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The dark underbelly of YouTube ‘news’ channels: Staged vox pop, planted debates, recurring faces & BJP links

Oishani Bhattacharya & Pawan Kumar24th December 202524th December 2025

In July, after self-styled godman Premanand Maharaj made some sexist remarks on women who are involved with multiple men, a video of two women’s reaction to the controversy grabbed much attention…

Dipu Chandra Das’s ‘last video’? Old, unrelated clip from Dhaka falsely viral in Mymensingh ‘lynching’ case

Oishani Bhattacharya23rd December 202523rd December 2025

A 40-second clip of a man being dragged by police is viral on social media with the claim that it shows the last moments of Bangladeshi youth Dipu Chandra Das,…

Muslim man cooking Biriyani with sewage water? It’s an AI-generated video

Pawan Kumar23rd December 2025

A video purportedly showing a Muslim man cooking with sewer water is circulating widely on social media. Users claim that the Muslim man made biryani using water from a roadside…

Kerala ‘lynching’: Victim was asked if he was Bangladeshi; brutality shocks autopsy surgeon

Shinjinee Majumder22nd December 2025

Five persons were arrested for allegedly lynching a Dalit man from Chhattisgarh on the suspicion of theft in Kerala’s Palakkad district on December 17. The victim, Ramnarayan Baghel, 31, was…

AQI chants at Delhi stadium when Rekha Gupta greeted Messi: TOI deletes video without citing reason

Abhishek Kumar22nd December 202522nd December 2025

As part of India tour, football legend Lionel Messi visited Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium on December 15. When Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta came onto the stage at the stadium…

Nitish’s hijab-pulling unmasks many; politicians, journos defending Bihar CM reveal misogyny, sexism

Ankita Mahalanobish22nd December 2025

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s act of pulling off a woman doctor’s hijab was reprehensible, raising serious concerns about the issues of dignity, respect, consent, personal boundaries, and limits of…

Row over ‘Ram in Haram’: AAP’s Sanjay Singh quoted Vajpayee; ‘insult’ claim by BJP baseless

Shinjinee Majumder20th December 202520th December 2025

A video of Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh is going viral in which he is heard saying, “Haraam mein bhi Ram hai” (“There is Ram even in haram”). Several…

Gurugram: BJP youth leader arrested for sharing fake story about Hindu girl’s murder by Muslim lover

Pawan Kumar20th December 2025

BJP Yuva Morcha member Shaurya Mishra recently shared a collage of four photos on his X handle, claiming that in a shocking incident in Gurugram, a 24-year-old college student named…

Bangladesh on the edge: Newspaper offices torched after Osman Hadi’s death; Hindu man lynched & burnt

Indradeep Bhattacharyya19th December 202522nd December 2025

The death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent face of the July 2024 uprising in Dhaka, at a Singapore hospital plunged Bangladesh into widespread violence yet again on December 18,…

Bondi Beach attack: Video of Australian PM announcing cancellation of Pak visas is a deepfake

Ankita Mahalanobish19th December 2025

A video depicting a press conference by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is viral in which he apparently announces the cancellation of all Pakistani visas following the terror attack at…

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Balasore horror: Cow vigilantes who ‘lynched’ Makandar Mohammad were known to him

4 hate speech events per day in 2025; 88% in BJP-ruled places: CSoH report confirms India’s slide into hate politics