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...
Rare earths and rebel armies: How a conspiracy story with no evidence jumped from fringe sites to newsrooms
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...
“लोग कहते है की पुलिस जान बुजकर गाड़ी रोकते है, अब इसको क्या कहेंगी जनता ? पुलिस जम्मू कश्मीर” (“People complain that police deliberately stop commuters, what will the public…
भारतीय मुद्रा प्रिंटिंग प्रेस में डेपुटी कन्टृॏल ऑफिसर , प्रतिदिन अपने जूतों में छुपाकर नोटों की गड्डियों को चुराकर ले जाता था। Cisf वालों ने पकड़ लिया और उसके घर…
A message circulating along with a video claims that a Maulvi molested a girl who was learning about the Quran from him. It blames Karnataka media for not covering the…
On September 23, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted an image of first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi amidst a huge crowd of people. Taking a…
A photograph of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee with union Home minister Amit Shah, is being shared on social media and WhatsApp. ঘোর পরিবর্তন দিদিও এখন জয় শ্রী রাম Posted…
“Breaking : लखनऊ : तीन राज्यो में बटेगा उत्तर प्रदेश,तीन राज्य में बनेगा- उत्तर प्रदेश, बुंदेलखंड व पूर्वांचल – सूत्र #Up” The above message has been shared on social media…
A video of a man performing a drill is being shared with a claim that a man of Indian-origin was conscripted in the US Army. “Nirav Shah. From Gujarati JAIN…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Houston for his mega-event ‘Howdy Modi’ on the night of September 21 to address a huge gathering at an event in Texas on September…
A video of a burqa-clad man, in possession of a knife, is floating on social media with the claim that an RSS man was apprehended by a crowd outside a…
A photograph of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been shared widely on social media, along with an elaborate message which reads, “When Nehru got a slap on the…