As the situation still develops in Afghanistan, misleading news on a high as everyone seems to want to be a part of this moment in history and add to the conversation. A video posted by Major Surendra Poonia went viral where he claimed that Taliban forces have entered the Presidential Palace of Afghanistan in Kabul […]
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On July 31, 2021 Madhya Pradesh’s Minister for Medical Education when asked about the inflation in the country said the following: Sarang blames Nehru and his entire family for inflation happening today and claims that inflation has been on the rise since Nehru delivered a speech on the Red Fort on 15th August,1947. Fact Check: […]
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Vivek Agnihotri is a famed film director who maintains a very active presence on social media. He has been known to post about controversial issues. Agnihotri has 5.8 lakh followers on twitter. On August 14, 2021, Agnihotri posted a graphic of Capt. Amarinder Singh, the chief minister of Punjab saying that he believes that the […]
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On May 28, 2015, Shashi Tharoor the Indian Politician and Author, gave a speech at Oxford Union. In this speech he criticizes the British Colonial Rule for damaging the Indian economy. Tharoor claimed that India’s share of the global economy declined from 23% to 4 % under the British. This claim is supported by the […]
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Megh Updates is a twitter news dispensation account run by another twitter user who goes by @TheMeghdoot. Megh Update posts real time ‘headlines’ on the page for the purpose of giving bite-sized news updates to its followers. Megh Updates has over 1.5 Lakh followers on twitter having only joined in March 2019. The account is […]
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Deepak Chaurasia is the Consulting Editor of News Nation TV. He has over 1 million followers on twitter and has a major base on the website. On August 12, 2021, Chaurasia posted the following image: The post claimed that someone named Mr. Yadav has opened a sweet shop in Kashmir calling it the #Pictureoftheyear. Fact-Check: […]
Continue ReadingThe Hindu IT Cell is a page on twitter that claims to work towards the protection of dharma and catering to concerned Hindus through legal means. The account currently has 95.5k followers and is followed by verified handles such as Amit Kumar and Vijay Patel. The account’s founders Vikas Pandey and Ramesh Solanki are also […]
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Nisar Siddiqui As the digital landscape becomes more complex and expansive day by day, it is also becoming more difficult to navigate and easier to manipulate, as is evident from many high-profile reports about the influence of “fake news” and Twitter bots. The ability to navigate this landscape effectively without succumbing to the pitfalls of […]
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Last couple of months have been a testament to just how much hate and humiliation people can be capable of. Justice for women in India is already not a well-executed reality but the situation is even worse for Muslim women and other female minorities. Two examples of just how much disrespect they have to endure […]
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The popularity of political discourse on twitter knows no bounds anymore. Accounts are getting extremely creative in the way that they present and post news so that it becomes impossible for a common man to tell what is real and what is not. Many popular so-called ‘news media’ accounts have resorted to merely bashing the […]
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