Newspaper cuttings of an alleged statement of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President Mayawati just before the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections are going viral on social media. In which Mayawati was quoted as saying that ‘भाजपा से मिल सपा को हराएंगे।’. A user posted the newspaper cutting on Facebook and wrote a tweet which roughly […]
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India is a diverse country with many religions and faith and a mix of several conservative and modern cities and societies. But still the nation has had its fair share of riots to pogroms in different parts. In most cases, politics has been the main culprit in inciting violence and tensions between communities. And in […]
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As Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party is trying its best to increase its dominance in Punjab and is very active about the upcoming elections, a video on social media platform Twitter has got viral where it is seen Bhagwant Mann, the member of the parliament insulting the chief minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal. In this video […]
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As the UP elections get closer, the amount of fake news spreading online is also increasing. In this light, a video of an argument taking place between Akhilesh Yadav and Shivpal Yadav at a rally is going viral on Twitter and Facebook. In the video, it can be seen that Shivpal snatched the microphone from […]
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As we have written previously, fake news and misleading information is being peddled by everyone as the UP elections are coming closer. A promotional poster regarding the construction of a dam in Bundelkhand is being posted by several prominent BJP leaders. The posts claim that a dam is being constructed in Bundelkhand by Yogi Adityanath’s […]
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The hashtag #राहुल_गांधी_गद्दार_है is trending on Twitter with thousands of tweets. Within this hashtag Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is being criticised and slandered upon with a great ferocity. Apart from the hate, a lot of fake and old news is also being shared by many users. Amongst these posts, we found that a newspaper […]
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A video has got viral on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook where children are being administered an oath to not to vote for Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in coming polls. “What a big conspiracy is happening against the country that too in the schools. What poison is filling inside the children too? Make […]
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A deep analysis of #DismantlingGlobalHindutva Dismantling Global Hindutva was a mega 3 day conference that took place from September 10-12 with participants from all over the world. The conference was co-sponsored by 50 US Universities which included the likes of New York University, Stanford University, Harvard and Princeton. The organisers of the conference remained anonymous […]
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Around the world, and more specifically in India, disinformation is spreading and becoming a successful phenomenon of deception. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how fast and wide information can spread: so fast, that the phenomenon has been given the name, “infodemic”. This disinformation, in Indian context, is broadly categorized into two — fake news and […]
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On September 27,2021 the Vice-President of INC Delhi posted a video of the ongoing farmers’ protest. In the video, a reporter can be seen talking to protestors who have gathered once again to protest the 3 laws which they believe will be damning for them. Since these protests started, some media outlets have taken it […]
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