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Old video of railway station vandalised in Bangladesh shared as Kolkata

Pooja Chaudhuri28th December 201928th December 2019

A video of people vandalising a railway station has been shared on social media with the claim that the miscreants are Bangladeshi refugees and the incident took place in Kolkata….

Video of leopard attacking dog in Nashik, Maharashtra shared as Gujarat

Archit28th December 2019

A CCTV footage of a leopard attacking a dog is floating online with the claim that the incident took place in Amreli, Gujarat. On October 14, Jia News Mumbai’s YouTube…

Pak users share video of bull festival as cows unleashed on Indian policemen

Archit27th December 2019

On December 25, a viral video which shows cows chasing Indian policemen was tweeted by Pakistani political commentator Zaid Hamid. He wrote, “Innovative counter attack… When Indian police raided a…

Freight train traversing the famous ‘Tehachapi Loop’ in US viral as China-Germany train route

Arjun Sidharth27th December 2019

“This train from China to Germany travels through kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland. Distance travelled 10214 kms. Started on the 13th of June last year. Goods transporting train. Plying from…

Meme shared as pro-Modi cartoon on CAA and NRC published by European newspaper

Arjun Sidharth26th December 201926th December 2019

An image has been circulated widely with the claim that it was published in a newspaper in Europe. The cartoon shows the Marvel superhero Spiderman stopping a bus about to…

Alt News investigates the attack on a temple in Phulwari Sharif, Bihar during anti-CAA protests

Archit26th December 201927th December 2019

On December 14, Business Standard reported that Rashtriya Janata Dal (JRD) had called for a Bihar bandh on December 21 in protest against the recently passed Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The…

Video from 2011 viral with false claim that Muslim man wore Sikh turban during anti-CAA protest

Pooja Chaudhuri26th December 201910th February 2020

A video of policemen apprehending a man and removing his Sikh turban is circulating on social media in the context of anti-CAA protests. It is being claimed that the man…

Image from 2016 shared as Muslim man hurling stones in recent spate of CAA protests

Jignesh Patel25th December 201915th January 2020

A photograph of several men pelting stones has been shared on social media in the view of nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of…

Fake account impersonates Nita Ambani, tweets in support of PM Modi and Amit Shah

Arjun Sidharth25th December 201925th December 2019

In the wake of nationwide protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the NRC, screenshots of what are claimed to be tweets by Nita Ambani have been shared widely…

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