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OpIndia changes Indian journo Jawed Naqvi’s nationality to ‘Pakistani’ to take a swipe at Scroll

Pooja Chaudhuri8th October 2020

“Scroll gives space to Pakistani author to blame India for tensions between the two countries,” claimed pro-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) propaganda website OpIndia in a piece from October 6, 2020….

Morphed tweet portrays actor Ali Fazal celebrating IB staffer Ankit Sharma’s death in Delhi riots

Pooja Chaudhuri7th October 20208th October 2020

As the trailer for the second season of Hindi crime series ‘Mirzapur’ released on Tuesday, a section of Twitter users have been trending #BoycottMirzapur2. The show’s lead actor Ali Fazal…

BJP leader Dilip Ghosh shares old photo from Bihar as West Bengal farmers supporting PM Modi

Pooja Chaudhuri7th October 20207th October 2020

“Farmers of Bengal, extending their gratitude towards Hon’ble Prime Minister,” tweeted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) West Bengal President Dilip Ghosh on October 7. Ghosh claimed that the picture featured in…

Fact-check: Did Deepika Padukone sport ‘I Stand With Indian Farmers’ t-shirt?

Kinjal6th October 2020

On September 26, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) interrogated actress Deepika Padukone over her alleged involvement in the drug probe linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. In the backdrop of…

Hathras case: Morphed Aaj Tak graphic portrays Yogi Adityanath supporting Thakur community

Priyanka Jha6th October 2020

An alleged screenshot from a broadcast by news channel Aaj Tak has been making the rounds on social media the last few days. The Hindi headline in the viral image…

Unrelated video shared as Hathras victim being felicitated for academic success

Jignesh Patel6th October 20206th October 2020

A video of a young woman walking amongst a group of people bowing to her, touching her feet and offering flowers is doing the rounds on social media. It is…

Old video of Babul Supriyo’s convoy attacked shared as Health Minister Harsh Vardhan beaten

Kinjal5th October 20207th October 2020

A video of a mob beating up a man adorning white clothes is being circulated widely on social media platforms. Several users have claimed that the person being thrashed is…

Video of AAP MLA Ajay Dutt’s skirmish with Delhi police viral as Rahul Gandhi

Archit5th October 20206th October 2020

A 30-second video that shows policemen aggressively escorting a man is viral with Malayalam text that reads, “His father was the Prime Minister, father’s mother was the Prime Minister, and…

Viral: Morphed image of Yogi Adityanath watching Hathras victim’s cremation ‘live’

Anuradha Prasad5th October 2020

A 19-year-old Dalit woman, who was allegedly gang-raped by four upper-caste men in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, was cremated in the wee hours of September 30. Family members were locked inside…

Old video from Brazil that shows stacks of fake currency notes viral with false claim

Archit5th October 2020

A two-minute clip that seemingly portrays cash stacked up on a barricaded road is viral. The text associated with the video claims, “This is not a Building, these are the…

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Bloodstains on Pashmina: Kashmiri shawl sellers heckled, assaulted across states over faith, identity

Another Valentine’s Day, another free run for Right-wing outfits intimidating couples