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 […]
Continue ReadingDigital Forensics, Research and Analytics Centre (D-FRAC) 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 […]
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On Saturday, September 18,2021 tensions rose within the Punjab wing of the Indian National Congress. Months before state elections, a tussle between CM Capt. Amarinder Singh and others within the party grew. Rumours started to flow out that Singh is going to resign soon and soon enough on the same day, Singh handed in his […]
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Nisar Ahmed 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 categorised into two — fake […]
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On August 29, 2021, a video from a news website called “The Newspaper” was posted on Facebook. The video and caption stated that a politician belonging from the Congress party was criticizing Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi along with the entire party on some of their actions. The caption stated that the Congress spokesperson named […]
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There is a relative lack of data on the intersection of misinformation and misogyny in Indian politics. In our previous pieces, we have tried to highlight a few ways in which misinformation and disinformation impacts women differently than men and how members of the LGBTQ community and cis-gender women from all backgrounds are more adversely […]
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