BJP Delhi, RW influencers circulate Pinterest images as ‘Kejriwal home interiors’
A video is viral on social media, purporting to show the interiors of Arvind Kejriwal’s luxurious residence in New Delhi’s Lodhi Estate. In the clip, the photos are contrasted with...
Trinamool MP Sayani Ghosh’s campaign speeches from Assam, Bengal viral with misleading claims
Ahead of the second and final phase of polling in West Bengal, a collage of two videos of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Sayani Ghosh has gone viral. In the first...
“It’s A Crying Shame That ‘The Butcher Of Bengal’ Has A Road Named After Him In Kolkata” is the title of a story on the most prominent right-wing portal Swarajya….
“OMG Vice President’s budget is six times that of the President.” or “Vice President spent seven times more than the Prime Minister on foreign travel“, you must have heard statements…
A huge storm of outrage erupted when former VP Hamid Ansari stated that there’s a sense of unease among Muslims in an interview. What followed was a virulent right-wing troll…
“My Twitter account got hacked” is the new “The dog ate my homework”. Social media accounts have a habit of getting hacked just before a controversial post. In some cases,…
“I’ll never be able to forget my house, the place I grew up. But I understand how important Sardar Sarovar Dam is for development of 3 states.” When you first…
A video of a couple who were stripped, thrashed and paraded around naked is being currently circulated as a video of caste violence in Gujarat. This same video is also…
#ModiPunishesPak. Here comes yet another TimesNow promoted hashtag. Interesting that instead of China, the channel continues its focus on Pakistan. So why is Modi “punishing” Pakistan? How is he doing…
Overworked or lazy? While glorifying achievements or talking about disasters, fake pictures which are not remotely representative of an event have been repeatedly used to portray events. From media outlets…
In their eagerness to project President Kovind as India’s first Dalit president, fake news sites and even sections of media did not spare late president, K.R. Narayanan. “Shocking! K.R. Narayanan…
Having written for international publications for nearly two decades — first as a journalist and then as a columnist — by now I’ve grown used to the usual charges flung by some of those…