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Video from Thane falsely viral as Muslim woman preventing flag hoisting on R-Day

Kalim Ahmed3rd February 20223rd February 2022

A 2:20-minute long video is being circulated on social media with the claim that a Muslim woman in Maharashtra prevented people from hoisting the Indian national flag and snatched the…

Video from 2020 Delhi riots shared as Muslim youth from Rajasthan thrashed in Kashmir

Kalim Ahmed22nd January 202222nd January 2022

[TW: Video contains strong language and violence.] A video of five injured men being forced to sing the national anthem and ‘Vande Mataram’ by security personnel has been shared on…

Mazar built over Shiv Mandir in Rajasthan? Sudarshan News shares communal misinfo

Kalim Ahmed22nd January 2022

A two-part video was shared by Sudarshan News on January 21. In the first part, a man representing the Dharohar Bachao Samiti claims that a Shiv Mandir has been shut…

Bajrang Dal members apprehend two adults traveling in a train, falsely claim ‘love jihad’

Archit20th January 2022

On January 16, a Hindi-language website called Humlog published an article that claimed Bajrang Dal apprehended Aatif, a Muslim man, who attempted to abduct a married Jain woman. This post…

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…

Religion

The long march to Hindu Rashtra: From meat ban to ‘Mandir Wahi Banega’ — Bageshwar Baba’s padyatra had it all

Muslim driver ‘assaulted’ in Agra over ‘Jai Sri Ram’: Arrested Rohit Thakur has a history of similar cases