As in our previous report we mentioned how the social media giant Facebook ‘promotes global division and ethnic violence’ in India and lacking tools to identify and stop hate speech from its platform as told by the Facebook ex-employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen. In this report, we are digging deeper into the subject, mentioning few […]
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On October 14,2021, users began posting a claim that the famous Akbar Road in New Delhi is being renamed to Samrat Vikramaditya Marg. The viral post was shared simply as a claim and also as a graphic by many on both Facebook and Twitter. Fact-Check: However, this claim is false. Representatives from Boom Live contacted […]
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On October 17,2021, Suresh Chavhanke, Editor-in-Chief of Sudarshan News, posted a video of what looks like a classroom in which a teacher is brutally beating up a student, grabbing him by his hair. The video is disturbing and looks to be filmed secretly by other students. The video was posted by Suresh Chavhanke and the […]
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In this era of digitization, cases of cyber fraud or online scams are heard every day in India. According to Microsoft’s 2021 Global Tech Support Scam Research Report, it is shown that consumers in India experienced relatively high “scam encounter rate” of 69% in the last 12 months, which has decreased just by one percent […]
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In the past few weeks, an image of the CID department of Kolkata is going viral on social media. Users are posting a picture of a very dilapidated building that looks to be really old as well. Users are ridiculing this picture and taking digs at CM Mamata Banerjee for the condition of the building. […]
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“World-famous Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan dies in accident” reads an article of Myanmar News in Burmese language on 7th Oct 2021. Recently, some images have been circulated across some websites and social media platforms claiming that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan died in a plane crash. This claim was circulated across the internet after […]
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On October 13,2021, at the book launch of “Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition” written by Uday Mahurkar and Chirayu Pandit, the Defence Minister of India, Rajnath Singh addressed the gathering and spoke for a few minutes. Upon addressing connections between Savarkar and Gandhi, Rajnath Singh said the following, “Lies were spread […]
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On October 14,2021, Sambit Patra, National Spokesperson from BJP posted a video of a Congress rally led by Priyanka Gandhi Vadhra. In the video it can be seen and Vadhra and a few senior leaders are standing on the podium while azan is playing in the background. Patra claimed that that Vadhra purposefully played the […]
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On October 14,2021, a user named @Palashok_ posted a video of what looks like a news coverage by ANI news. In the video it can be seen that cops were attacked by goons in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur. The cop who was attacked is named Sushma Yadav details the incident that she was attacked by BJP […]
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On October 12,2021 amidst news of the growing coal crisis in Delhi and all over the country, an advertisement by the Aam Aadmi Party began to be shared widely on social media. In the advertisement, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is asking for citizens to donate coal to the government in order to keep the electricity […]
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