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Hotel CCTV footage from 2020 Turkey earthquake viral as visuals of recent disaster

Vansh Shah10th February 2023

Disturbing images and videos purportedly of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey have flooded social media ever since the disaster hit the countries on February 6, 2023. At the time…

Viral video of woman beaten up by men: No communal angle to the 2-yr-old incident

Abhishek Kumar3rd February 20233rd February 2023

A purported video of a Dalit woman being beaten up for bathing in a water body is making the rounds on social media. The footage shows a group of young…

Unrelated, old videos viral as audience reaction to Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Pathaan’

Vansh Shah2nd February 2023

Despite boycott calls from some sections including the Indian Right Wing, Shah Rukh Khan’s film ‘Pathaan’ has set the box office on fire. Against this backdrop, social media users have…

No, Cristiano Ronaldo did not say in interview that he loved Islam

Vansh Shah11th January 2023

Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo joining Al Nassar football club has made headlines worldwide. In this context, several social media users claimed that replying to a question in an interview, Ronaldo said…

Video of angry outburst by Bangladesh bodybuilder shared with false caste-bias claim

Kinjal9th January 2023

A video of a bodybuilder angrily throwing away the prize he won in a competition is circulating widely on social media. In the opening of the video, the contestant is…

2017 Yamuna Expressway car pile-up video goes viral again

Vansh Shah6th January 2023

Several North Indian states recorded their lowest temperature of the season in the first week of the year resulting in dense fog which affected air travel and railway movement. In…

Scripted video of aged man marrying 21-yr-old woman viral as real incident

Shinjinee Majumder27th December 2022

A 30-second clip of a 62-year-old man ‘marrying’ a 21-year-old woman is viral on social media. In the video, the man states that the couple would go to Malaysia for…

No, 22-yr-old man didn’t ‘marry’ 52-yr-old woman; news outlets fell for scripted video

Vipul Kumar15th December 2022

Multiple mainstream media outlets recently carried the news that a 21/22-year-old man had married a 52-year-old woman. The ‘reports’ did not have any detail about the newlyweds but had a…

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Muslim husband beat up Hindu wife? No, photos of Bangladeshi couple viral with Islamophobic ‘Abdul’ trope

Javed Akhtar, Banu Mushtaq and the contagion of religious sentiments getting hurt