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Investigating Twitter handle ‘Know The Nation’ that shared Rahul Gandhi’s clipped video

Pooja Chaudhuri8th January 2019

On January 6, Twitter handle Know The Nation (@knowthenation) tweeted a video of Rahul Gandhi addressing the Lok Sabha on the Rafale Deal. In the 9-second clip, the Congress President…

Not an Indian army soldier; this is a still from a winter surfing video from Michigan, USA

Arjun Sidharth7th January 2019

A photograph has gone viral on social media, with the claim that it represents a soldier of the Indian army in the line of duty. हमारे जवान -5 माईनस डिर्गी मे…

Video from Bangladesh shared as “Islamic terrorism in West Bengal”

Pooja Chaudhuri7th January 20199th April 2020

On January 6, Twitter user Jagdish Sethi shared a video of clashes between a group of people, claiming that it depicted “Islamic terrorism in West Bengal”. He captioned the video…

Kapil Sibal slapped outside court premises? No, he was accidentally hit by a microphone

Arjun Sidharth5th January 2019

कल राम मंदिर के फैसले के बाद कपिल सिब्बल को कोर्ट के बाहर किसी ने लपड़ा दिया मतलब 1 थप्पड़ जड़ दिया. इस घटना की पुष्टि करती हुई ये विडियो…

Yogi Adityanath tweets “No riots during my tenture”: A fact-check

Jignesh Patel4th January 20195th January 2019

“मार्च में मेरे शासनकाल के दो वर्ष पूरे होंगे। मेरे अब तक के शासन में, कोई दंगा नहीं हुआ है। (In March, two years of my term will be completed….

Person thrashed by Chinese army for possessing Quran? No, video from Indonesia

Arjun Sidharth4th January 201915th March 2019

A video of a person being beaten up by another person in a military uniform was posted on Twitter with the claim that the person being thrashed is a Uighur…

Video of a martyr’s family mourning his death shared with false, malicious communal angle

Jignesh Patel3rd January 2019

“आ गई कांग्रेस सरकार हो गया बलात्कार शुरू ए विडीयो राजस्थान का हे एक हिन्दू लडकी को मारा ओर घर मे लेजाकर बलात्कार किया वहा कि पूलीस भी कूछ नही…

Woman in uniform in photo with Nirmala Sitharaman not her daughter; false claim viral again

Pooja Chaudhuri2nd January 201918th November 2022

The photograph of a woman in Army uniform standing next to finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is being shared on social media with the claim that she is the minister’s daughter…

Janam TV falsely links IS-Al Qaeda to annual functions in Kerala college

Jignesh Patel1st January 20192nd January 2019

“IS – Al Qaeda organizations take roots in Kerala; in the Capital, students demonstrate raising flags of these terror organizations- translated”, read the headline of a news report published by…

PM Modi makes false claim of Karnataka government waiving loans of only 800 farmers

Jignesh Patel29th December 201818th March 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting his parliamentary constituency, Varanasi on Saturday. Before his visit to Varanasi, PM made a stop at Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh to release a commemorative…

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