Since PM Modi has been on a visit to the US, many doctored and misleading images of protest against him are being used on social media. A hashtag used to criticize Modi’s trip called #नाक_कटा_आया is also trending on twitter. The hashtag is being used not only by small accounts but also verified blue ticked […]
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On September 27,2021 an image of PM Modi on the front page of The New York times was vigorously forwarded on WhatsApp and twitter. The headline read “Last,Best Hope of Earth” and the byline was “world’s most loved and most powerful leader, is here to bless us” indicating Modi’s recent visit to the US. The […]
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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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On September 23,2021, Hitesh Shankar, the editor of the weekly magazine Panchjanya posted a series of tweets claiming that a temple in the Noor Nagar area of Delhi was demolished. He claimed that since this was a Muslim neighbourhood, they sought to demolish a temple that had existed their for the last 50 years and […]
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On September 10,2021, the Chief Minister of Goa Dr. Pramod Sawant declared that Goa has now successfully vaccinated 100% of its population with the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. With this claim, he also congratulated the healthcare workers of Goa and the image posted along with the claim features his picture as well as PM […]
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On September 22,2021, BJP workers Priti Gandhi and C T Ravi shared a video of Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Singh cutting a cake together. They claimed that Singh was not even allowed to cut his own birthday cake. In the video, it can be seen that both Singh and Gandhi cut the cake and then […]
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A tweet got viral of Mansukh Mandaviya who is serving as Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Chemical and Fertilizers of India. He called for a major push to the COVID-19 vaccinations drive during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday on Friday, 17th Sept, saying it would be a perfect gift for him. “Prime Minister Narendra […]
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On September 22,2021, BJP MLA from Goa, Prashant Umrao posted a video of Arvind Kejriwal seemingly criticizing and threatening people of Gujarat. In this video, it is implied that Kejriwal hates everyone from Gujarat. In the video’s caption too, Umrao warns the people of Gujarat to pay heed to the words spoken in the video. […]
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On September 19,2021, users on Facebook started posting an image with a lot of text in it. The text in Hindi claimed that the Indian army had a Muslim regiment which was disbanded after the soldiers refused to fight in the war against Pakistan in 1965. Several users made this claim on Facebook. Fact-Check: Upon […]
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Humans who designed search engines and algorithms behind those are now increasingly falling prey to the same.The algorithms are like a stray yet mysterious spider, which nobody knows which way will go or what direction and to what extent will cast its web.Several companies around the world are reaping benefits of this uncontrolled means by […]
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