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Distasteful road safety awareness video leads to anti-Muslim misinformation on social media

Archit Mehta25th March 2021

A video widespread on social media shows a man stopping two Muslim men riding a motorcycle without helmets. This leads to a heated altercation and a mob brandishing swords and…

Congress members endorse misleading ad on Rajasthan budget for Muslim religious sites

Archit Mehta25th March 202126th March 2021

On March 12, an advertisement was published in leading Hindi daily Rajasthan Patrika which said, “For the first time in the history of Rajasthan budget, Rs 100 crore has been…

Mumbai lab technician’s arrest in fake COVID test reports case given false communal spin

Kinjal18th March 2021

Social media users have been sharing a picture of a man claiming that he is a lab technician from Mumbai named Abdul Khan. The claim suggests that he is informing…

Old video of boy urinating inside temple revived with false anti-Muslim spin

Archit Mehta & Aqib Pathan17th March 202117th March 2021

Against the backdrop of Shringi Yadav arrested from Ghaziabad for mercilessly beating a Muslim boy for drinking water from a temple, a video of a man urinating on a shivling…

Video of child beaten inside madrasa is from Bangladesh

Archit Mehta16th March 202116th March 2021

[Warning: Distressing visuals] Shringi Yadav was arrested from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh after a video of him mercilessly beating a Muslim boy for drinking water from a temple emerged on social…

Photos from Yemen viral as injuries of Muslim boy beaten for entering temple to drink water

Archit Mehta15th March 202115th March 2021

[Warning: Distressing visuals.] A man identified as Shringi Yadav was arrested from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh after a video of him mercilessly beating a Muslim boy for drinking water from a…

Photo of railway station in Ukraine viral as mosque built by Bangladesh’ cricketer Shakib Al Hasan

Kinjal13th March 202113th March 2021

A wedding picture of Bangladeshi cricketer Shakib Al Hasan has been shared with an image of a large building. It has been claimed that the building is a mosque built…

AIUDF’s Badruddin Ajmal didn’t say India will become Islamic nation, 2019 speech clipped

Archit Mehta10th March 202110th March 2021

A 36-second clip of All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) founder Badruddin Ajmal is widely shared on social media. In the video, Ajmal can be heard saying in Assamese, “For…

Daral Uloom didn’t issue fatwa to lace food served to Hindus with chemicals, fake tweet viral

Anuradha Prasad8th March 2021

Social media users have been sharing a screenshot of an alleged tweet that appeals to the Muslim community to sell poor quality food and beverages laced with chemicals to Hindus…

Mehtab wasn’t the kidnapper, Agra girl’s disappearance with friends communalised

Priyanka Jha8th March 20219th March 2021

On March 2, the Uttar Pradesh Police issued a press release stating that the woman abducted from Agra on February 23 was recovered safely from New Delhi’s Tilak Nagar. “The…

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Video of husband stabbing wife to death in Delhi shared with ‘love jihad’ spin

False conspiracy about ‘love jihad’ in Noida spun based on 2017 image from Lucknow