On October 16,2021, many users on Twitter began sharing an image of Akhilesh Yadav distributing food on what looks like an occasion. In the image, Yadav can be seen giving food to a girl while others eat on the floor. Users began to claim that Yadav was wearing shoes during a Navratri ritual popularly known […]
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On October 12,2021, activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan shared an article linking a video which attempts to explain that a new virus from China will be used to enforce universal vaccines by Antoni Fauci and others. The video is taken from a far right media channel called One America News. The video claims to have unearthed […]
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Amidst the rising violence in Bangladesh, many videos are being shared online that have been linked to the violence. One such video is being vigorously shared online linked to violence in Rangpur. The video was first shared by the verified account of Bangladesh Hindu Unity Council claiming that Hindu temples and houses were being burnt […]
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As in our previous report we mentioned how the social media giant Facebook ‘promotes global division and ethnic violence’ in India and lacking tools to identify and stop hate speech from its platform as told by the Facebook ex-employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen. In this report, we are digging deeper into the subject, mentioning few […]
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On October 14,2021, users began posting a claim that the famous Akbar Road in New Delhi is being renamed to Samrat Vikramaditya Marg. The viral post was shared simply as a claim and also as a graphic by many on both Facebook and Twitter. Fact-Check: However, this claim is false. Representatives from Boom Live contacted […]
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“World-famous Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan dies in accident” reads an article of Myanmar News in Burmese language on 7th Oct 2021. Recently, some images have been circulated across some websites and social media platforms claiming that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan died in a plane crash. This claim was circulated across the internet after […]
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On October 13,2021, a hashtag named #RSS_देश_की_शान begun trending on Twitter. Within this hashtag, users who support RSS came forward and voiced their support for the Hindu nationalist organisation. Within this hashtag users particularly used an image of a compound stating that RSS workers built India’s second largest COVID-19 care facility with 6000 beds and […]
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At the Security Analyst Summit that took place on September 30,2021, during which the security company Kaspersky Lab released a report on a new cyber espionage group called GhostEmperor who have been using new techniques to launch cyberattacks on servers. The main target of GhostEmperor is government and telecommunications services in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia even […]
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Last week, during a routine patrol of Indian Army close of Line of Actual Control near Yangtse in Tawang Sector, around 200 troops of China’s People’s Liberation Army entered into Indian territory leading to a face-off with the Indian Army, which was eventually resolved by the commanders at the local level. The news went viral […]
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On October 6,2021, a video alleging that the new Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi converted to Christianity through baptism is going viral on Facebook and Twitter. In the video, a man in a turban can be seen getting baptised by a priest followed by a dip in the water. This video has been posted by […]
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