Digiteye India on its WhatsApp received the message for fact checking as the news has been making headlines in newspapers. Amid coronavirus outbreak, Indian social media has been abuzz with many claims and counter-claims and the latest one involved India’s Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata. The article was published by a regional daily based in Jamshedpur on its front page ...
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Wibs bread shut down after worker tests positive? Fact Check
Wibs Bread, located in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, produces about 3,000 slices of bread per hour and the company retains 46% of the market share in Greater Mumbai. But amid the coronavirus outbreak, Wibs Bread is going viral for a wrong reason on social media platforms. Digiteye India received the following message on WhatsApp for fact check: Wibs is a ...
Read More »Claims of Joy Alukkas owner dies of coronavirus go viral; Fact Check
Digiteye India received a message forward which stated that the owner of Joyalukkas jewelry group — Joy Alukkas — is dead. The message, which is making rounds on social media, claims that the owner of the group is dead because of the coronavirus but his body could not be brought back to India because of the current lockdown in the ...
Read More »Angel Broking message on suspending crude trade triggers bankrupt rumors; Fact Check
The price of a barrel of oil went almost negative for the first time on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The global demand took a massive dive for the worst amid the coronavirus outbreak as airlines and other buyers are not using much crude as they normally do. Many brokers endured heavy losses in MCX or the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) in ...
Read More »IMF webinar under Raghuram Rajan, its takeaway points trending on WhatsApp; Fact Check
A WhatsApp message is making the rounds since the morning of Tuesday, April 21, stating that there was a webinar held by the IMF and Raghuram Rajan, former RBI governor. It has shown points from showing how Indian economy will take the shape once the coronavirus is contained. Here’s the WhatsApp message: The so-called takeaway points clearly point out ...
Read More »Video of a fruit vendor licking finger while arranging oranges goes viral; Fact Check
A video of an old fruit vendor seen licking his finger while arranging oranges on his cart has gone viral on WhatsAppa and other social media platforms at a time when the whole country is gripped in coronavirus pandemic. The message on Twitter by a user reads: “People should decide whom u want to buy things from. Watch this fruit ...
Read More »Restaurant worker blowing in food packs? Old video debunked by Singapore Food Agency resurfaces
A video with a message is making rounds on social media. It depicts a packaging worker in a restaurant, where a sticker of Foodpanda is visible, blowing air through mouth into plastic food bags with food. As coronavirus continues to spread scaring many people away, this video has been going viral with devastating results in India. Here’s the video: Here’s ...
Read More »WHO advised not to eat bakery food items due to Coronavirus? Fact Check
A message started circulating widely on social media with a message asking people not to eat bakery food.It claimed that the bakery food is not washable even if infected from the coronavirus. The message next to the logo of the World Health Organization (WHO) started attracting attention at a time when Coronavirus is closely monitored by people and they look ...
Read More »Should we not buy China toys during Holi due to coronavirus? Fact check
As the festival of colours, Holi falls on March 10 this year, a claim is going viral on social media that Chinese toys imported for the festival should be avoided since they will be infected with the novel coronavirus. Here’s a Facebook message that appeared on February 16 along with a copy of Indian Ministry of Health advisory on preventing ...
Read More »Tata Group not to recruit JNU students? Fact Check
Amid clashes with outsiders entering and thrashing JNU students, a viral post on social media claimed that Tata Group, one of the biggest business conglomerates in India, has decided not to recruit JNU students for employment. Jawaharlal Nehru University is known for its cream of talent ranging from top scientists, bureaucrats and even Union cabinet ministers in the current government. ...
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