Telangana Police goes after TeluguScribe, invokes UAPA to seek X data
Telangana police have sought information from X regarding an account called ‘TeluguScribe’ under Section 94 of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), which empowers a court or a police officer...
BJP shares clipped video to falsely claim TMC’s Byron Biswas conceded defeat
A couple of days after the first phase of polling in West Bengal, a video showing Trinamool Congress’s Sagardighi candidate, Byron Biswas, went viral, in which he appeared to be...
“6 hours after Gujarat loss, Rahul Gandhi was watching ‘Star Wars’ at a cinema hall in Delhi. #AreYouSeriousRahul” Times Now is known for its outrageous hashtags and blatant one-sided reporting…
On December 14 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially commissioned INS Kalvari. The first of the Scorpene class of submarines, INS Kalvari was inducted with much fanfare after extensive sea…
Social media is replete with misinformation, rumours and fake news that is often disseminated with the motive of causing division among communities. This exercise is being conducted in an organised…
At 2:36 pm on December 11, 2017, Times Now broke an ‘exclusive’ story of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram meeting Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Saleem Zaeef. According to the photograph…
On December 7, a horrific video emerged from Rajasthan. In the gruesome clip that shook the collective conscience of the nation, a middle aged man is seen hacked and burned…
It has been observed that mainstream media at times has succumbed to disseminating false information either unwittingly or otherwise. Recently in November, there was a report of television actress Sulagna…
On November 11, 2017, The twitter handle @ShankhNaad shared a poster that attributed the following quote to Mahatma Gandhi – “if a Muslim expressed his desire to rape a Hindu or…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in Dharampur, Gujarat, referred to a statement by Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar wherein he claimed that Aiyar had compared the Congress party…
A massive controversy erupted on social media when reports suggested that Congress vice President Rahul Gandhi on his visit to the Somnath temple in Gujarat registered as a non- Hindu…
The appeal by the Archbishop of Gandhinagar to voters in Gujarat to ‘save the country from nationalist forces‘ was the top story on primetime for some television channels. India Today…