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Old video of ex-defence minister’s wife performing puja on INS Vikrant shared as “baptism”

Jignesh Patel10th October 201914th October 2019

A video of Elizabeth Antony, the wife of former Defence Minister AK Antony, performing a ritual on ‘INS Vikrant’ is doing the rounds on social media. It is being claimed…

Video of unidentified drunk man shared as BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi

Jignesh Patel10th October 201910th October 2019

A video of a man dancing to the tunes of a Bollywood song supposedly in a drunken state is doing the rounds on social media. It is being claimed that…

Old video from Pakistan shared as Tamil girl found at Nagpur railway station

Arjun Sidharth10th October 201910th October 2019

A video clip wherein a person in uniform has held a young girl in his arms has been circulated on social media with the narrative that the child can only…

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…

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Clash in Murshidabad? Old video from Varanasi given communal spin, falsely linked to Bengal polls

Shashi Tharoor slammed Modi govt & praised Pak diplomacy? The video is AI-generated