold’ machine remark

Priyanka Jha25th September 2020

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has been repeatedly mocked in the last few years by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and their followers for the infamous ‘potato-gold’ machine remark. A…

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Unrelated videos viral as footage of weapon seizure in Lucknow with communal claims

Muslim man held minor girl at knifepoint after failed ‘love jihad’ attempt? No, video viral with false communal claims