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Image of mosque in crowded locality in MP viral as Mumbai

Archit11th September 202011th September 2020

Several users on Twitter and Facebook shared an aerial image of a crowded locality. The most prominent structure in the image is a mosque. As per the viral claim, the…

Images from Malayalam series viral as RSS man beaten at Muslim wedding in Kerala

Archit10th September 202010th September 2020

Several Twitter and Facebook users have juxtaposed two images of a man, one of which shows him badly wounded. The text on the image reads, “This is mr. Chandraboss (RSS…

Old video of girl sexually assaulted in Andhra Pradesh viral as recent incident from Kerala

Priyanka Jha10th September 20206th April 2021

A disturbing video of a man sexually assaulting a girl and another recording the act has been circulating on social media with the claim that it is from Kerala. Those…

Video of woman hacked to death in Brazil revived with ‘love Jihad’ claim

Pooja Chaudhuri8th September 202012th September 2020

A video of a woman gagged, tied and hacked to death with an axe has been widely shared on social media with the claim that she was a victim of…

Right wing groups film minors, give false ‘love Jihad’ angle to birthday parties held in Bhopal

Archit7th September 20207th September 2020

Since September 3, several Twitter and Facebook users have posted multiple videos where members of right-wing fringe groups Sanskriti Bachao Manch and Bajrang Dal are moral policing children. They can…

Old video of vandalism by football fans in Switzerland revived as violence by Muslims in WB

Pooja Chaudhuri & Kalim Ahmed5th September 202026th March 2022

On 21st March, in a brutally violent incident in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, eight houses were attacked and set on fire, killing eight people, including women and children. This was…

Photos of two unrelated cases viral to manufacture a false ‘love Jihad’ story

Kinjal3rd September 2020

Twitter handle ‘@BJPBalochistan’ shared three pictures on August 27 along with the claim that a Hindu girl died in a ‘love Jihad’ incident. Two out of the three pictures are…

Old incident revived with false claim of Muslim men attacking cop in Chennai

Pooja Chaudhuri2nd September 2020

Twitter user ‘Raji Hindustani’ shared two photographs and claimed that Chennai police inspector Akilan was attacked by three Muslim youths in Chennai’s Tiruvallikeni. The user added that the youths were…

Images of charred idol of Hindu deity Kali in West Bengal viral with baseless communal angle

Archit2nd September 20202nd September 2020

On September 2, several Facebook and Twitter users shared an image of a charred idol of Hindu deity Kali. As per social media claims, the idol is from a temple…

Old video from Bangladesh shared as ‘Islam Zindabad’ slogans raised in West Bengal

Priyanka Jha29th August 202018th June 2021

A video is widely circulating on Facebook with the claim that a rally where pro-Islam chants were raised was taken out in West Bengal’s Kolkata. “This rally was taken out…

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‘Involved with a Muslim man?’ Radhika Yadav’s killing by father sparks flurry of misleading communal claims

Video of Hindu woman kneeling at Rath Yatra in Puri viral with false claims that she was offering namaz