Politics

Train accidents: The desperate search for a sabotage theory ends in YouTuber Gulzar Sheikh

Indradeep Bhattacharyya3rd August 20243rd August 2024

At least 17 lives have been lost in train accidents in India in the last 42 days, with the latest mishap reported on the morning of Tuesday, July 30, near…

Wayanad landslide: Old photos of RSS workers falsely viral as ongoing rescue ops in Kerala

Shinjinee Majumder2nd August 20242nd August 2024

At least 316 people have been killed in massive landslides in the Wayanad district of Kerala even as relief and rescue operations continue in full swing. The toll is expected…

Photo shared in connection with assault on elderly man in Bijnor is not of accused Abhinav Singh

Priyanka Jha1st August 2024

A CCTV clip from Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, has surfaced recently, which depicts a man slapping an elderly person multiple times and misbehaving with an elderly woman who tries to intervene. …

Nitin Gadkari’s statements clubbed together to falsely suggest no toll tax needed within 60km radius of home

Abhishek Kumar1st August 2024

A video featuring Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari speaking in Parliament has gone viral on social media. While sharing the video users claim that Gadkari has announced…

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…