Soon after PM Modi’s Kashmir visit was announced, Pakistan‘s propaganda accounts found a new task to flood the internet with misleading news. A claim was shared stating, “Complete shutdown Observed in Kashmir on PM Modi’s Visit Day”. Multiple Pakistani accounts were found to share this claim. Beside these accounts, Pakistan Media houses also published the […]
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Claim: In the first week of March 2024, a picture went viral on X (formerly Twitter), showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a hospital bed. Users claimed that Netanyahu had fallen sick after contracting a mutated form of the coronavirus Fact check: The Dfrac team conducted a Google reverse-image search and found that the […]
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Several users have taken to X (previously known as Twitter) to share “news” that Brazil has ended all diplomatic relations with Israel. View here @DrLoupis shared this message on her account which was reposted 7.1k times (at the time of writing the article) View here Other verified accounts too shared the message. Fact Check: The […]
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In May 2023, the state of Manipur was up in flames after communal clashes broke out between the Meitis and the Kukis. As of December 2023, over 175 people had died in the rioting and 70,000 people were displaced according to official reports. Collectively, the state’s ethno-cultural diversity, the politics of welfarism and the state’s […]
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A tweet stating the schedule of upcoming Lok Sabha elections has gone viral over social media platforms. Not only x, but the schedule has also been widely circulated on WhatsApp. Users are fiercely sharing this schedule and assuming that dates have been announced by the Election Commission of India elections 2024.A user by the name […]
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An X (formerly known as Twitter) user, @highcourtallad, took to the platform to share a video alleging that farmers were chanting “Khalistan Zindabad” slogans during the farmers protest. Following the account, other users too shared the video. Fact Check: Following an investigation by the DFRAC team, we put the video in keyframes for reverse search. […]
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Amid the ongoing tensions in Northern India due to Farmers Protest, an image is widely circulated. The image shows a bullet stuck in a metal utensil. While sharing the image, internet users are linking it to the recent Farmers Protest with the caption, “ Everything will be recorded in history Mr. Modi.” Fact Check We […]
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On February 14, 2024, a user named @BGatesIsaPyscho posted five images on X (formerly known as Twitter) depicting UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak receiving COVID-19 vaccinations from five different doctors. Fact Check Our team conducted thorough research to verify the information and confirmed that the five photos depict different doctors simultaneously. The exact dates of the “supposed COVID […]
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A screenshot of an X post (formerly Twitter) is going viral. It shows Fox News (@FoxNews) posting a statement, “Ivermectin’s hidden cost: New studies show that 68% of those who used ivermectin to treat or prevent Covid are suffering long-term bowel and urinary incontinence” without a link source or a date to locate the post in. […]
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News is going viral on social media site(X) claiming that unknown men abducted Indian Army Major Manoj Kumar of Military Intelligence (MI) from Srinagar. The news has been shared by various Pak-based handles on X. Intel Corps, a Pak-based media and news company shared an image on X(Twitter) and wrote: “Yesterday, Indian Army Major Manoj […]
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