Claim A viral video shows the Police Commissioner and other officers distributing Iftar to children. The caption mentioned Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party regime in Uttar Pradesh. This Iftar Party was organized in a Police Station. Link; Archive Link Many users have shared the video with similar descriptions. Here and here are the links. Fact Check […]
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Pakistani-based accounts have allegedly claimed that “two innocent Kashmiri youth were arrested during a so-called search operation in Bandipora Hajin Road area.” The claim has been shared by an X user named Kashmir English, who has been found to be a frequent news peddler by the DFRAC Team. Fact Check Upon investigation, we found this […]
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A video is making rounds on X showing a man being thrashed by other men in the library. Users are sharing this video and claiming that a Muslim man was lynched inside a library by Hindutva men in Rajasthan, India because he refused to play Holi An account with the username @ ziajabed97 posted this […]
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Claim A viral post shows a video that depicts scenes inside an aircraft. The video is shared with a caption: “Passengers were pooping in the aisles as their flight from Chicago, Illinois to Calcutta, India on March 5th, was forced to return to Chicago as 11 out of 12 onboard latrines were clogged up with […]
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A shared video shows a bulldozer demolishing a structure resembling a mosque. Sharing the video, users have claimed the structure belongs to India, and the video shows a Mosque structure being destroyed by a bulldozer in India.A Twitter user named Radio Genoa shared the video and wrote,” Bulldozers in India demolish illegal mosques.”The archive link […]
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On Tuesday, March 11, some separatist militants hijacked a Passenger train, in a tunnel in Balochistan. The Jaffar Express, carrying around 400 passengers in nine bogies, was travelling from Quetta to Peshawar when militants intercepted it in a tunnel near the mountainous terrain of Gudalar and Piru Kunri. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) later claimed […]
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Claim A viral video shows an overcrowded train with passengers traveling on the rooftop of the carriage. A user shared the video with the caption: “Ohioans cheering on the arrival of Vivek,” misattributing it to the Indian railway system. Link 1, Link 2; Archive 1, Archive 2 Fact Check DFRAC conducted a reverse image search […]
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Claim A viral video shows how to unearth gold, silver, and coins after the Ganges’ water subsides from the river shore in Haridwar. Link Fact Check To verify the video, DFRAC did a reverse image search of a keyframe from the video. This led us to a YouTube video. It was uploaded on 23 October […]
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Claim Sharing a video of Afghanistan people’s celebration was used by many users claiming that Afghanistan burst in happiness over India’s ICC world cup win. The users praised the neighbor for showering bonhomie with India. Link Fact check Initially, the DFRAC team used the keyframes from the video to reverse search images on Google. The […]
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Claim A viral video of US President Donald Trump shows that he has returned from a recently concluded conference. In the wake of this conference, he has decided to take action against the nation of Qatar to stop funding terrorism. Link The video is shared with text in Arabic, Trump says: “It is unfortunate that […]
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