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No, Mamata Banerjee did not exclusively promote Islam or Urdu at the United India rally

Jignesh Patel22nd January 2019

After the mahagatbandhan rally in Kolkata organized by the TMC, social media user Gaurav Pradhan tweeted a screenshot of a television news broadcast attributing a statement to West Bengal CM Mamata…

Fake news about Modi govt to print currency notes featuring former PM late Atal Bihari Vajpayee shared on social media

Pooja Chaudhuri21st January 2019

An article recently viral on social media suggests that the PM Modi-led government has taken a “historic step” of printing Indian currency notes featuring former prime minister late Atul Bihari…

#10YearsChallenge: BJP Karnataka tweets three sets of images, get all three wrong

Jignesh Patel19th January 201919th January 2019

On January 17, BJP Karnataka tweeted a collage of images drawing comparison between 2009 and 2019 to depict the positive changes in India brought about by the Modi-led government at…

BJP Bihar passes off a 2009 image as its development project in the last 5 years

Pooja Chaudhuri18th January 2019

The official Twitter handle of BJP Bihar shared purported before and after pictures of a stretch of road to depict infrastructural development achieved by the state government in the last…

Images of PM Modi taking a dip during 2004 Kumbh Mela shared as recent

Jignesh Patel18th January 201918th January 2019

A set of images featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking a holy dip in a river has gone viral on social media. It is claimed that the Prime Minister took…

BJP uses misleading images to showcase Western Peripheral Expressway

Pooja Chaudhuri18th January 2019

The official Twitter handle of the Bharatiya Janata Party tweeted two purported images of the Western Peripheral Expressway. The image on the left intended to depict a barren land, while…

Truth about Priyanka Chaturvedi’s photo with a child and a man who claims to be his ‘uncle’

Pooja Chaudhuri17th January 201917th January 2019

On January 13, Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi tweeted a photograph with a child saying that he walked up to her as a fan who has watched her debates. Within hours,…

Old, unrelated video of woman dancing shared as that of Congress worker Shilpi Singh

Jignesh Patel17th January 2019

“यह महिला कांग्रेस की बड़ी नेता शिल्पी सिंह हैं” (This woman is a tall Congress leader named Shilpi Singh. -translated), reads a caption prefixed to a video of a woman…

Young girl who asked Rahul Gandhi questions in Dubai calls out fake news of him being “stumped”

Pooja Chaudhuri17th January 201917th January 2019

On January 13, MyNation ran a story titled – “Rahul Gandhi dumbfounded in Dubai with little girl’s questions” – where the media outlet claimed that the Congress president was stumped by the…

No, Gulf News did not publish an article calling Rahul Gandhi “Pappu”

Jignesh Patel16th January 2019

“विदेश में जाकर अपने देश की इज्जत नीलाम करने वालों को इसी प्रकार इज्जत मिलती है जैसी अबू_धाबी के दैनिक अखबार @gulf_news ने RahulGandhi को पप्पू की फोटो छापकर दी…

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