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Flag row in Karanatka’s Mandya: How ANI misled its audience by using state BJP chief’s erroneous statement

Abhishek Kumar10th February 202411th February 2024

The village of Keragodu in the Mandya district of Karnataka was at the centre of a controversy recently over the hoisting of a saffron-coloured Hanuman flag on a 108-foot flagpole…

No, Chinese leader Xi Jinping did not thank Rahul Gandhi, fake Global Times tweet viral

Abhishek Kumar10th February 2024

Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra started from Manipur on January 14 and will conclude in Mumbai on March 20. In this context, a screenshot supposedly of a tweet by…

Video of BJP’s Lavingji Thakor cleaning temple premises shared with false claims

Abhishek Kumar10th February 202410th February 2024

In the run-up to the January 22 consecration ceremony at the Ram Mandir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had called for a cleanliness campaign at religious sites across the country. Following…

Squint Neon: A sordid saga of anti-Muslim hate & online harassment of interfaith couples on X

Shinjinee Majumder9th February 202413th February 2024

“It was the second time I had a panic attack in my life. It felt like I was losing something important. I had heard so many wrong things about me…

Darbhanga land dispute falsely reported as case of forced religious conversion, viral with communal spin

Abhishek Kumar9th February 20249th February 2024

An incident from Muria village in the Bhalpatti police station area of Bihar’s Darbhanga has been making headlines. Two locals, Rajdhan Devi and Vicky Kumar, have claimed that they hail…

Karnataka SSLC exam: Paper scheduled in 2nd half on Friday to avoid clash with pre-uni test; BJP sees ‘appeasement’

Oishani Bhattacharya6th February 2024

The Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB) released the timetable for preparatory exams for the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) on February 2. Several social media users have taken…

Alt News Investigation: Multiple handles run bogus fundraisers on X benefiting a certain ‘Sandeep Mandal’

Abhishek Kumar, Oishani Bhattacharya & Mohammed Zubair5th February 2024

On 9 November 2023, an Alt News journalist received a request from an X user to look into the authenticity of a donation drive by a user named Ritika Annie,…

Kharge did not ‘admit defeat’ by acceding 400 seats to BJP; clipped video shared by Union ministers

Shinjinee Majumder3rd February 2024

A video of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge saying, “You had so much support; initially, you had 330-334 seats, now it’s going beyond 400” in Rajya Sabha in viral on social…

Mira Road clashes: Police thrashing detainees to rail station on fire — Unrelated visuals falsely viral

Oishani Bhattacharya3rd February 2024

The consecration of the idol of Hindu deity Ram at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya took place on January 22 amid the performance of rituals and with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in…

Three of Bangladeshi Hindu family killed by relative: Crime falsely communalized by Indian X users

Shinjinee Majumder1st February 20241st February 2024

Trigger Warning: Murder, Photos of Dead Bodies Images of the corpses of three members of a Bangladeshi Hindu family are circulating on the internet with the claim that ‘Islamists’ murdered…

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Did Rahul Gandhi say ‘I don’t get any disease, I have direct connection with God’? No, viral video is clipped

Photos from Bangladeshi films shared to back cooked-up ‘Love Jihad’ story