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    Oishani Bhattacharya

    Student in hijab heckled: Old clip from Indonesia viral with misleading claims

    21st September 2023
    A video, seemingly of a school/college classroom, is being widely shared on social media. The clip features a few male students who can be seen hitting and bullying a female...
    Student in hijab heckled: Old clip from Indonesia viral with misleading claims
    Abhishek Kumar

    Panipat sarpanch stopped youth from waving saffron flag at Janmashtami rally, video viral with communal spin

    16th September 2023
    A video of a procession of people on foot and on tractor trolleys is viral on social media. In the clip, a group of children are seen dancing to a...
    Panipat sarpanch stopped youth from waving saffron flag at Janmashtami rally, video viral with communal spin

    Man fighting with grandfather over the same woman after ‘Nikah Halala’? No, it’s a scripted video

    Shreyatama Datta12th July 2023

    A 2.19-second clip has gone viral on social media. It shows an aged man seated next to a woman in a village setting even as a younger man confronts him….

    Gurugram teen stabbed by ex-fiance Ramkumar: Video viral; Kannada daily, social media users add communal spin

    Oishani Bhattacharya11th July 202311th July 2023

    [The story only uses screenshots and not the viral video in view of the graphic nature of the content] A 35-second long video is being shared on social media with…

    Gurugram transperson’s suicide: Right Wing social media users add communal spin

    Oishani Bhattacharya10th July 2023

    Trigger Warning: Suicide A video has gone viral on social media claiming that in Dharampur of Gurugram, a transgender person was killed and subsequently hanged by a few ‘Bangladeshi Muslims’…

    Bengaluru Muslims calling for ‘boycott of Hindus’? 2019 video from Rajasthan viral with misleading claims

    Shinjinee Majumder30th June 2023

    A video of a man giving a speech to a crowd is currently viral on social media. Describing the video as recent, several users have claimed that the video was…

    ‘Bhagwa Love Trap’: An elaborate conspiracy theory in response to the ‘Love Jihad’ narrative

    Kalim Ahmed29th June 202329th June 2023

    A video surfaced on social media on April 7, 2023, featuring a man addressing a crowd outside a mosque in Farooq Nagar, Nagpur. Facing the gathering that emerges from the…

    Odisha tragedy: Absconding station master ‘Sharif’ found in madrasa? False claim based on unrelated video

    Shinjinee Majumder26th June 2023

    A video of a naked, handcuffed man being beaten up is viral on social media currently, with the claim that he is Mohammed Sharif, the station master and main accused…

    Hindu man stabs Muslim woman in MP; incident called ‘Love Jihad’ on social media

    Abhishek Kumar26th June 2023

    A video of a man being beaten up is making the rounds on social media. It has been claimed that this is another case of ‘Love Jihad’, from Seoni, Madhya…

    Shirdi Sai Trust did not donate Rs 35 Crore for Hajj; false claim viral

    Kinjal26th June 202326th June 2023

    A screenshot of a Google search page is being widely shared on social media, which shows that the Shirdi Sai Trust has donated Rs 35 crore for Hajj. The search…

    France knife-attack: Suspect a Syrian Christian; False ‘Jihad Watch’ report calling him a Muslim viral in India

    Oishani Bhattacharya26th June 2023

    A few weeks back, a video surfaced on social media, which showed a knife-wielding man stabbing people, including toddlers and an elderly man, in a playground in Annecy, France. The…

    ‘Mera Abdul Aisa Nahi Hai’: How the ‘Abdul’ trope has been mainstreamed to demonise Muslim Men

    Shinjinee Majumder & Jaisal E. K.22nd June 202323rd June 2023

    ‘Uska Abdul alag tha’ (Translation: Her Abdul was different), wrote verified Twitter user Arpita Shaiva earlier this month while tweeting an image of a man on a motorcycle apparently carrying…

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