INTRODUCTION Saffron Diaries (@SaffronDiaries) is an official page running on Twitter with a following of more than 2,000 accounts. According to its Twitter bio, the page is a non-partisan, journalists-run platform, which shares real-time information and analysis, not propaganda. But while scrolling through the content of the page, the DFRAC team found the material being […]
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Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai shared a video of the Vande Bharat Express running under the flyover of the expressway corridor between Bengaluru and Mysuru with the help of a drone. He has captioned this video in his tweet: “ What a view! 10-lane Bengaluru- Mysuru Expressway alongside Vande Bharat Express, a visual depicting the […]
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A video is going viral or resurfacing on social media where a person is claiming to be Irish singer-songwriter and political activist ‘Bob Geldof’ and is predicting the advent of internet and smartphones and information slowly going viral across social media platforms. Social media users are also claiming that 23 years ago when BBC interviewed […]
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A video of PM Modi speaking at the parliament house is getting viral on social media. While sharing this video many users are criticizing Modi, as according to them central minister Nitin Gadkari does not clap after the completion of Modi’s speech. Many users of the opposition started posting this video. A user named @AhmedKhabeer_ […]
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A video is getting viral on social media. In this video, it can be seen that some women are holding a man and they are also beating him naked. A user named Raghav Chaturvedi shared the video on Twitter and Caption: “ A Muslim youth molested a Hindu woman in the market.” Source: Twitter Similarly, […]
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After the report of Hindenburg Research on Adani Group, the politics has become high in India. In both the Houses of the Parliament, the opposition parties targeted the government. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi lashed out at the government on the issue of Adani. Meanwhile, a picture is becoming fiercely viral on social media. In this […]
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The recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria is a deep tragedy that has affected the nations and will continue to haunt them as the tremors carry on. However, between the onslaught of prayers and condolences for the aggrieved, a lot of fake and misleading media is being circulated by several accounts on social media. It’s […]
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A video is getting viral on social media sites. It can be seen in the video that a big building is collapsing and its pieces fall into the streets. Social media users are claiming that this video forms the recent catastrophe of an earthquake that hit Turkey. By sharing this video a social media user […]
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The photo of a temple is becoming fiercely viral on social media. In this photo, there is a green flag inside the temple, on which 786 is written. Social media users are calling it an Islamic flag. Users who shared this photo are claiming that the Chandi Mata temple in Gunderdehi, Chhattisgarh has an Islamic […]
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A video is going viral on social media sites. It can be seen in the video that a man jumps off a building to save himself from the earthquake. Social media users claim that people jump from the buildings due to turkey’s M7.8 powerful earthquake. By sharing this video a social media user caption: “ […]
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