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Viral audio falsely claims 59 positive coronavirus cases in Nagpur

Archit27th March 202027th March 2020

A five-minute audio clip of a phone conversation between two men is circulating on WhatsApp. In the audio, one man shares various claims related to coronavirus in Nagpur while the…

Old, unrelated images shared as mass deaths due to coronavirus

Archit24th March 202024th March 2020

With the number of positive cases of the novel coronavirus in India exceeding 500 and hundreds of districts in the country in complete lockdown, there is a growing sense of…

Coronavirus: Video from Indonesia shared as wet food market in China’s Wuhan

Jignesh Patel22nd March 202022nd March 2020

In the backdrop of the coronavirus outbreak in India, one Daya Ram Meena tweeted a 44-second video clip showing a dead python kept out in the open in unhygienic conditions….

Traffic signal in Hyderabad or Mumbai ‘crosses road’ in heavy rains? No, video from China viral

Pooja Chaudhuri5th September 201915th October 2020

A video which shows a traffic signal being washed up in a heavy downpour is circulating on social media as Hyderabad reels under torrential rains. First time in History the…

Old video from Egypt shared as DPS Rajbagh teacher thrashing children

Jignesh Patel20th July 201928th July 2022

A video of a man brutally thrashing children is circulating on WhatsApp with the claim that he is DPS Rajbagh teacher Shakil Ahmed Ansari. The accompanying message also calls for…

Chennai man severed head of sister’s rapist? No, gory video from 2018 viral

Arjun Sidharth20th June 201911th September 2020

“This guy Akku Yadav from chennai, India whose sister was raped and the next thing he did was chopped off the rapist’s head and brought it to the police station….

Child abuse video from Syria used to target RM VM School in Valsad, Gujarat

Pooja Chaudhuri20th May 20197th April 2021

A video of a child being brutally thrashed has been shared with the message, “None of your WhatsApp contacts and groups should be left behind. Send this video to everyone…

Images of injured Pashto actress Neelam Gul circulated as Indian army’s brutality on Kashmiri women

Jignesh Patel7th December 201818th March 2019

“Kashmiri women She is from Shopian South kashmir. Beaten during CASO by Indian occupation Army and SOG.” read a caption affixed with a set of images. A Twitter handle, @MrsIshaNaim tweeted…

Sea of devotees at Ayodhya gathering? Find out the truth of the viral images and videos

Priyanka Jha28th November 201819th March 2019

On November 25, a ‘dharm sabha’ was organised at Ayodhya by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad which saw a large gathering. That day itself, social media was buzzing with video and…

Clipped video of Barkha Dutt’s 2004 report on plight of Kashmiri Pandits viral as justifying their massacre

Jignesh Patel12th November 201822nd July 2020

A hashtag #ApologiseBarkha is trending on micro-blogging platform Twitter. Several users have shared a video of the journalist claiming that she justified the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. Barkha Dutt justifying…

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Bajrang Dal activist who ‘stopped’ Blinkit meat delivery says he was saving Sanatan Dharma

Alt News finds Punjab police’s X account shared & deleted contentious post alluding to George Floyd’s killing; police deny