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Most Facebook fact-checking partners in India fail to fact-check BJP-led misinformation

Pooja Chaudhuri25th October 202026th October 2020

Social media giant Facebook has repeatedly come under the scanner after multiple reports of the company evading responsibility for hateful content and misinformation thriving on the platform. A Buzzfeed report…

Old video of protest by Muslim community in Paris revived after French teacher’s killing

Pooja Chaudhuri24th October 2020

French teacher Samuel Paty was recently beheaded in Paris by 18-year-old teenager Abdoulakh Anzorov. Paty had shown caricatures of Prophet Mohammed during a class on freedom of expression, in relation…

Satirical post claiming Muslims secured top 5 ranks in NEET believed to be true

Archit23rd October 202024th October 2020

Last month, Sudarshan News broadcasted a bulletin replete with misinformation to falsely propagate that Muslim candidates are favoured in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examinations. Alt News published a…

Old videos of sexual abuse in Pakistan shared to target madrasas in India

Priyanka Jha23rd October 20208th October 2021

Two videos have recently gone viral on social media. In the first, a man is seen physically abusing a girl. A user named Uma Shankar Rajput shared the clip, writing,…

No, Congress MLA Aslam Shaikh’s men did not disrupt Durga Puja in Mumbai in this video

Kinjal21st October 2020

A 32-second video is viral with the claim that ‘Jihadis’ went inside a Durga Puja pandal in Mumbai and interrupted the festivities. In the video, a man wearing a blue…

Video of Mike Tyson offering Islamic prayers in his California-based store viral with false claim

Archit21st October 202021st October 2020

A video of former American professional boxer Mike Tyson performing Islamic prayers is being shared on Facebook and Twitter. The text associated with the video reads, “A coffee shop owner…

Video from Bangladesh wrongly assumed as female students sexually harassed in madrasa in India

Pooja Chaudhuri19th October 2020

A video of a teacher sexually violating female students is being shared on Indian social media with the claim suggesting that the incident took place inside a madrasa. Twitter user…

Video of woman claiming she was tricked into marriage viral with false ‘Hindu-Muslim’ spin

Priyanka Jha19th October 202019th October 2020

A video of a woman creating ruckus in an Amul parlour has been shared by several social media users. The woman can be heard saying that her husband tricked her…

No, Delhi’s Jama Masjid is not going to issue fatwa against Tanishq

Archit19th October 202019th October 2020

Several Twitter and Facebook users have claimed that Ahmed Bukhari, Shahi Imam at New Delhi’s Jama Masjid, will issue a fatwa against Tanishq for “destroying Islamic culture” because there is…

Fact-check: Is this the 2100 kg bell to be installed at Ram Temple in Ayodhya?

Archit16th October 202017th October 2020

On August 5, the inaugural ceremony of the Ram temple took place in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. Since then, two videos have gone viral on social media that show a bell….

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