In the last few days since the violence at Lakhimpur, Kuldip Singh Dhaliwal, a spokesperson for BJP...
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Digital Forensics, Research and Analytics Centre (DFRAC) is a non-partisan and independent media organisation which focuses on fact-checking and identifying hate speech. With the popularisation of the internet came the challenge of information overload and often times, our feeds are overpopulated with conflicting, incendiary and false information which is increasingly becoming difficult to ignore and not believe in
Social media is flooded with news that Varun Gandhi, an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya...
The hashtag #मंदिर_विरोधी_केजरीवाल was trending on twitter on 5 October 2021. Upon analyzing the 100 Tweets, it was...
On October 3,2021, a video of an Air India aircraft started to viral on all social media...
On September 5,2021, many users on Facebook began posting a graphic of the new Punjab CM Charanjit...
On 4th October,2021, around 9:30 PM, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp collectively went down for billions of users...
Since about September 25,2021, an image of what looks like Jio branded wheat flour has been going...
On October 3,2021, news of a major accident in UP’s Lakhimpur area went viral. Union Minister Ajay...
On October 2,2021 users on Twitter started posting two videos of what looks like a crowd running...
On September 29, 2021, the Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube amended its community guidelines to fight misinformation...