On August 26 2021, TOLO News, a news agency from Afghanistan tweeted that a TOLO news reporter was beaten up by the Taliban. They also attached a link to a news report on the incident from their website. This tweet when translated from Persian to English read “TOLO News reporter killed by Taliban”. The tweet […]
Continue ReadingOn August 20,2021, a twitter user going by @noconversion posted a video that claimed that Delhi’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal attended a Christian conversion event in Delhi where hundreds of people were converted to Christianity. The video has been viewed over 32,000 times with 3,500 likes and 2,400 retweets. The handle itself has a massive […]
Continue ReadingOn August 23, 2021, Delhi Government inaugurated what they claimed to be ‘India’s first smog tower’. The inauguration was attended by CM of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal who also cut the ribbon on the tower. The project has cost 20 crore and is an almost 8 storey structure located in Connaught Place. The smog tower is […]
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On August 5, 2021, a Facebook post about a child prodigy began to go viral on Facebook. The posts claimed that an 11 year old girl from Pakistan called Tara Baloch passed an IQ test administered from Mensa scoring 162 points. The post also claimed that this score is higher than that of Stephen Hawking […]
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Claim: A picture of the destroyed mosque is going viral on social media with the claim that it is a mosque in Pakistan which was demolished by the Taliban. Upon further analysis, we found the originator of the tweet. It was first posted by जानवी सिंह on 21 August,2021 at 5:48PM. After that, the false […]
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On August 21, 2021, a page on Facebook named God Says posted an image of a man and his alleged infant daughter running away from something and from the looks of it, they seem distressed. God Says has close to 1 million likes on Facebook. The post reads that a good man protects his daughter […]
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On August 16, 2021, a video showing men auctioning off women on the streets went viral on social media platforms all over the world. Various posts of the same video were viewed thousands of times since then. The same video was posted on Twitter and Facebook again can be found here , here and here. […]
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With a massive amount of news coming out of Afghanistan, there is also a steady stream of fake news that also seems to be spreading. Recently, a picture of a few people painting a mural was shared hundreds of times on Facebook and Twitter. People claimed that the people supporting the Taliban are painting murals […]
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Claim: A video of the damaged railway track is viral with the claim that it is the Jamalpur track in Bihar which has been damaged after the Bihar floods. Fact Check: After taking different frames from the viral video, its reverse image search was done. It turned out that the video is of Shivpuri railway […]
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On August 22,2021, DMK IT Wing’s Deputy Secretary Isai S D posted a video of a couple getting married on his feed. The caption read “Tamil Nadu is the only state that accepts the Hindu marriages without Brahminical rituals! They can be registered under Self-Respect Marriages (Suyamariyathai) /Reformation Marriages (Seerthirutha) HINDU MARRIAGE (TAMIL NADU AMENDMENT) […]
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