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Congress shares 2012 image of PM Modi with ducks as PR during COVID-19

Pooja Chaudhuri26th August 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently shared a video of himself with peacocks at his Lok Kalyan Marg residence. This was picked up by nearly every mainstream media outlet and soon…

Video of Delhi cop beating minor is not an old video of armed chain snatcher

Pooja Chaudhuri26th August 202027th August 2020

On August 24, Mojo Story tweeted a video of a policeman mercilessly beating up a young boy. The channel, founded by journalist Barkha Dutt, reported that the boy was wandering…

Fact-check: BJP leader Kalicharan Saraf misbehaved with woman on stage?

Kinjal26th August 2020

A video of a man grabbing a woman’s waist as she greets him by placing a garland around his neck has been going viral on social media. Users are claiming…

Video from West Bengal passed off as communal violence in Bengaluru

Priyanka Jha26th August 2020

On the night of August 11, three people had died in deadly clashes that broke out in Bengaluru. The violence had been sparked by a Facebook post. Naveen, the nephew…

No, this is not Facebook’s Ankhi Das cutting tricoloured cake

Kinjal25th August 2020

Two pictures of a lady cutting a tricoloured cake are widely shared on social media. It is being claimed that she is Facebook India’s Public Policy Director, Ankhi Das, disrespecting…

Photo of ashram in Kerala viral as ‘proof’ of Indian culture’s influence in New Zealand

Kinjal24th August 2020

Recently, a photo of people sitting in a communal setting and eating food has been making the rounds on social media, with netizens claiming this is from New Zealand. The…

Fact-check: Did Supreme Court change its motto to ‘Yato Dharmastato Jai’ from ‘Satyamev Jayate’ ?

Priyanka Jha23rd August 202023rd August 2020

Social media has been abuzz recently with many users claiming that the Supreme Court changed its motto ‘Satyamev Jayate’ to ‘Yato Dharmastato Jai’. On August 21, 2020, Sunil Astay of…

Old image of giant sinkhole in the middle of a road in Ahmedabad shared as Varanasi

Kinjal23rd August 202011th August 2021

A picture of a giant sinkhole in the middle of a road is being shared on social media with the claim that it is from the city of Varanasi in…

The link between misinformation and radicalisation: Revisiting a Delhi riots hate speech video

Archit22nd August 2020

The peaceful protests against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 in the national capital turned violent on February 23. Riots between Hindu and Muslim communities prevailed for a week in…

Satirical photo of PM Modi bowing to Nehru’s statue shared as real

Kinjal22nd August 2020

“If you’re bowing down to him after bashing him and speaking ill of him for 6 years, then understand that his ideology and thinking are greater than you,” reads a…

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Why PM Modi’s dig at ‘infiltrators’ in Independence Day speech could spell trouble

Voter list ‘errors’: Several of EC’s ‘fact checks’ make no sense, mislead people further