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Viral video of ‘Pakistani aircraft shot down in Amritsar’ actually shows Hezbollah rockets targeting Israel

Shinjinee Majumder12th May 2025

Even as tensions eased slightly on May 12 after military strikes between India and Pakistan over the previous couple of days, unverified images and videos claiming to be related to…

In first MEA briefing on Op Sindoor, 2007 footage of Iraq explosion shown as visuals of 2019 Pulwama attack

Kinjal12th May 2025

India launched Operation Sindoor on the intervening night of May 6 and 7, targeting nine terror camps in Pakistan. The strikes come follow the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in…

Zee News, others showed 2016 image from Turkey as Pakistani pilot captured by India

Pawan Kumar12th May 2025

Amid the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, Zee News on May 9 showed an image of what it claimed was a Pakistani pilot captured by the Indian Army. (Archived…

Aaj Tak, NDTV, Times Now, News18 & others ran 4-yr-old video as aerial fight over Jaisalmer

Abhishek Kumar12th May 202512th May 2025

Amid escalating tensions between India And Pakistan, a video was aired by the Indian media on May 9 which showed an air defense system foiling aerial attacks in the night…

From tragedy to trolling: Himanshi Narwal, widow of naval officer killed in Pahalgam, faces social media trial

Oishani Bhattacharya12th May 2025

It took less than 10 days for social media users to do a full u-turn on Himanshi Narwal, the wife of late naval officer Lieutenant Vinay Narwal, who was killed…

Sikhs sloganeering against Indian army? No; viral video is unrelated to India-Pakistan conflict

Shinjinee Majumder12th May 2025

A video of a group of people chanting slogans, allegedly against the Indian army, is viral. In the video, the people, some of whom wear turbans and appear to be…

More false claims about ‘Karachi port destroyed’: Photo of Israeli airstrike on Rafah viral

Ankita Mahalanobish10th May 2025

Even as tensions escalate between India and Pakistan following military strikes between the two countries, unverified images and videos claiming to be related to the conflict have flooded social media….

‘People from your faith kill others. Don’t come to me again,’ Kolkata doctor told pregnant Muslim woman

Shinjinee Majumder10th May 2025

Days after a Kolkata-based lawyer alleged in a Facebook post that a Hindu doctor had refused to treat a pregnant Muslim woman from her family, multiple media outlets came up…

More unrelated clips go viral as ‘state of Karachi’ after Operation Sindoor

Shinjinee Majumder10th May 2025

Even as as tensions escalate between India and Pakistan following military strikes between the two countries, unverified images and videos claiming to be related to the conflict have flooded social…

Zee, TV9, Lokmat, Amar Ujala, others use naval drill image from 2023 to show INS Vikrant struck Karachi port

Oishani Bhattacharya10th May 2025

An image of a naval vessel with a flame in the background is being widely used by media outlets to suggest that the Indian Navy’s INS Vikrant struck the Karachi…

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Video available online since October 2024 falsely linked to current Israel-Iran conflict

Video of arms seized in Myanmar viral as Indian Army’s recovery of ammunition from militants in Manipur