AI videos, fear, and communal polarization: Inside BJP’s hateful digital campaign in Bengal
The battle for West Bengal has, this election cycle, been defined less by governance and more by an unrelenting churn of communal politics. What was once one strand among many...
Women’s quota or delimitation? Media misrepresents facts, Modi misleads nation
A day after a Constitution amendment bill seeking to redistribute Lok Sabha seats on the basis of the 2011 Census was stalled in Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an...
A video massively viral on social media is being circulated with the claim that students of a madrasa in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh raised anti-India slogans. Several social media users have…
AIMIM chief and MP from Hyderabad, Asaduddin Owaisi recently claimed at a political rally that the India Gate in New Delhi has the names of over 95,000 freedom fighters inscribed…
Several social media users have alleged that “a top Muslim cleric of the world Aziz bin Abdullah has issued a fatwa saying that a man can eat his wife if…
On June 15, several media outlets reported that Sakshi Misra, the daughter of BJP MLA Rajesh Misra, and her husband Ajitesh Kumar were kidnapped outside the Allahabad High Court. This…
Pradip Joshi, BJP leader from Madhya Pradesh, was recently suspended from the party after his objectionable chat messages to a party worker were shared on social media. Now, sleazy photographs…
A photograph of a giant skeleton was shared on social media with the claim that the skeleton of Ghatotkach, the son of Bheem in Mahabharata, was excavated in Kurukshetra. The…
An image of an excerpt from a textbook, listing the “advantages of dowry”, is viral on social media with the claim that it’s a part of the syllabus under Gujarat…
Several social media users are sharing a video in which a mob is vandalizing a public bus and breaking its windows with bricks. Most of the people seen in the…