Elderly Muslim man married to a child? No, viral photo shows teacher and student from Turkey KG school
A photo of a young girl posing with an elderly man is doing the rounds on social media. It is claimed that the two are married. Social media have shared...
UP gangrape footage falsely viral; In 2019 incident, perpetrators were all Muslims, victim a minor Hindu
A video of a group of men assaulting a girl while she pleads with them has been doing the rounds on social media. It has been claimed that the incident...
A CCTV clip of a group of young men participating in a birthday celebration is viral on social media. The video shows the youth giving the birthday boy ‘birthday bumps’…
A video of police escorting two masked men off a bus is viral online. It has been claimed that police in Maharashtra’s Amravati captured two terrorists carrying bombs from a…
A message about the government purportedly introducing a new scheme called the ‘Pradhan Mantri Ramban Suraksha Yojana’ is viral. As per the claim, beneficiaries will receive a sum of Rs…
A large portion of the disinformation on Indian Twitter came from fake and imposter accounts created in the name of journalist Pushpendra Kulshrestha. Some of these accounts had millions of…
[CW: References to child abuse. The video has not been included in the fact-check due to its graphic nature.] A video of a person physically assaulting a minor girl has…
A video of a gushing stream of water is viral on social media with the claim that it is ‘Pitri River’ appears for a month every year in Southern India….
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) released the results for the 2020 Civil Services Examination on September 24. Shubham Kumar from Bihar’s Katihar district secured the first rank. He was…
[Disclaimer: The video that is the subject of the story exhibits violence and can be disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.] Last week, unrestrained police brutality was reported during an eviction…
After the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August, Panjshir Valley emerged as the last province that resisted the Islamist extremist organisation’s control. In the first week of September however, the…
A video of a woman sporting a cropped and ripped denim jacket is making the rounds on social media. Users are identifying her as Urfi Javed, granddaughter of Shabana Azmi…