A fake account of former Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi has been consistently spreading fake news and hate on twitter. The username of this account is @THEGOGAI. This account was created in October 2019 and has a whopping 1,00,000 followers. The account’s content has got nothing to do with the figure it is impersonating […]
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A new innovative way for internet scamming has emerged on reselling websites such as Olx. Olx serves as a platform for individuals to sell and buy second-hand appliances and goods where one can even advertise and facilitate direct communication between the buyers and the sellers. With the advent of payment applications such as Paytm, GooglePay […]
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A video is going viral on social media with the claim that the Yogi government has bulldozed the mosque of Maulana, who claimed the Hindu pilgrimage, not Badrinath but Badruddin Shah. Claim: बद्रीनाथ को मजार बताने वाले मौलाना की मस्जिद अवैध निकली। बाबाजी ने JCB चलवा दिया। This video was widely shared on Twitter and […]
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Nisar Siddiqui (Research Fellow DFRAC) Fake News is a type of hoax or deliberate spread of misinformation with the intent to mislead in order to gain financially or politically. Fake News is related to propaganda whose purpose is to spread information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicise a particular […]
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Creating divisiveness through fake news and misinformation has become the norm amongst popular right wing twitter accounts. These accounts primarily target minorities by twisting the information as well as simply creating conflicts out of thin air . On June 22, 2021, twitter user @Krishna29892392 posted a screenshot of a newspaper advertisement that expressed a supermarket’s […]
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On June 18,2021, PTI reported that a study conducted by IIT Gandhinagar and 8 other schools found traces of COVID-19 virus in water bodies. Many news sites and channels immediately took this story up because of its sensational nature. Samir Abbas, Executive Editor, TV9 Bharatvarsh tweeted that people need to be aware about the fact […]
Continue ReadingOn July 26, 2021, popular Facebook page NAMO India posted a video footage of a mountain peak with the caption praising the Indian Government and its efforts to capture the peak of Mount Kailash for the first time in history.The video has been viewed over 7500 times on Facebook. Same video with similar caption shared […]
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Newspapers are till date the most authenticated source of news. Simply because they are the only medium of information which once published can’t be changed or edited or modified. A popular phrase in newsrooms is ‘what we print is history, rest is mystery.” Newspapers as well as magazines’ reports are presented after years and even […]
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On July 21, 2021, Harinder S Sikka, retired Navy official and author of the book ‘Calling Sehmat’ inspired the Bollywood movie ‘Raazi’ posted a video claiming that a juice vendor in Mumbai named ‘Abdul’ was caught selling juice laced with infertility pills and urine. Sikka called upon the ‘Muslim community’ to condemn this act and […]
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A viral video was posted by the verified handle of Indian National Congress Punjab showing a city bus flooded with rainwater. The post locates this flooded bus to Delhi and takes a jab at Arvind Kejriwal’s government. The video has over 8.4 million views and has been shared 40,000 times. These numbers are staggering. The […]
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