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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….

Video from Ecuador falsely linked to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder case

Archit15th October 2020

A 30-second video that shows two men shooting another man in public has been widely shared across social media platforms. Several Twitter and Facebook users have shared this video with…

Video of man’s rickshaw seized by municipality workers is from Bangladesh

Archit10th October 202012th October 2020

Irfan Khan, former district president of National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of Congress, posted a video of a man breaking down into tears as his cycle…

Photos of Italian artwork viral as ‘dangerous animal’ lurking farms at night

Kinjal25th September 202025th September 2020

A message warning farmers to say wary of a ‘dangerous animal’ is widely circulating on social media. “It is requested to all farmers to not step out on farms at…

Morphed photo viral to claim city bus in Colombia pays tribute Dr BR Ambedkar

Kinjal23rd September 2020

An image of a bus with a poster of Independent India’s first law minister Dr BR Ambedkar and his wife Savita Ambedkar is doing the rounds on social media. Facebook…

Old photos of Rakhi Sawant posing with Pakistani flag during film shooting viral

Kinjal22nd September 2020

A few images of actor and TV personality Rakhi Sawant posing with Pakistan’s national flag has caused quite a stir on social media. Recently, a Facebook user named Kuber Kawar…

Video of leopard roaming in a South African lodge shared as India

Jignesh Patel16th September 202017th September 2020

A video of a leopard roaming inside a lodge is circulating on social media with the claim that this happened in Taj, Ranthambore. In the video, the leopard can be…

Old image from Meerut shared as funeral procession of Pune-based doctor who died of COVID

Archit9th September 2020

Since the last week of August, several Facebook and Twitter users have been sharing an image of a funeral procession. As per their claim, Muslim youths organised a funeral procession…

No, IPS officers in this photograph are not siblings

Pooja Chaudhuri8th September 2020

Facebook user ‘দূর্গা খাতুন’ (Durga Khatoon) shared a photograph of three police officials claiming that they are siblings. The elaborate caption in Bengali says that girls are not a burden…

Fact-check: Saddam Hussein’s dead body did not decompose after 12 years of burial?

Kinjal4th September 2020

A 2:20-minute-long video reportedly showing former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has recently gone viral on social media. Users are claiming that his body was exhumed “12 years” after his burial…

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2013 image of Mexican MP protesting energy bill viral with misleading claims

Youth fed water from shoe for being with a woman, video falsely given casteism spin