On September 7, 2021, TV9 Kannada’s YouTube channel posted a video of what looks like an area being bombed. The caption roughly translates to “Fights are happening day and night in Panjshir.” The video has been viewed 24,000 times on their YouTube channel. Fact-check: Upon reverse searching the key frames of the video, we found […]
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Claim: A Bangladeshi Facebook account named Md Belal has posted an image with the description “এই হলো ভারতীয় মুসলমান ভাইদের অবস্থা, আল্লাহ আপনি তাদের হেফাজত করুন আমিন,“, when translated it in English, it was written “This is the condition of Indian Muslim brothers, may Allah protect them Amin” The post got 63 likes, 8 comments […]
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Mohd Fahad Populist leaders want us to believe that news they don’t like or news they want to reject is fake simply because it is critical of them and their policies. The world is littered with such examples. As they are popular, almost cult-like, in their personalities, their fanbase, their voters tend to believe all […]
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A viral video first circulated 16 weeks ago has once again started making rounds on social media. According to the video and the caption, the video depicts how the Israeli force has captured the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The video was posted by “Pushpendra Kulshrestha Hindu Yoddha” on Facebook and currently has over 8,00,000 views […]
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On September 5, 2021, Priti Gandhi, a popular figure on twitter posted a video of Rakesh Tikait, the leader of Bharatiya Kisaan Union giving a speech at the kisan Mahapanchayat that is currently taking place in Uttar Pradesh. In the video, which is less than 20 seconds long, Tikait can be heard saying: “If such […]
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Lakhs of farmers gushed out into Muzaffarnagar on Sunday for the Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s largest mahapanchayat so far to hear Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait declare his resolution to expel the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh next year by tapping into rural anger and uniting farmers and workers across caste and religion. Thousands […]
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A video of the actress Urfi Javed seems to be going viral on social media. In the video, Javed can be seen walking with a suitcase. People have raised objections to her outfit and have called it skimpy. The outrage was mostly shared by male users on Twitter. Poet and writer Javed Akhtar has also […]
Continue Reading“Liquor sales should be sold through Aadhaar card. Government food subsidies should be stopped for alcohol buyers [sic],” the quote attributed to industrialist, philanthropist Ratan Tata read. “Those who have the facility to buy alcohol can definitely buy food. When we give them free food they buy alcohol,” it continued. The screenshot of this post […]
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Recent news reports have claimed that Panjshir Valley, an Afghan resistance army stronghold, has been captured by the Taliban. However, videos and images of the conflict zone have been circulating online and some of them are not credible. On September 1,2021, an account by the name of National Resistance Front posted a video showing a man […]
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For the past few days, an image of a plane on fire has been circulating on Facebook. Each of these posts claim that this is a US aircraft that crash landed in Farah province of Afghanistan and the crash injured hundreds of people. The post was circulated in Bengali as well as English. Other instances […]
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