Religion

Bulandshahr encounter: RW handles made misleading claim to add communal twist

Kalim Ahmed5th January 20235th January 2023

Trigger Warning: Death. Discretion advised.  A video of an individual lying inside a van-turned-ambulance in an unconscious state is going viral on social media. Sharing this video on Twitter, Prashant…

No snowfall in Mecca, viral video is digitally altered

Vansh Shah3rd January 20234th January 2023

The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) of the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia predicted heavy snowfall in the country’s northern regions and heavy rainfall in the Makkah-Medina region on January 1,…

Paris climate protest video shared as Muslims offering Namaz on the streets

Kalim Ahmed26th December 202225th May 2023

A video of a group of people sitting in the middle of the road with safety jackets on and being dragged away by some men is going viral on social…

No, Hindu boys did not dance in burqa in Mangalore college; false claim viral on social media

Priyanka Jha12th December 2022

Twitter user @CrimeReportInd1 claimed in a recent tweet that Hindu students at St. Joseph’s Engineering College in Mangalore mocked Muslims by dancing to Bollywood item song ‘Fevicol Se’ while wearing…

Decade-old photos of woman’s corpse falsely shared as ‘love jihad’ incident from Assam

Abhishek Kumar9th December 2022

[Warning: This article contains visuals that may be disturbing to readers.] A collage of photographs featuring a naked female corpse inside a freezer has been making the rounds on social…

Prank video viral with false claim of Muslim guy urinating in sweets at Hindu wedding

Shinjinee Majumder4th December 202219th July 2024

Several Right-wing influencers on X have shared a video claiming that it shows a Muslim man urinating into a tub of sweets. Among them is verified user Deepak Sharma (@SonOfBharat7),…

After social media outrage, ‘Rashid Khan’ justifying Shraddha murder turns out to be Vikas Kumar

Shinjinee Majumder25th November 202226th November 2022

In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin Poonawala, the video interview of a man claiming to be Rashid Khan from Bulandshahr went…

Kerala man assaulting child in viral clip is a Muslim, contrary claims on social media are false

Mahaprajna Nayak22nd November 2022

The CCTV footage of a man violently flinging a child on the ground has created an uproar on social media. News reports mentioned that the reason for the man’s behaviour…

Video of Russian woman assaulted by kin viral as plight of Hindu woman in love with Muslim man

Kalim Ahmed22nd November 202222nd November 2022

A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media. It is being shared with the claim that this is the condition of a Hindu…

A woman’s body discovered in a trolley bag in Yamuna Expressway is a case of honour killing

Shinjinee Majumder21st November 202221st November 2022

Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery.  Several users have shared images of the body of a young woman found on the Yamuna Expressway, with the claim that she…