Recently, a post about a radio platform called “Radio Garden” started to get circulated on social media. According to these posts, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed a new platform on which one can spin the globe and listen to any radio station from anywhere in the world. The post was circulated by […]
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On September 15,2021, an image of a conference meeting started to get posted by multiple handles on Facebook and Twitter. The users claimed that this meeting was taking place between the ‘top five’ intelligence agencies of the world namely, RAW from India, Mossad from Israel, CIA from USA, MI6 from Great Britain and KGB from […]
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Sudarshan News and Jammu Kashmir Now used an old report with an unverified claim and ran the story The news story On September 8, 2021, Sudarshan News and Jammu Kashmir Now channels ran a television segment on an incident that took place in Pul-e-Khumri district, Afghanistan. The news anchor proclaimed that 51 people were killed […]
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In the last 24 hours, video of a Taliban raid is going viral on social media platforms such as Twitter. The video shows Talibani raiders in a compound somewhere where they have found numerous bottles of liquor. The users have claimed that this raid was conducted in the house of former Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin […]
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A recent contentious sermon given by a Bishop Pala in Kerala’s Kuruvilangad in which the pastor talked about how Christian girls are falling prey to “love and narcotic jihad” has made national news. These comments led to a group of nuns staging a walkout due to the repeated communal and sexist comments made by Bishop […]
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For the last 2-3 days the news of Taliban’s new Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar went viral particularly in India and Pakistan. According to a hoard of handles, Baradar was allegedly killed either by COVID-19 or in a bomb attack on Monday. The news was spread massively in Indian and Pakistani circles. An image […]
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On September 13,2021 , a screenshot of a CNN article on the Taliban began to get circulated on Twitter and Facebook. The screenshot of the article claims that the Taliban has banned sanitary napkins in Afghanistan as it does not comply with the Sharia law. The screenshot was circulated by various handles mentioned below including […]
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On September 13,2021 a fake account of actress Payal Rohtagi posted a video of what looks like a Ganesh Chaturthi ritual being disrupted by police officers. The idol of Ganesh can also be seen being picked up. The video is captioned as below: “This situation has happened in Kerala during Ganeshotsav for Hindus. Hindu cannot even […]
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With Ganesh Chaturthi festival still being celebrated all throughout the country, many pictures and videos are making rounds on social media. One such picture is of the South African cricketer AB de Villiers. In this image that being circulated on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, Villiers can be seen holding the idol of Lord Ganesh. Fact-Check: […]
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On September 10,2021, a twitter user by the name of Nikhil Aggarwal posted an image of a the gopuram at Murudeshwar along with Qutub Minar, side by side, comparing their heights. The caption of the image reads ,”If we mention the tall buildings on the basis of history, then only Qutub Minar has been praised, […]
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