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    Politics

    Shinjinee Majumder

    Cockroach Janata Party’s majority followers Pakistani? BJYM secretary Tajinder Bagga, others amplify misleading claim

    22nd May 202622nd May 2026
    With the Cockroach Janata Party’s Instagram page crossing the BJP’s 9 million followers mark, what began as a satirical campaign now appears to be snowballing into an online movement. BJP...
    Cockroach Janata Party’s majority followers Pakistani? BJYM secretary Tajinder Bagga, others amplify misleading claim
    Abhishek Kumar, Emily Fishbein & Jauman Naw

    Rare earths and rebel armies: How a conspiracy story with no evidence jumped from fringe sites to newsrooms

    22nd May 2026
    This is the second part of a three-part investigation. In Part One, we traced how a fabricated “exclusive investigation” alleging a secret India-Kachin Independence Army rare earths conspiracy first appeared...
    Rare earths and rebel armies: How a conspiracy story with no evidence jumped from fringe sites to newsrooms

    Incident of mob assault in Bihar shared with false, communal narrative

    Arjun Sidharth28th September 2019

    On September 27, Prashant Patel Umrao, who has on numerous occasions spread misinformation via his Twitter account, quote-tweeted a tweet by actor Ajaz Khan, accusing the latter of “spreading hatred”…

    Photo of charred corpses from Tanzania shared as Bokaro steel plant fire tragedy

    Arjun Sidharth27th September 2019

    A horrifying image showing a large number of charred bodies lying on the ground, has been shared on social media with the words, “बोकारो टाटा सटिल कंपनी मे लगी भिसण…

    Old video of BJP corporator thrashing a cop shared with misleading narrative

    Jignesh Patel27th September 201913th January 2021

    Twitter user Aakash Singh Chauhan (INC) @AakashS19706320 tweeted a video of a man thrashing a policeman. Chauhan claimed that the person in the clip is BJP MLA Anil Upadhyay. His…

    Mangaluru mall scuffle misreported by sections of media as assault on Muslim youth

    Arjun Sidharth27th September 2019

    On September 25, a scuffle took place between some youth at a mall in Mangaluru, Karnataka. A video of the incident, which showed a man being assaulted, was then shared…

    Video of scuffle at Mangaluru mall shared with false, communal narrative

    Arjun Sidharth27th September 2019

    “This happened in Mangalore When PEACEFUL students eve-teased girls in a Mall A Hindu interrupted & questioned those perverts But look how PEACEFULs abused & assaulted the Hindu Doesn’t this…

    Did Rahul Gandhi cut Manmohan Singh’s birthday cake? Old, unrelated video viral

    Pooja Chaudhuri26th September 201923rd September 2021

    A video of Rahul Gandhi cutting a cake with Manmohan Singh has been shared on social media with the claim that Gandhi did not let the former PM cut his…

    Two-year-old case of girls sexually exploited in UP Madrasa shared as recent using morphed clipping

    Pooja Chaudhuri26th September 201926th September 2019

    A Twitter handle @Nationallist_Om which is a parody account of journalist Pushpendra Kulshrestha tweeted an alleged newspaper clipping. Its headline claimed that a Maulvi was arrested in a case of…

    Old video of mother torturing her twin daughters in Saudi Arabia viral in India

    Jignesh Patel25th September 201925th September 2019

    A video of a child repeatedly slapped and tortured by a woman is circulating on the Indian social media ecosystem. Facebook user Rahul Michael posted the video with the message,…

    No, RBI will not permanently shut down nine banks; false message viral

    Arjun Sidharth25th September 201925th September 2019

    According to a message which is currently being shared on WhatsApp, nine banks in India are to be permanently shut for operations by the RBI. These banks are Corporation Bank,…

    Old report of BJP Gujarat govt’s demolition drive that erased 50 temples shared as recent

    Jignesh Patel25th September 2019

    A Twitter user who goes by the name Retweet Sarkar posted a video of a news report which talked about alleged demolition of 50 temples under the Modi regime. In…

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