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Old video from Philippines shared with false claim of Muslim man spitting on bread

Priyanka Jha7th April 20208th April 2020

A video of a man opening sealed packets of bread from a loading truck while licking his fingers has gone viral on social media in the light of the coronavirus…

Old video falsely shared as mother-daughter duo caught selling drugs in Shaheen Bagh

Archit7th April 20207th April 2020

A three-minute video which appears to depict seizure of illegal drugs is being circulated on social media with the claim that it is a recent incident from Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh….

Old video of Texas teen spitting in jar viral again with misleading communal insinuation

Pooja Chaudhuri6th April 202014th June 2023

A video of a man spitting in a jar with the label ‘Sweet Tea’ and placing it back on a supermarket rack is making the rounds across social media platforms….

Video from Pakistan falsely viral as Muslims punished in India

Priyanka Jha6th April 20209th April 2022

A video is viral on social media which shows a group of Muslim men performing a punishment called “murga” in Hindi where a person is made to squat, hold their…

Old video of racist heckling falsely viral as Muslim man spits on passenger in New York metro

Archit4th April 20208th April 2020

A 40-second video that shows a man spitting on another at a metro station has been shared by several social users along with the text, “New York, an islamic jihadi…

Video of Muslim vendor’s unhygienic handling of fruits falsely linked with spreading coronavirus

Jignesh Patel & Mohammed Zubair4th April 20208th April 2020

A video of a vendor licking his finger while handling fruits on his cart has been massively shared on social media in the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic. While the…

Police action on temple priest flouting lockdown in MP falsely communalised

Pooja Chaudhuri3rd April 20205th April 2020

A photograph of a policeman pinning down a Hindu priest has been widely shared by several prominent social media users. National spokesperson of Vishva Hindu Parishad, Vijay Shankar Tiwari, claimed…

Old video falsely viral as Muslim man spitting on food at Indian restaurant in the backdrop of coronavirus pandemic

Archit2nd April 20208th April 2020

A 45-second video of an employee at a restaurant packing food has been shared with the claim that a Muslim man is spitting on the food before delivering it to…

Coronavirus: Video of an undertrial in Mumbai falsely viral as Nizamuddin markaz attendee spitting at cop

Pooja Chaudhuri2nd April 20208th April 2020

Delhi’s Nizamuddin has emerged as a coronavirus hotbed after numerous people who attended a Tablighi Jamaat meet in mid-March tested positive for the viral infection. Since the news broke out,…

Video of Sufi ritual falsely viral as mass sneezing in Nizamuddin mosque to spread coronavirus infection

Pooja Chaudhuri & Pratik Sinha1st April 20202nd April 2020

A video is massively viral on social media with the claim that people mass sneezed in Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin mosque to spread coronavirus infection. Below is a Facebook post by…

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