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Alt News Impact: Facebook and YouTube ban accounts posting hate speech

Pooja Chaudhuri20th January 202220th January 2022

On December 23, 2021, Harish Ramkali, a member of the Bajrang Dal in Haryana, posted on Facebook that any school that dresses its students as Santa Claus without prior permission…

Video of brothers reuniting 74 years after India-Pak partition shared with false claim

Kalim Ahmed14th January 2022

A viral video of two brothers, one from India’s Punjab and the other from Pakistan’s Punjab, reuniting after being separated for 74 years due to the partition was recently widespread…

Video from 2012 falsely viral as Aryan Khan publicly urinating at a US airport

Priyanka Jha4th January 20224th January 2022

A video of a man in an inebriated state urinating in public at an airport has been circulating widely on social media. The video shows him being pushed to the…

Man hacked to death in Egypt, false claims allege non-Muslim killed by Muslim

Pooja Chaudhuri3rd January 2022

A gruesome video of a man hacking another man to death with a machete is circulating on social media. It has been claimed that the incident took place in an…

Fact-check: Did the richest man in America ‘John Ford’ convert to Islam?

Archit30th December 202130th December 2021

Since the last week of November, several social media accounts have been posting two images of a caucasian man. In one of the images, he appears to be crying. The…

Another scripted video viral as Muslim youth trapping Hindu girl in ‘love jihad’

Kinjal23rd December 2021

A video has been shared with the claim that a Muslim youth attempted to “trap” a Hindu girl in “love jihad”. The video shows two men filming the youth and…

BJP leader gives false communal spin to domestic violence case in Pak, media follows suit

Pooja Chaudhuri23rd December 2021

A video of a woman being dragged by a group of men who can be heard saying, “Put her in the car,” was shared by BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa…

Azan heard from the sky in Germany? Old video, fictional claim

Kinjal20th December 2021

A video has been shared on social media with the claim that azan, the Islamic call to prayer, played seemingly out of the sky in Berlin, Germany and surprised onlookers who…

Did Muslims accept that spitting in food was a must for halal? False claim viral again

Archit18th December 202131st January 2023

Megh Updates, a Twitter user which has a history of sharing misinformation, recently claimed that to justify spitting in food, it was submitted in a court of law that adding…

Photo of Muslims offering namaz is from Bishwa Ijtema in Bangladesh

Archit17th December 2021

For the past three months, locals and members of right-wing groups have been protesting against Friday namaz in public spaces in Gurugram. The Times of India reported, “In 2018, after…