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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With the current occupation of Afghanistan by the Taliban, largely known for their regressive ideas about women, there has been an outpour on social media about the concerns for women currently living in Afghanistan. An image in the ambit of this concern was posted on social media platforms recently which showed a hazy photograph of […]
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A video is being shared on all social media platforms showing a group of men threatening India over Kashmir. The man in the video is speaking in Urdu and goes on to say that Muslims have been preparing for a battle for the last 100 years. The video has been shared over thousands of times […]
Continue ReadingResearch done by TransUnion tells us a lot of revealing facts about the extent at which online scams are taking place in India. The research shows that the number of fault attempts and cases rose by 28.3% from March 2020 to March 2021. The research is proprietary in nature and provides us with a detailed […]
Continue ReadingShefali Vaidya is a popular Indian author who has 5 lakh followers on Twitter. Shefali regularly posts about her views on politics and society. On August 18, Shefali posted a picture of what looked like a man with two women in chains and wearing burqas. Her caption seemed to suggest that this is an image […]
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On August 21, 2021, a screenshot of Republic Tv’s tweet started to make rounds on social media. The tweet was a news bulletin with the hashtag #RepublicwithTaliban. This prompted a large protest on the website with people demanding the arrest of Arnab Goswami and to boycott Republic TV altogether. Fact-Check: We scanned Republic TV’s twitter […]
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There is a relative lack of data on the intersection of misinformation and misogyny in Indian politics. In our previous pieces, we have tried to highlight a few ways in which misinformation and disinformation impacts women differently than men and how members of the LGBTQ community and cis-gender women from all backgrounds are more adversely […]
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