Politics

Photo of Israeli swimmers calling for hostage release is digitally created and old; not from Paris Olympics

Prantik Ali31st July 202431st July 2024

A photograph showing swimmers creating the words ‘Bring them home now!’ in a pool with their bodies is viral on social media. It is claimed that swimmers from Israel sent…

Bengaluru: Cow-vigilante’s false dog-meat claim triggers flurry of communal misinformation

Shinjinee Majumder31st July 2024

Chaos ensued at the Bengaluru railway station on July 25 after a large shipment of meat reached there from Jaipur. In a video that has since gone viral on social…

Video from Bangladesh students’ protest viral with false communal claims

Oishani Bhattacharya31st July 2024

A video of two women in burqas riding a scooter and distributing water bottles to some men is viral on social media. In the video, the men could be seen…

Manipuri Muslim woman beaten up by UNLF for drug peddling: Video shared with communal spin

Prantik Ali30th July 2024

A 61-second-long clip has gone viral on social media with users claiming that it shows a Muslim woman being beaten to death in the state of Manipur by Hindutva activists…

Did Yogi Adityanath not greet PM Modi at CMs’ meet? False claim by Supriya Shrinate

Kinjal30th July 2024

The BJP on July 27 and 28 held a chief ministers’ meet in Delhi. A video from this event is being widely circulating on social media, featuring several BJP leaders…

Viral video of sexual act demonstrates failure of Instagram’s content moderation mechanism

Kalim Ahmed & Abhishek Kumar27th July 202430th July 2024

Trigger Warning: Descriptions of Sexual Activity An explicit video of two individuals indulging in penetrative sex has gone viral on Instagram and X.  The authors of this story came across…

UP court staffer Vikas Gupta spitting into glass of water: 2018 video shared with ‘thook jihad’ claims

Prantik Ali26th July 202426th July 2024

A video is viral on social media with the claim that a junior government office worker in Aligarh spat into a senior judicial officer’s glass of water. The video, which…

SC’s Kanwar Yatra order: Justice Bhatti’s Kerala restaurant remarks distorted by the Right Wing

Indradeep Bhattacharyya25th July 2024

In an interim order, a Division Bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and S V N Bhatti of the Supreme Court on Monday, July 22, prohibited the enforcement of the Uttar…

India Today NE falsely reports Sheikh Hasina airlifted from Dhaka, withdraws story later

Indradeep Bhattacharyya22nd July 2024

India Today NE, the India Today group vertical that covers the northeast, reported on Sunday, July 21, that Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had been airlifted from Dhaka to an…

Himanta’s claim that Muslim population of Assam was 14% in 1951 is false

Abhishek Kumar21st July 2024

With assembly elections in Jharkhand slated for later this year, the BJP has appointed Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma as the co-in-charge for the state. In this capacity, Sarma…