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Fictitious politician ‘Anil Upadhyaya’ makes a comeback, now as BJP MLA criticising CAA/NRC

Nibedita Sen15th January 202015th January 2020

A video of a politician is being shared in with the claim that he is ‘BJP MLA Anil Upadhayay’ criticising the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens…

Tarek Fatah tweets movie clip as Pakistani mother denying polio vaccination to her children

Pooja Chaudhuri15th January 2020

Pakistani Canadian author Tarek Fatah tweeted a video with the claim that it shows a Pakistani mother denying polio workers from vaccinating her children. “Pakistani mother slams the door shut…

Did Rahul Kanwal say chanting ‘Vande Mataram’ is anti-national? Clipped video, misleading claim

Jignesh Patel14th January 2020

Last week, India Today broadcast a series of sting operations investigating the violence in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus that left 36 injured on January 5. The broadcast was…

ABVP JNU secretary denies masked woman in viral video associated with ABVP, visual evidence disagrees

Jignesh Patel & Mohammed Zubair13th January 202014th January 2020

On January 11, India Today’s Rahul Kanwal questioned Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) JNU secretary Manish Jangid about Komal Sharma after a masked photograph of her inside Jawaharlal Nehru University…

Morphed tweet of Shehla Rashid calling for boycott movie of movie on Kashmiri pandits viral

Archit13th January 2020

The trailer of Bollywood film ‘Shikara – The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits’ released on January 7, 2020. Journalist Aditya Raj Kaul shared the trailer and tweeted, “In tears. I…

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…

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From self-identification to state control: Trans voices raise alarm over new law

Four more Bengal constituencies, same pattern: Muslims disproportionately marked ‘Under Adjudication’ in SIR