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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Since October 10,2021, many hashtags related to India and Kashmir started to trend on Middle Eastern Twitter. These hashtags include #india_is_the_terrorist_country, #help_Kashmir, #Modi_is_a_terrorist , #save_kashmir, #free_kashmir. Each of these hashtags were supplemented with their Arabic versions as well. The hashtags on Kashmir called for the people to come together and stop India from ‘terrorizing’ Kashmir. […]
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On October 10,2021, a video of a man in a bus started to go viral on social media. In the video it can be seen that a woman is slapping a man who was allegedly repeatedly touching her. The man can be seen apologising. The video is being posted along with a caption saying,”इन पक्के […]
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Social media is flooded with news that Varun Gandhi, an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has removed BJP from his Twitter account after the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre. The news went viral when the names of Varun Gandhi and his mother Maneka Gandhi were missing from the list of BJP’s national executive announced […]
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On October 3,2021, a video of an Air India aircraft started to viral on all social media platforms. In the video, a aircraft can be seen under a foot-over bridge on a main road. Many claimed that this happened as an accident and that the aircraft landed there and got stuck. Fact-Check We performed a […]
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Since about September 25,2021, an image of what looks like Jio branded wheat flour has been going viral on social media. Users have been claiming that Jio’s parent company Reliance, has been buying grains at Rs. 17 and then selling it at Rs.50 per kilo. The claim has been going viral both on Twitter and […]
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On September 23,2021, a video started to circulate on Facebook of a man speaking of a new UN report that claims that the UN will be releasing a new global currency which will allow for all transactions to be tracked online. The video was captioned “The UN has a plan for REVELATION 13!!!” referring to […]
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On September 27,2021, a twitter page named ‘Maarwadi Club” posted a video of what looks like a woman trying to jump on the rail tracks of a metro station. It can be seen that the woman is helped back by someone and thankfully a grave accident is stopped. The video has over 2,200 views on […]
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An image of a painting was shared by hundreds of users on Facebook and Twitter claiming that a painting of the five Pandava brothers was placed inside Panjshir palace in Afghanistan. They claimed that this painting was a depiction of the time of Mahabharata when the area of Panjshir was called Gandhara. They also claimed […]
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On September 23,2021, a twitter user named Rupesh posted a claim that Gujarat is the first state to declare that caste based reservations are abolished in the state. He went on to list the places where there will no longer be any reservation for the next 25 years including railways, buses, government jobs and promotions. We […]
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