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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…

Sports drink commercial shared as cameraman beating athletes in race

Arjun Sidharth5th October 20195th October 2019

A video clip in which a cameraman tracking a race ends up ‘winning’ it has been shared by several social media users. Who wins the race? pic.twitter.com/S3uASKyHlq — Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)…

Did BJP MP Vijay Goel say people from UP-Bihar should be banned from Delhi? Old, misleading report

Jignesh Patel & Pooja Chaudhuri5th October 20199th October 2019

A video of a news report by India News on a statement given by BJP MP Vijay Goel is doing the rounds on social media. The statement was made with…

Unrelated photographs shared as images of submerged city of Dwarka

Arjun Sidharth5th October 20195th October 2019

A set of images has been posted on social media with the claim that these represent the submerged city of Dwarka on the western coast of India. “Shri Kishna’s Dwarka,…

Photos of malnourished man clicked during Kenya drought shared as former Sudan minister

Arjun Sidharth4th October 20194th October 2019

अमित शाह जी :> वक्त हमैशा ऐक जैसा नहीं रेहता है इसका नाम””अकीद इब्राहीम””है 1995 मैं सूडान का ग्रहमंत्री रेह चुका है इसको भी अपनी कुर्सी पर बहूत नाज़ था…

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