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Crowd chanted Hanuman Chalisa at World Cup final? No, doctored video viral; false report by Zee, ABP, OpIndia

Abhishek Kumar21st November 2023

India on November 19 played Australia in the Final of the ICC men’s cricket World Cup 2023 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Following this, a video in…

BJP, Amit Malviya tweet clipped video of Cong poll rally to mock Mallikarjun Kharge’s Rahul-in-place-of-Rajiv slip

Shinjinee Majumder21st November 202321st November 2023

The official X account of the BJP (@BJP4India) recently shared an eight-second clip of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge saying, “राहुल गाँधी जैसे नेता अपने जान इस देश के एकता के…

Old photos viral as ‘Hamas tunnel system exposed’ amid ongoing war with Israel

Abhishek Kumar21st November 2023

Recently, social media users shared photos of some tunnels linking them to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. It is claimed that the images depict the Hamas tunnel system, with the Israel…

Image of boy dragging a child’s body not linked to ongoing Israel-Hamas war

Kinjal21st November 2023

Over the past month and a half, social media has been flooded with claims related to the Israel-Hamas conflict. Alt News has constantly been monitoring and fact-checking them. The latest…

Women leaving Palestine with Indian flag in hand to avoid getting shot? No, old video shared out of context

Abhishek Kumar20th November 2023

A video of a group of young Muslim women donning hijabs carrying the Tricolour in their hands has been doing the rounds on social media. It is claimed that men…

Staged video of street fight viral with communal spin; some falsely relate it to Israel-Hamas war

Shinjinee Majumder16th November 2023

A video showing three women tackling several men who were apparently trying to harass them is viral on social media with the claim that the incident occurred in Paris in…

2013 Egypt hospital siege video falsely viral as ‘shooting in al-Shifa hospital’

Oishani Bhattacharya16th November 2023

On November 15, Israeli forces raided the al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip as part of an “operation against Hamas in a specified area”. The Israeli military also claimed to…

Donkey painted in Israel colours set ablaze? Photos from 2011, 2014 falsely viral

Abira Das15th November 202316th November 2023

Trigger Warning: Graphic Image Amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, a collage of two pictures is viral on social media. The first image depicts some men dragging a donkey with the…

Did this Palestinian woman say she ‘preferred Jews’?; No, in the viral clip she recounts finding her son’s body

Shinjinee Majumder14th November 202315th November 2023

A video of a Palestinian woman allegedly saying that she ‘prefers the Jews’ in Arabic is viral on social media. In the 29-second clip, the English closed captioning suggests that…

Injured man comforting his mother: Yet another video from Gaza falsely given ‘Pallywood’ label

Oishani Bhattacharya14th November 202314th November 2023

A 13-second clip from Gaza is viral on social media where a seemingly injured man with a bandaged head and blood-soaked clothes can be seen sitting up and speaking to…

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Social media arrests: SC upholds Telangana HC directions; restrains arbitrary FIR, mechanical arrests

All charades dropped: Assam BJP’s AI video shows Himanta ‘shooting point-blank’ at Muslims