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GoAir fires the wrong person based on hateful tweets from a dubious Twitter account

Pratik Sinha7th June 20208th June 2020

Screenshots of tweets from a Twitter account with the name Asif Khan and Twitter id @MdAsif35534489 went viral on June 4. The account, which has now either been deleted or…

False claim viral about arrest of Amzath Ali and Thamim Shaikh in Kerala elephant death case

Pooja Chaudhuri5th June 20205th June 2020

The horrific death of an elephant in Kerala’s Palakkad has turned into yet another issue to target the Indian Muslim population. After reports came pouring in that the animal died…

Verification: Speech targeting Muslim community by Kanpur medical college principal

Archit1st June 2020

Around June 1, a five-minute video of an interview of a woman recorded in the style of an exposé went viral. The woman appears to be an office-bearer and is…

Video from Surat shared with false claim that Muslim man was forced to lick Hindu’s spit

Archit30th May 202030th May 2020

Around May 30, several Twitter users posted a one-minute video in which a man can be seen slapping another in front of a car, making him do sit-ups and forcing…

Photo of family’s suicide in Rajasthan in 2017 viral as Hindus murdered in Pakistan

Pooja Chaudhuri29th May 202029th May 2020

Twitter user Aqib Mir who claims to be a “BJP worker” on his bio shared a photograph of a family of four hung from a pipe inside a tin shed….

Audio clip based on Facebook post from 2017 attributed to journalist Ravish Kumar

Jignesh Patel29th May 20204th January 2021

An audio clip of 4:46 minutes is doing the rounds on messaging applications like WhatsApp. A man can be heard talking about the lack of representation of the Muslim community…

Video from Bihar shared as UP incident where man refused to eat food cooked by Dalit

Ketan27th May 2020

A video of a person kicking the food kept on a table while another man yells at a woman standing in front of them is doing the rounds on social…

Pornographic image used to target JMI student Ladeeda Farzana

Pooja Chaudhuri25th May 20202nd November 2021

A Twitter handle @GahlotKanpur whose bio reads “active BJP worker” shared two photographs — an image of Muslim women talking to AIMIM chief Asaddudin Owaisi juxtaposed with a picture of…

Gopalganj case: OpIndia blames victim’s father, accuses him of lying to give itself a clean chit

Priyanka Jha25th May 202025th May 2020

In an article published on May 9, OpIndia claimed that a 15-year-old boy Rohit was sacrificed in a mosque in Bihar’s Gopalganj. Our investigation found that the story was false….

Pakistani man’s beard, eyebrows shaved for molesting minors, video viral in India

Pooja Chaudhuri23rd May 202023rd May 2020

A video of a crowd surrounding a man, shaving off his facial hair including his eyebrows, is circulating on social media. It is being claimed that locals caught the man,…

Religion

Red carpet for Laura Loomer, deportation for critics: A tale of two Indias

Varanasi Iftar-on-boat arrests: Complainant’s shifting claims mirror gaps in case against 14 Muslim men