Fact-Check: No, RSS did not build India’s 2nd largest COVID-19 care centre

On October 13,2021, a hashtag named #RSS_देश_की_शान begun trending on Twitter. Within this hashtag, users who support RSS came forward and voiced their support for the Hindu nationalist organisation. Within this hashtag users particularly used an image of a compound stating that RSS workers built India’s second largest COVID-19 care facility with 6000 beds and […]

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

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. […]

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