Fact check: Rana Ayyub's photo with Alia and Pooja Bhatt falsely claimed to be of YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra

Fact check: Rana Ayyub’s photo with Alia and Pooja Bhatt falsely claimed to be of YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra

Jyoti Malhotra, a YouTuber from Haryana, has been arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan. Several videos and photos of Jyoti Malhotra’s visit to Pakistan are going viral on social media. Meanwhile, a photo featuring actresses Alia Bhatt and Pooja Bhatt is being shared with the claim that the woman with them is Jyoti Malhotra. […]

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Fact Check: Viral video claiming to show Pakistan’s retaliation on India is old and false

A video circulating online shows drone strikes and missile launches in an urban area, causing widespread destruction. Users sharing the footage claim it depicts a scene from India, allegedly targeted by Pakistan in a powerful retaliatory strike following an escalation by the Modi government, during which a Russian S-400 defence system was reportedly destroyed. Fact […]

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Fact Check: Viral Photos Claiming to Show U.S. Officials at Pakistan’s Kirana Hills Are Misleading

A series of three photographs circulating on social media claim to depict members of the U.S. Department of Energy inspecting a nuclear fallout site near Pakistan’s Kirana Hills, allegedly after an Indian airstrike on May 9. These images are being shared widely with captions suggesting a nuclear incident and international involvement in the aftermath. A […]

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Fake letter of Rajnath Singh instructing army to hide losses shared on social media

A letter purportedly from Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Northern Command has been circulating on social media. The letter instructs that during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Udhampur Air Base, there should be no written or verbal references to recent incidents involving the S-400 air defence […]

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False claim of Turkish and Azerbaijani citizens boycott of Indian tourists and products shared

False claim of Turkey and Azerbaijan citizens boycott of Indian tourists and products shared

On social media, Pakistan-based accounts have shared a claim about the rising tensions among Turkey, Azerbaijan and India in the Tourism sector. An account named Ironclad shared a claim that Turkish and Azerbaijani citizens have started a mass Boycott of Indian tourists and products. Multiple other accounts were also found that shared a similar claim, […]

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Fake News: Al Jazeera Shares Unverified Claim About Capture of Indian Pilot

On May 9, the Qatar-based news outlet Al Jazeera reported—citing unnamed Pakistani military sources—that Pakistani forces had captured an Indian Air Force pilot, Squadron Leader Shivani Singh. According to the report by correspondent Kamal Hyder, Singh was allegedly taken into custody after the Pakistan Army shot down the Rafale jet she was piloting. This claim, […]

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