Category: Fake

A video is going viral on social media with the claim that the Yogi government has bulldozed the mosque of Maulana, who claimed the Hindu pilgrimage, not Badrinath but Badruddin Shah. Claim: बद्रीनाथ को मजार बताने वाले मौलाना की मस्जिद अवैध निकली। बाबाजी ने JCB चलवा दिया। This video was widely shared on Twitter and […]

Creating divisiveness through fake news and misinformation has become the norm amongst popular right wing twitter accounts. These accounts primarily target minorities by twisting the information as well as simply creating conflicts out of thin air . On June 22, 2021, twitter user @Krishna29892392 posted a screenshot of a newspaper advertisement that expressed a supermarket’s […]

A viral video was posted by the verified handle of Indian National Congress Punjab showing a city bus flooded with rainwater. The post locates this flooded bus to Delhi and takes a jab at Arvind Kejriwal’s government. The video has over 8.4 million views and has been shared 40,000 times. These numbers are staggering. The […]

In the last two days, a video began to be circulated on all social media platforms showing a massive traffic jam with multiple lanes. Some users and news media outlets claim this to be a video of tourists returning from Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh and others claimed it to be a video from Khandala, Maharashtra. Verified […]

While Twitter is increasingly becoming a polarized space, reflective of the current political landscape of India. There are a growing number of accounts that are emerging with a right wing narrative and a particular fondness for hate speech against minorities. The growing number of accounts has led to the creation of hate through fake news […]