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No, Modi and Rajnath have not recently entered BJP Margdarshak Mandal

Prantik Ali20th June 2024

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supposed induction into the Margdarshak Mandal, an advisory committee of the BJP, has led several users on social media to claim that it indicates that Modi…

Viral claims of Modi’s refusal to shake Joe Biden’s hands at G7 summit false

Prantik Ali17th June 2024

A video is viral on social media with the claim that PM Narendra Modi refused to shake hands with American President Joe Biden at the recently held G7 Summit in…

Police debunk false claims of Amethi woman’s death in queue to avail ‘Mahalakshmi’ benefits

Prantik Ali17th June 2024

Some social media users have claimed that a woman died after suffering a heatstroke in Amethi while she was waiting in a queue to avail benefits of the Congress’s Mahalakshmi…

Exclusive: How Meta allowed policy violations by proxy pages running pro-BJP ads

Abhishek Kumar17th June 202417th June 2024

As part of its initiative to bring transparency to political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram, Meta launched the Ad Library in 2018, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal….

BJP lost at least 20 constituencies where Modi openly targeted Muslims in campaign speeches

Oishani Bhattacharya13th June 202418th August 2025

The recently concluded seven-phase general elections held over two months saw the BJP carry out a campaign that was unprecedented in terms of the use of anti-Muslim narratives and misinformation. While…

JCB driver who damaged Hapur toll plaza is not a Muslim; false claim by the Right Wing

Shinjinee Majumder12th June 2024

Asked to pay toll tax at the Chhajarsi toll plaza in Pilkhuwa of Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur district, a bulldozer driver damaged at least two toll booths with his JCB around…

Sofia Firdous victory rally in Cuttack: Slogans in name of ‘Sofia Didi’, ‘Moquim Bhai’ peddled as ‘Pakistan Zindabad’

Oishani Bhattacharya12th June 2024

A 1-minute clip went viral on social media after Congress’s Sofia Firdous had created history by becoming Odisha’s first female Muslim MLA. Thirty-two-year-old Sofia won the Barabati-Cuttack assembly seat by…

Man in skullcap attacking Hindus of Ayodhya in viral video is not a Muslim; his name is Dhirendra Raghav

Prantik Ali11th June 202411th June 2024

A video has gone viral on social media, showing a man wearing a skullcap criticizing Hindus in Ayodhya for not voting for the BJP in the constituency of Faizabad in…

The claim that BJP did not win any seat in 100-km radius of Ayodhya is false

Abhishek Kumar10th June 202410th June 2024

The Faizabad constituency in Uttar Pradesh, which includes Ayodhya, has been in the headlines ever since the results of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 were declared. Samajwadi Party candidate Awadhesh…

No, BJP has not won thirty seats with less than five hundred votes; smallest margin 1587 in Jajpur

Abira Das10th June 202410th June 2024

After the announcement of the 2024 Lok Sabha election results, some Congress-linked social media accounts have claimed that BJP won 30 seats with a margin of less than 500 votes…

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TMC worker faking injury? TOI, Republic, ABP falsely share Bihar incident as Bengal

Congress, TMC leaders share old video as post-poll violence in Bengal