Amidst the ongoing communal violence in Tripura, many videos and images have been circulating online to show just what is happening in the state. However, amongst these posts there is a lot of misinformation and fake news as well. On October 28, users began posting videos of a massive procession stating that this rally was […]
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On October 24,2021, India and Pakistan played their first match against each other at the T20 World Cup in Dubai. India suffered a huge setback and lost the match to Pakistan. Post the match, many users on Twitter began sharing a photo stating that ‘love jihad’ is taking place in Dubai. The image shows a […]
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On October 24,2021, a video started to circulate online which looks like CCTV footage of a restaurant. In the footage, it can be seen that the police intercepts a meal between a man and a woman and asks the boy to empty his pockets. Upon emptying his pockets, the police arrest him for attempting to […]
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Every once in a few months a recurring claim about Sweden seems to make rounds on social media. This claim suggests that Sweden is soon going to become completely cashless. The government is going to abolish all physical cash and shift the model completely to online transactions. Fact-Check: While Sweden has been mostly cashless for […]
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In the recent couple of days, a video of an interview has been posted on social media. In the video a man can be seen questioning the images released by NASA of earth from space. The man can be seen questioning the nature of these images calling them photoshopped and repurposed. In the video, the […]
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Nowadays social media platform has become the main source of news for the society. During the 2021 survey, more than 70 percent of respondents from Kenya, South Africa, Malaysia and the Philippines said they used social media as a source of news. In contrast, less than 40 percent of adults in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, […]
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On October 22,2021, a claim started to circulate online that an international taekwondo referee of Indian origin has converted to Islam in Iran. The people who posted this claim also said that the man is an officer of the Indian air force and posted his pictures along with it. Fact-Check: Upon reverse searching the image, […]
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Amidst the ongoing Cordelia drug case which has implicated children of Bollywood actors including Aryan Khan whose arrest has been much publicised in the media, many fake claims and misleading facts are flying around on social media. Actress Swara Bhaskar remains a contentious figure on Indian twitter known for being outspoken against the central government. […]
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On October 20, 2021 Prakash Javedkar, BJP MP posted a video of trains filled up to the brim with coal. Javedkar has claimed that the stations are running on “war footing” since the coal crisis was announced. The video has been viewed over 2,00,000 times on Twitter alone and has been posted by several others […]
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On October 22,2021, Shefali Vaidya, a popular figure on conservative social media posted a screenshot of an article in response to Shiv Sena politician Priyanka Chaturvedi’s tweet. Chaturvedi had commented on the recent backlash on brand FabIndia’s controversy over their Diwali ad campaign. Users took to social media to express their anger of the words […]
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