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PM Modi supporter poses as Muslim woman using Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter’s photo on Twitter

Pooja Chaudhuri10th October 2019

The Twitter account Nafeesa Ahmed (@Dasettan1) was created in February this year. The person behind the handle is a devout and vocal supporter of Prime Minister Modi. However, a bulk…

September 2019: Misinformation around Chandrayaan-2 and MVA; media misreports add to the clutter

Arjun Sidharth10th October 2019

September 2019 was characterized by ‘diversity’ of misinformation, from photoshopped images to videos which were either mischievously clipped or circulated out of context. Like always, prominent news developments became the…

Movie still shared as photograph of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination

Jignesh Patel9th October 20199th October 2019

A photograph of Mahatma Gandhi which supposedly captures the moment when he was killed by Nathuram Godse is floating on social media. A day after 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi,…

Movie clip shared as actual footage of Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago address

Jignesh Patel9th October 201931st January 2023

Social media users are sharing a video that, according to them, is the original footage of Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago address. On January 21, 2023, a user shared the clip and…

Fact-check: Did Darul Uloom Deoband slam TMC MP Nusrat Jahan for celebrating Durga Puja?

Pooja Chaudhuri9th October 2019

First-time parliamentarian, TMC’s Nusrat Jahan, recently celebrated Durga Puja with her husband Nikhil Jain in Kolkata. Soon after, news reports by mainstream media flashed headlines stating that a Darul Uloom…

Old video from Bihar falsely shared as woman assaulted by RSS workers

Arjun Sidharth8th October 2019

“BIHAR: A Christian woman was stripped naked, beaten & paraded through the streets by radical Hindus aka RSS. The group burned her house before they dragged her out onto the…

Old video from Guatemala of woman set ablaze by mob shared as India

Arjun Sidharth8th October 201910th October 2019

A horrific video of a young woman set ablaze by a mob has been posted on social media with the implication that the incident took place in India, and is…

No, this is not PM Modi’s mother Hiraben dancing

Pooja Chaudhuri7th October 20197th October 2019

A video of an old woman dancing has been shared on social media with the claim that she is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother Hiraben. “पीएम नरेंद्र मोदी की मां…

Murder-accused brutally beaten in Bihar; police deny communal angle

Jignesh Patel5th October 20192nd January 2020

A video of a man brutally beating another in the middle of the road is circulating on social media. The man can be seen thrashing the unconscious victim’s face and…