Politics

Republic, Times, TV9 et al amplified morphed photo of Preity Zinta hugging Vaibhav Suryavanshi

Pawan Kumar2nd June 20252nd June 2025

Amid military tensions between India and Pakistan, the managers of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on May 9 announced the postponement of the 18th season of the IPL for a…

Op Sindoor: As Indian media made false, outrageous claims, PIB looked the other way

Shinjinee Majumder31st May 20251st June 2025

The second week of May was a busy time for fact-checkers at Union government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB) as it put out 68 fact-checks related to Operation Sindoor. While examining…

News outlets first publish, then delete reports based on fake video of Pak’s Ahmed Sharif ‘confirming’ loss of jets

Ankita Mahalanobish31st May 20253rd June 2025

In a viral video, Pakistan’s lieutenant general Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary, who is the director general (DG) of the inter-services public relations (ISPR) for the country’s armed forces, admitted that two…

AI-generated video of Donald Trump ‘roasting’ Indian Air Force goes viral

Ankita Mahalanobish30th May 2025

A YouTube short in which United States President Donald Trump is taking a swipe at Indian Air Force pilots over reports of Rafale jets being struck down by Pakistan in…

Not a pro-Pakistan rally in Kerala, these videos are of Indian Union Muslim League’s protests against Waqf Act

Ankita Mahalanobish29th May 2025

A video of men in green jerseys sloganeering in Malayalam is being dubbed as pro-Pakistan activism in Kerala by social media users. In the video, the men are waving green…

Wailing woman in viral clip is not the one in the Manohar Lal Dhakad sex video

Prantik Ali29th May 2025

Days after the video of Manohar Lal Dhakad’s middle-of-the-road sexual act went viral, another video of a wailing woman is being widely shared on social media. She narrates how she…

Allegations that same person posed as porter on one occasion and DU student on another with Rahul Gandhi baseless

Prantik Ali29th May 202529th May 2025

In a veiled attack on Congress, several social media users implied that party leader Rahul Gandhi was giving the false impression of interacting with different sets of people. Comparing his…

Shashi Tharoor’s scathing remarks on Trump: 2024 video falsely linked to Op Sindoor global outreach

Shinjinee Majumder28th May 2025

Soon after the Shashi Tharoor-led delegation of MPs had reached the United States on May 24 as part of India’s global outreach on Operation Sindoor, a 1.20-minute clip of Tharoor…

After Manohar Dhakad’s arrest for obscenity on highway, unrelated video of woman in hijab goes viral

Ankita Mahalanobish & Smit Bhatt28th May 202529th May 2025

After the arrest of Manohar Lal Dhakad, who was caught on camera indulging in sexual activities on the Delhi-Mumbai expressway, a clip of a woman in a hijab has gone…

Not Operation Bunyan Marsoos, image held by Pakistan PM, army chief Asim Munir shows old Chinese military drill

Oishani Bhattacharya27th May 2025

On May 24, Pakistan’s chief of army staff, Syed Asim Munir, hosted a dinner party “to honour the political leadership, steadfast commitment of the Armed Forces” during Operation Bunyan Marsoos,…