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 featuring a highway has been viral on social media the past few months with the claim that it is an 880 km highway connecting Pakistan and China, built…
Mumbai is yet again in the news as heavy rainfall and poor drainage have left parts of the city paralysed. At least 35 citizens have reportedly died in rain-related incidents,…
A photograph of a man assaulting an elderly man by pulling his beard in the presence of a policeman is viral on social media. As per the claims, a BJP…
Contrary to expectations that the cycle of fake news may stem following the general election, misinformation of communal nature continues to plague the social media ecosystem. June 2019 saw several…
“हरिद्वार के मनसा देवी झूले में आज सुबह आग लग जाने से लोग जिन्दा जले बहुत दर्दनाक एक्सीडेंट जरूर नेहरू जी की गलती हैं। (People burning alive in an accidental…
A video was viral on Twitter in June this year claiming that it shows a lynching that took place in India. In the video, a young man is being brutally…
“पूरे भारत मे मज़हबी उन्मादियों का खौफनाक रूप सड़को पर. नंगी तलवारों के साथ लग रहे नारे- चड्ढा चड्ढी वालों को, गोली मारो सालों को. मौत का इशारा @RSSorg व…
A screengrab of leading news channel CNBC Awaaz is being shared on social media. It quotes Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman claiming during her maiden budget that BJP government has distributed…
“അതിർത്തി കാക്കുന്ന ഒരു പട്ടാളക്കാരന്റെ കാലുകൾ ….സല്യൂട്ട് മൈ ഇന്ത്യൻ soldiers (Translation: the legs of a soldier guarding the border… salute my Indian soldiers.)” The above message is being shared on social…