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Media misreport: Lawyers Kapil Sibal, Indira Jaising, Dushyant Dave wrongly linked with alleged PFI support for CAA stir

Jignesh Patel & Pratik Sinha28th January 202031st January 2020

Since the last two days, reports have emerged that according to an Enforcement Directorate report, Popular Front of India (PFI) mobilised Rs 120 crores during protests against the Citizenship Amendment…

Video related to Chhattisgarh elections shared claiming BJP bribing voters in Delhi

Archit27th January 202028th January 2020

Since the past one week, a 20-second video has gone viral with the claim that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is paying Rs 700 in exchange for a vote. On January…

Journalist Arfa Khanum’s speech on CAA shared with distorted interpretation by BJP office-bearers

Alt News Desk27th January 20203rd February 2020

“The Islamists want CAA protests to be ‘inclusive’ only till the time you, the non Muslims, start accepting their religious identity, beliefs and supremacist slogans as gospel,” tweeted BJP IT cell…

Anti-CAA protesters at Lucknow confess taking bribes? No, clipped video viral

Archit27th January 20203rd February 2020

A 20-second video of a woman donning a hijab speaking to a reporter is widely circulating on social media. Accompanying claims suggest that she accepted that women protesting against the…

Tarek Fatah – A case study of unrelenting divisive misinformation

Pooja Chaudhuri27th January 202029th August 2020

A prominent name on social media, Tarek Fatah is an active Twitter user with over 6 lakh followers. But on numerous occasions, the Pakistani-Canadian writer has been found using the…

Video of VHP leader viral as Naseeruddin Shah’s brother supporting CAA

Nibedita Sen27th January 202027th January 2020

A video of an elderly man speaking in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is viral with the claim that he is Rizwan Ahmed, brother of actor Naseeruddin Shah….

Amit Shah asks people to boycott Aaj Tak before Delhi elections? Old video viral

Mohammed Zubair26th January 202026th January 2020

A video of Amit Shah addressing the media is viral with the claim that the Home Minister asked the people of Delhi to not watch Aaj Tak because it supports…

BJP MLA ‘Karni Singh’ toppled Ambedkar’s statue? Old video, false claim

Jignesh Patel25th January 202025th January 2020

A video of a statue toppled by a group of people with the help of a JCB truck is circulating on social media. The message shared along with the video…

Old, unrelated video viral as BJP leader Inayat Hussain assaulted for supporting CAA, NRC

Mohammed Zubair25th January 202025th January 2020

A video is viral with the claim that BJP leader and ex-chairman of the Haj committee Inayat Hussain was smeared with ink and beaten with slippers in Indore for extending…

Old video from MP viral as women CAA protesters fighting over distribution of money

Kinjal24th January 202024th January 2020

A non-violent sit-in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) by women at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh has been going on since December 15, 2019. On January 15, a month into…

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