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How BJP MP Tejasvi Surya communalised BBMP bed scam with misinformation

Archit7th May 20218th May 2021

On May 4, BJP MP from South Bangalore constituency Tejasvi Surya entered the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) South zone COVID war room during work hours (around 3 pm) and…

Social media users cherry-pick names of Muslim accused in Gujarat fake Remdesivir racket

Pooja Chaudhuri3rd May 2021

The rapidly growing COVID-19 cases in India has left family members of coronavirus positive patients fending for Remedsivir, a patented anti-viral drug approved by the USA’s FDA. Even as the…

Brutal murder of two sadhus in Bihar’s Madhubani falsely communalised online

Archit28th April 2021

A widespread claim on social media suggests that two sadhus were killed in Madhubani’s Dharohar Temple for opposing ‘love jihad’. Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) member Vijay Shankar Tiwari’s tweet with…

Video of large funeral procession at UP madrasa shared as Iftar gathering in Hyderabad

Pooja Chaudhuri21st April 202123rd April 2021

A video of a massive crowd of people from the Muslim community gathered in a madrasa has been shared with the claim that it shows an Iftar gathering hosted in…

No crowd in Haridwar for Kumbh Mela? Fact-checking misleading video

Kinjal & Aqib Pathan16th April 2021

Despite India facing a severe second wave of COVID-19, the central government did not ban religious gathering for Kumbh Mela in Haridwar. About 35 lakh pilgrims have gathered at the…

Old images of Kumbh Mela shared amidst 2021 gathering during COVID

Archit15th April 2021

Nearly 30 lakh people have gathered by the banks of the Ganga in Haridwar for the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world. As the…

This is NOT the video of man beaten in MP’s Neemuch, police deny caste/ communal angle

Abhishek Kumar15th April 202116th April 2021

[Warning: The video shows violence and may be distressing for some readers.] A gruesome video is being circulated on social media with the claim that a young Muslim labourer was…

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

Anuradha Prasad13th April 202116th April 2021

Videos showing violence against woman take little time to be circulated with ‘love jihad’ claims in India. Two videos have recently been shared with similar communal overtones. In the first,…

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

Archit9th April 2021

Around the first week of April, several social media users posted an image of a policeman interrogating a couple, while passers-by record the incident on phone cameras. The image has…

Still from 2014 Bhojpuri movie shared as violence against Hindu woman in West Bengal

Alt News Staff7th April 202115th April 2021

West Bengal elections have become a hotspot for communal misinformation as claims suggesting that the Mamata Banerjee government is unsympathetic towards the state’s Hindu population are widespread. In the latest…

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Video from Bangladesh of man popping child’s balloons falsely shared with communal angle

The dark underbelly of YouTube ‘news’ channels: Staged vox pop, planted debates, recurring faces & BJP links