Fact Check: Video of Crowd at World Tribal Day Misleadingly Shared as Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Students’ Ki Goonj’ Event

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi held the ‘Students’ Ki Goonj’ programme in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Addressing students at the event, Rahul Gandhi targeted “blind followers” and said that the BJP-RSS “system” in the country is promoting blind followers instead of students. He said that the existing system wants blind followers, not students. Meanwhile, a video showing […]

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From Kashmir to India: How ‘Azad Urdu’ weaves an anti-India narrative

Azaad Digital is a multilingual digital news platform from Pakistan that publishes news, analysis, and fact-check content in English, Urdu, and Chinese. With the objective of expanding its reach to Urdu-speaking readers worldwide, this media network has launched a separate platform for the Urdu language named Azaad Urdu. Azaad Urdu presents itself as an independent, fact-based, and […]

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Keonjhar Triple Murder: Viral Communal Claim Misleading, Family Dispute Behind Killings

A video circulating on social media claims that “On January 25, 2026, three members of a Christian family Jitendra Soren, his wife Malati Soren, and their 15-year-old daughter were brutally murdered by a “Hindutva mob” in Nialijharan village, Keonjhar district, Odisha.” Fact Check: The DFRAC found the viral claim to be misleading.Upon investigation using a […]

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Fact Check: No LPG Crisis at Miranda House; Students Protested Over Poor Food Quality

A video circulating widely on social media shows female students holding placards and protesting. It is being claimed that the footage is from Delhi University’s women’s college, Miranda House, where students are demonstrating due to a food shortage caused by an LPG crisis. On X (formerly Twitter), a verified user, Varun Choudhary, shared the video, […]

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Fact Check: An old video of a protest against PM Modi in Aara is widely circulating with a misleading claim linking it to the Israel–Iran war

A video is going viral on social media in which a group of young people can be seen burning a dummy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While circulating the video, it is widely claimed that the protest in Aara is taking place due to a shortage of LPG and petrol. Through the viral video, some […]

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