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Claim that India has invented a ‘self-sustaining’ generator that runs for 700 years without power/ fuel is fabricated

Prantik Ali18th July 2025

On social media as well as messaging platform WhatsApp, many shared a video of a ‘self-sustaining’ magnetic power generator with claims that it can run for 700 years without any…

Viral video of Israeli soldier pleading Iran for mercy is AI-generated

Prantik Ali19th June 2025

With tensions escalating in the Iran-Israel conflict, which has claimed many civilian lives since it began on June 13, a video of an Israeli soldier in tears, begging for mercy,…

Fake news reports misusing photos of celebrities with phishing links inundate X

Abhishek Kumar10th March 202512th March 2025

Recently, fake ads misusing the identities of Indian celebrities have proliferated on social media. Well-known personalities such as singer Shreya Ghoshal and actress Rashmika Mandanna have been targeted in these…

BJP proxy page ‘Maha Bighadi’ runs divisive communal political ads ahead of Maharashtra election

Abhishek Kumar19th October 2024

Assembly elections are scheduled in Maharashtra for this year, with polling set to take place in a single phase on November 20, followed by vote counting on November 23. However,…

BJP way ahead of others in political ad spending on Meta; proxy pages spent more than official ones

Abhishek Kumar2nd April 20242nd April 2024

With the 2024 Lok Sabha elections barely a few weeks away, political campaigns have reached a fever pitch both on the ground and virtually. With India ranking very high on…

Exclusive: Meta allowed advertisement glorifying violence, ad shows live shooting

Abhishek Kumar22nd March 2024

[Trigger Warning: Violent and graphic content] As India gears up for the general elections 2024, the polling for which is to be held in seven phases from April 19 to…

‘NASA footage’, ‘Ashoka Stambh on lunar surface’: Fake visuals related to Chandrayaan 3 flood social media

Oishani Bhattacharya28th August 2023

On August 23, India made history as Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed near the south pole of the moon. Soon after this, as the mainstream and social media saw a deluge of…

No, BBC did not criticize Chandrayaan 3. Old clip viral; false report by Times Now, India TV, Zee News & other outlets

Indradeep Bhattacharyya25th August 202325th August 2023

In a historic first, India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s Vikram lander touched down near the moon’s little-explored south pole at 6.04 pm on August 23. Following the incident, a clip from a…

Hate, harassment, misinfo–BeerBiceps interview of J Sai Deepak has it all, but YouTube refuses to take it down

Abhishek Kumar8th August 2023

‘BeerBiceps’ is a YouTube channel with more than 58 lakh subscribers. The founder of this channel is Ranveer Allahabadia, who was in the headlines recently for his video interviews with…

Return of suspended accounts, policy muddle make Musk’s Twitter a ‘free-for-all hellscape’

Kalim Ahmed2nd May 20232nd May 2023

In April 2022, Twitter announced that it had accepted tech mogul Elon Musk’s offer to acquire the company at a whopping $44 billion, following which it would become a privately…

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Democracy withheld? Satirical X handles critical of govt blocked in India

Exclusive: ‘+6.30’ in Rahul Gandhi’s ‘vote theft’ PDF metadata does not prove it’s made in Myanmar