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A beef over buff: Vigilantes in Aligarh assaulted Muslims over buffalo meat, booked them for cow slaughter

Shinjinee Majumder3rd June 20253rd June 2025

A strange series events unfolded in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh in the last week of May. A mob with links to Hindutva groups brutally thrashed four Muslim men over suspicion of…

Republic used Indian creator’s satiric reel on prime time; claimed Pakistani civilians were slamming their country

Prantik Ali2nd June 2025

Social media users are sharing a video of a man ridiculing Pakistan’s claims of victory in the recent four-day conflict with India, which was the most serious military crisis between…

Assam Police beating up ‘pro-Pakistan Bangladeshis’? Old video from Bengal shared with misleading communal claims

Pawan Kumar2nd June 2025

On May 12, 2025, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted that three more people had been arrested in his state on charges of sedition, bringing the tally to a…

Dhaka women’s ‘friendship march’ video falsely shared as West Bengal, inviting filthy comments

Kinjal2nd June 2025

A video clip of a group of women raising slogans on the roadside has been gathering a lot of traction on social media. The women in the video are seen…

Republic, Times, TV9 et al amplified morphed photo of Preity Zinta hugging Vaibhav Suryavanshi

Pawan Kumar2nd June 20252nd June 2025

Amid military tensions between India and Pakistan, the managers of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on May 9 announced the postponement of the 18th season of the IPL for a…

Op Sindoor: As Indian media made false, outrageous claims, PIB looked the other way

Shinjinee Majumder31st May 20251st June 2025

The second week of May was a busy time for fact-checkers at Union government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB) as it put out 68 fact-checks related to Operation Sindoor. While examining…

News outlets first publish, then delete reports based on fake video of Pak’s Ahmed Sharif ‘confirming’ loss of jets

Ankita Mahalanobish31st May 20253rd June 2025

In a viral video, Pakistan’s lieutenant general Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary, who is the director general (DG) of the inter-services public relations (ISPR) for the country’s armed forces, admitted that two…

AI-generated video of Donald Trump ‘roasting’ Indian Air Force goes viral

Ankita Mahalanobish30th May 2025

A YouTube short in which United States President Donald Trump is taking a swipe at Indian Air Force pilots over reports of Rafale jets being struck down by Pakistan in…

Not a pro-Pakistan rally in Kerala, these videos are of Indian Union Muslim League’s protests against Waqf Act

Ankita Mahalanobish29th May 2025

A video of men in green jerseys sloganeering in Malayalam is being dubbed as pro-Pakistan activism in Kerala by social media users. In the video, the men are waving green…

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Operation Sindoor: Grief on the ground, glory on TV screens

Video from 2023 Nepal plane crash viral as last moments from inside Air India flight that crashed in Ahmedabad