On September 26,2021, several verified blue-ticked accounts on Twitter started to use the hashtag #FreeTemples to vocalize their contempt on the issue of temple taxes in India. They claimed that only Hindu temples in India have to pay taxes whereas the same does not apply to churches and mosques. Users such as Elvish Yadav, Gaurav […]
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On September 30,2021, news websites reported that former Chief Minister of Punjab, Capt. Amarinder Singh removed the word ‘Congress’ from his bio on Twitter. Singh resigned in the middle of a very public battle within the Congress party. This was reported by NDTV, Hindustan Times, Zee News, The Tribune & India TV Fact-Check: We went through […]
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In the last 5 days or so, a newspaper clipping of Jansatta has been going viral on Facebook and Twitter. The newspaper clipping shows a picture of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan along with a little bit of text which says that he credits of his success and fame to his Muslim brothers and that […]
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On September 25,2021, a video started to go massively viral on social media concerning the public beating of a police officer. The video shows a police officer beaten up in public on a street. The claim that was posted along with this video was that Muslims in Bareilly were mercilessly beating up a policeman just […]
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In the last few days, Middle Eastern twitter have started raising slogans against India demanding that everyone should boycott Indian products because of how Muslims are treated in India. Within this hashtag, many used violent videos to show how people are being beaten up in India. One such video posted by many users shows the […]
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Since the mass evictions that took place in Assam’s Darrang district, a hashtag called #BoycottIndianGoods has been trending voraciously on Twitter. The users from middle east criticized India for its policies and actions towards the minority communities. The hashtag was used thousands of times over the course of the last few days. Tensions began to […]
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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 30,2021, a hashtag named #घुसपैठियों_से_असम_मुक्त_हो started trending on Twitter and quickly reached the top five spot in a matter of hours. A total of more than 50,000 tweets were made within the hashtag. We fact checked some of the statements made within the hashtag that ranged from misleading to downright fake. But what […]
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On September 28,2021, Sudhir Chaudhary, the Editor-in-chief of Zee News posted a clip of BKU leader Rakesh Tikait speaking to the media. In the clip, Tikait can be seen saying that “the next target is media houses. If you want to survive then support us or else you will suffer”. Chaudhary captioned the video further […]
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On September 30,2021, #AntiIndiaCongress started to trend on twitter. Within this hashtag, the users targeted the INC and their decision to induct Kanhaiya Kumar into the party. As of when this piece was being written, the hashtag had a whopping 27,000 tweets within it. Some verified handles also used the hashtag most notably, Yogi Devnath, […]
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