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Fact-Check: Anti-India and hashtags on Kashmir trend on Middle-Eastern Twitter with false claims

October 11, 2021November 18, 2021DFRAC Editor

Since October 10,2021, many hashtags related to India and Kashmir started to trend on Middle Eastern Twitter. These hashtags include #india_is_the_terrorist_country, #help_Kashmir, #Modi_is_a_terrorist , #save_kashmir, #free_kashmir. Each of these hashtags were supplemented with their Arabic versions as well. The hashtags on Kashmir called for the people to come together and stop India from ‘terrorizing’ Kashmir. […]

Fact-Check: Indian Muslim man inappropriately touches inappropriately touched woman in bus?

October 11, 2021November 18, 2021DFRAC Editor

On October 10,2021, a video of a man in a bus started to go viral on social media. In the video it can be seen that a woman is slapping a man who was allegedly repeatedly touching her. The man can be seen apologising. The video is being posted along with a caption saying,”इन पक्के […]

Fact-Check: Shah Rukh Khan becomes the target of fake claims and communal hate through #शाहरुख_खान_गद्दार_है

October 11, 2021November 18, 2021DFRAC Editor

On October 11,2021, a hashtag named #शाहरुख_खान_गद्दार_है started to trend on twitter with over 34,000 tweets. Within this hashtag, users have made grave accusations against Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, whose son Aryan is currently in the middle of a highly publicised narcotics investigation. Users felt it necessary to drag Khan into the situation with […]

Fact-Check: Indian soldiers captured by Chinese army? Photos circulated on Chinese social media

October 11, 2021November 18, 2021DFRAC Editor

Since the morning of October 9,2021, two images have been circulating on social media. These two images show injured soldiers making their way through a rocky region and the second seems to be showing a skirmish of some sort. One user from Pakistan claimed that one of the soldiers in the picture is Indian Air […]

Fact-Check: Hindu boy set on fire because of his love affair?

October 9, 2021November 18, 2021DFRAC Editor

On October 5, 2021, many users on Twitter and Facebook began posting a newspaper clipping of a newspaper report on the death of Hindu boy after he was burnt alive by his girlfriend’s Muslim family. People seemed to claim that this incident was extremely serious and was not being reported by any major news media […]

Fact-Check: Zee News and Aaj Tak misrepresent BJP Spokesperson Kuldip Singh Dhaliwal as ‘Farmer leader’

October 8, 2021November 18, 2021DFRAC Editor

In the last few days since the violence at Lakhimpur, Kuldip Singh Dhaliwal, a spokesperson for BJP has been invited to be a part of a panel on both Zee News and Aaj Tak. In both instances, he has been labelled as a ‘kisaan neta (farmers’ leader)’. Fact-Check: This however is a misleading statement as […]

Fact Check: Is the Kejriwal government really anti-temple and pro-mosque?

October 6, 2021November 18, 2021DFRAC Editor

The hashtag #मंदिर_विरोधी_केजरीवाल was trending on twitter on 5 October 2021. Upon analyzing the 100 Tweets, it was found that 8% were the original tweets, 85% were retweets and 7% were replies. It’s clear that most people are just amplifiers out there to retweet. Upon further examination of the tweets, it was found that most of […]

Fact-Check: Punjab CM brings back pension schemes? Facebook users claim

October 6, 2021November 18, 2021DFRAC Editor

On September 5,2021, many users on Facebook began posting a graphic of the new Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi bringing back new pension schemes for those government employees who were admitted after 2004. They congratulated him and celebrated his victory in Punjab. Fact-Check: We performed a keyword search on the issue and found that Channi […]

Fact-Check: Previously fact-checked video is now going viral on Middle-Eastern Twitter

October 2, 2021November 18, 2021DFRAC Editor

In the last few days, Middle Eastern twitter have started raising slogans against India demanding that everyone should boycott Indian products because of how Muslims are treated in India. Within this hashtag, many used violent videos to show how people are being beaten up in India. One such video posted by many users shows the […]

Fact-Check: #BoycottIndiaGoods goes viral in the Middle-East with fake claims about India

October 2, 2021November 18, 2021DFRAC Editor

Since the mass evictions that took place in Assam’s Darrang district, a hashtag called #BoycottIndianGoods has been trending voraciously on Twitter. The users from middle east criticized India for its policies and actions towards the minority communities. The hashtag was used thousands of times over the course of the last few days. Tensions began to […]

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Fact-Check: Hindu boy set on fire because of his love affair?

Fact-Check: Zee News and Aaj Tak misrepresent BJP Spokesperson Kuldip Singh Dhaliwal as ‘Farmer leader’

Fact Check: Is the Kejriwal government really anti-temple and pro-mosque?

Fact-Check: Punjab CM brings back pension schemes? Facebook users claim

Fact-Check: Previously fact-checked video is now going viral on Middle-Eastern Twitter

Fact-Check: #BoycottIndiaGoods goes viral in the Middle-East with fake claims about India

Video of PM Modi announcing free electricity for UP, Bihar found misleading

غزہ: لوگ بھوک سے یا خوراک کے حصول میں ہلاک ہونے پر مجبور، وولکر ترک

Fact Check: No evidence of 17 people killed in Jammu & Kashmir fake encounters in May 2025

Fact Check: Viral video of Assam flooded roads turns out to be false

Fact Check: Did China threaten India to stop Brahmaputra water? Read the reality