A verified twitter account of the Chinese Government Official, Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 has posted a video claiming that the social media users are spreading fake news that there was no protest in Pakistan’s Gwadar district against China. Fact Check: The protests in Gwadar, Balochistan started on 16 November, 2021 and has been continuing till date. […]
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A newspaper clip is viral on social media since 28 Nov, 2021, on which it is written that “नहींदियावोटतोहबैंकअकाउंटसेकाटेंगे३५०रुपए”, which when translated means “If the vote is not given, then 350 rupees will be deducted from the bank account”. Many Twitterati posted the viral newspaper clip. Some of the accounts are Vaid Het Ram Suthar […]
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On November 13, an attack took place on paramilitary forces in Manipur’s Churachandpur district resulting in the deaths of 7 people including a commander and his family. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the Manipur Naga People’s Front (MNPF) claimed responsibility for the attack. Amidst this, an image of a military wreckage was shared hundreds […]
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As the UP elections get closer, the amount of fake news spreading online is also increasing. In this light, a video of an argument taking place between Akhilesh Yadav and Shivpal Yadav at a rally is going viral on Twitter and Facebook. In the video, it can be seen that Shivpal snatched the microphone from […]
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A video is being shared online showing a woman getting abducted on the street by a man. The video seems like it a CCTV footage and being shared online with a claim that women of India must be protected at all cost. मेरे देश की बेटियाँ… :(.#WomenSafety #India #MeriDelhi https://t.co/mYXnpzwwUN — Alka Lamba 🇮🇳 (@LambaAlka) […]
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On 1st Dec, 2021, hashtag #JusticeForRailwayStudents is trending at number one on twitter with 3.0M Tweets. Railway aspirants are furious with the government after the board has been halting the exams of Group D, candidates are demanding the Railway Recruitment Board to conduct the exam as soon as possible. To show their outrage against the […]
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A twitter account by the name Stacey Rudin, having 20K Followers claims that the WHO statement that the “Omicron” was first reported by South Africa on 11/24/21 is not right. WEF has reported this same variant-B.1.1.529, out of South Africa- way back in July. It can be seen this tweet has received around 4K retweets, […]
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On November 29,2021, the words ‘Hindu Gods’ was trending on Twitter within which users were celebrating the fact that comedian Munawar Faruqi declared that he would stop performing live after 12 of his shows got cancelled upon threats from Hindu organisations. Within the trend, a picture comparing shivlings in different parts of the world remained […]
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Some pictures of Haryana’s storyteller Devi Chitralekha are being shared on social media with the claim that she is married to a Muslim man who was once her driver. It was also claimed that Chitralekha hid the truth of her husband being a Muslim so that it doesn’t harm her career of being a narrator. […]
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A very popular lore has always been around that Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last Nizam of Hyderabad had donated over 5000 kilos of gold to fund the war against China to the Indian government. The popular conception is that this is still the largest amount ever donated by a person or an organisation. Recently, […]
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