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Old videos from West Bengal shared as BJP leaders attacked in Bihar during poll campaigning

Kinjal29th July 2020

A video of a crowd attacking a man adorning a scarf of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and another video of men dressed in white heckled by an unruly mob…

Old image of water-logged lane in Punjab shared as Delhi to target CM Kejriwal

Kinjal28th July 202028th July 2020

General Secretary of BJP Delhi Ravinder Gupta shared a photograph of a family sipping tea in a water-logged lane. Gupta attacked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government…

SP’s Azam Khan did not remark on Ram Mandir: News Track Live, Swarajya misreport

Sam Jawed27th July 202028th July 2020

News portal News Track Live published an article that Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan has declared that he is a ‘Ram bhakt’ and treatened to take his life by…

Old images falsely shared as Indian fighter jets shot down by Nepal

Archit25th July 202027th July 2020

Twitter user Irmak Idoya tweeted two images — a fighter plane on fire and people surrounding debris — and wrote, “Indian airforce had crossed the border to conduct airstrike on…

Ad agency with BJP connection handles social media for Maharashtra Election Commission

Pooja Chaudhuri & Pratik Sinha24th July 202024th July 2020

Activist Saket Gokhale posted a tweet thread on July 23 alleging that the Election Commission of India “hired” the IT cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to manage their…

Video from Haryana falsely shared as caste-based violence in UP

Archit22nd July 202022nd July 2020

A video of a group of men brutally thrashing a man with lathis is widely circulating on social media with the claim that a mob of Thakurs beat up a man from…

Video of patients crowding cancer hospital in Patna shared with false claims

Archit21st July 2020

A 30-second video that shows an over-crowded waiting area of a hospital has gone viral. Everyone in the video can be seen wearing a mask. Twitter user @RenukaJain6 shared the…

Priyanka Gandhi shares old images of Assam, Bihar flood as recent

Kinjal21st July 2020

Several parts of the country are facing severe deluge. Over 100 people have died in Assam and more than 30 have lost their lives in incidents related to heavy rainfall…

Fact-check: Was the bridge that collapsed in Bihar part of Rs 264 crore Sattarghat project?

Priyanka Jha18th July 2020

On July 16, the country woke up to the news of Sattarghat bridge in Bihar collapsing a month after it was inaugurated. Flooding in Gandak river damaged the bridge reportedly…

Congress leader Acharya Pramod shares old image as ‘Brahmans’ burning BJP flags

Archit17th July 202017th July 2020

On July 15, Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam posted an image of men burning BJP flags on Twitter (archive link) and Facebook. Krishnam claimed that members of the Brahman community…

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Hindu teacher garlanded with shoes in Bangladesh? No, video viral with false communal claims

Dainik Bhaskar, OpIndia misreport that 300 illegal firearms & 50,000 cartridges seized from Lucknow man