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Times Now, Republic, others published reports based on fake ‘confidential’ letter that Pakistan PM was hospitalised

Ankita Mahalanobish14th June 202521st June 2025

A “confidential” document dated April 27, 2025, bearing the emblem of the Pakistan prime minister’s office saying that the PM has been hospitalised in Rawalpindi, made it to several news…

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

Oishani Bhattacharya & Diti Pujara13th June 202521st June 2025

Trigger Warning: The story has details of deaths, including those of minors; reader’s discretion advised. “National media showed what they had to. Our endeavour is to give you our version…

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

Oishani Bhattacharya12th June 202512th June 2025

A 30-second-long video showing scenes from inside an aircraft is viral on social media and is being shared as footage showing last moments before the London-bound Air India flight, AI171,…

2022 video of Patna High Court judge reprimanding cop linked to Sharmishta Panoli case

Oishani Bhattacharya11th June 2025

Days after social media influencer Sharmishta Panoli was arrested over a controversial post, a clip of court proceedings where a judge schools a police officer about misusing power has gone…

‘Ya Allah. This was a fighter jet!!!!’: Pak X user’s tweet could be first ‘report’ on Operation Sindoor

Abhishek Kumar11th June 202511th June 2025

Gone are the times when people waited for a news bulletin on TV or the morning newspaper the next day to know about an important event. With mobile phones with…

2006 image from Odisha linked to recent anti-naxal operation in Chhattisgarh

Pawan Kumar10th June 2025

The central government, along with the administration in Chhattisgarh, has intensified its crackdown against Naxalism with its latest ‘Operation Kagar’. In the first four months of 2025, 197 Maoists have…

Man filming chat with Canadian cop in viral video is not Indian

Abhishek Kumar10th June 202510th June 2025

After reports emerged that an Indian blogger was detained in Turkey for performing obscene acts, a video went viral on social media in which a man is seen recording his…

Old video of police brutality from UP viral again. Action was taken against cops in 2017

Kinjal10th June 2025

A video depicting police brutality has surfaced on social media. In the video, two cops are seen torturing a man by placing a stick on his legs and standing on…

Give me screen time, I’ll give you fodder for communal debates: Shahabuddin Razvi’s give & take with news channels

Abhishek Kumar9th June 202510th June 2025

Of late, ‘Maulana’ Shahabuddin Razvi Bareilvi, who claims to be the president of the All India Muslim Jamaat, has emerged as a favourite of several mainstream media channels by dint…

AI clip of man’s narrow escape from lioness viral as real incident; Republic, News18 misreport, later tweak story

Ankita Mahalanobish9th June 2025

Late-night CCTV footage showing a lioness walking on the streets and sniffing a man sleeping on the road before walking away from him has shocked internet users. The video was…

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Dipu Chandra Das’s ‘last video’? Old, unrelated clip from Dhaka falsely viral in Mymensingh ‘lynching’ case

Muslim man cooking Biriyani with sewage water? It’s an AI-generated video