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Video from 2015 of traffic cops beaten by a crowd shared with communal narrative

Jignesh Patel13th January 202013th January 2020

A video of a group of men beating two police personnel is being shared in the backdrop of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 across the country. The…

No, Indira Gandhi did not force Sitaram Yechury to resign as JNUSU president during emergency

Nibedita Sen13th January 202013th January 2020

A picture tweeted by former Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai on January 10, 2020, took Twitter by storm. It garnered 4,500 retweets and 9,500 likes in one day. The text on…

Alt News probes ABVP’s link with JNU student exposed in India Today sting

Mohammed Zubair & Jignesh Patel11th January 202011th January 2020

On January 10, India Today broadcast a sting operation where first-year French degree program student at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Akshat Awasthi, confessed his involvement in the January 5 attack….

Video from 2018 shared as 88 BJP MPs request Rajnath Singh to roll-back CAA, NRC

Nibedita Sen11th January 202014th January 2020

A 33-second video is viral on social media. The caption claims that the video shows BJP MPs requesting defence minister Rajnath Singh to revoke the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and…

BJP MLA Himanta Biswa posts cropped photo of anti-CAA rally in Assam to portray poor turnout

Jignesh Patel11th January 2020

On January 10, 2020, Assam BJP minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted an image where a crowd gathered at an anti-CAA rally was compared with the one at a pro-CAA rally…

Video from 2008 viral as female students of JNU abusing during protests

Nitika Amin11th January 202011th January 2020

A video is viral on Twitter and Facebook with the claim, “Most vulgar language used by the girl students of JNU in the Campus protest. And, we pay Tax to subsidise their…

Delhi police probe or ABVP investigation? DCP releases images shared earlier by ABVP

Pratik Sinha & Pooja Chaudhuri11th January 202011th January 2020

“In my SIT (Special Investigation Team), there are three ACPs and seven officers, and we have been working day and night“, announced DCP (Crime) Joy Tirkey during a January 10…

Mirror image used to portray JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh faked her injuries

Pooja Chaudhuri10th January 2020

Two photographs of JNSU president Aishe Ghosh have been juxtaposed together to portray that she plastered different arms at different times. Thus suggesting that her injuries are fake. Ghosh was…

Old video viral as “communists” in Kerala attack pro-CAA rally by BJP-RSS

Jignesh Patel9th January 202010th January 2020

A video of a group of bikers attacked by a mob is circulating on social media. It is being shared with the claim that a BJP-RSS rally, in support of…

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Did Sonia, Rahul Gandhi ‘disrespect’ ex-PM Manmohan Singh in meetings with foreign leaders?

Prayagraj arson: Old, unrelated videos shared as ‘deserving treatment’ meted out to Chandrashekhar Azad supporters