CORONAVIRUS

As the Maharashtra state government has issued new rules amid growing Covid-19 cases in the state bringing back restrictions on religious, social and political gatherings, some social media posts have started circulating with a claim that policemen are using lathis to hit people who are violating norms. The state government of Maharashtra on February 22 imposed strict rules again including ...

Ever since Britain Prime Minister Boris Johnson, owing to new surge in Covid-19 pandemic in his country, cancelled his visit to India to attend the Indian Republic Day parade as Chief Guest this year, the major question remained among many as to who would be invited in such a short notice. Taking advantage of the void, many media organisations have ...

With a few countries already administering the COVID-19 vaccines to their citizens, vaccine talk has increased the momentum. News about the vaccine distribution mechanism are of utmost importance and many countries, including India, have decided to give the first dosages to frontline workers and then the others. DigitEye Team received a fact check query on its WhatsApp number. The claim ...

US President Donald Trump, in the third and final US Presidential Debate on October 23, claimed that the recovery rate of coronavirus infections is a staggering 99%, thus, belittling the viral infection’s impact on people and its deadly impact on humans. To reiterate his stand on opening the country to usual business despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump said, “99.9 (percent) ...

Bill Gates funded Pirbright Institute applied for a patent on coronavirus in 2015, claimed a Facebook post fuelling wild conspiracy theories behind the ongoing pandemic. It said the Event 201 by Bill Gates was a coronavirus simulation that starts in Wuhan, China and that ID 2020 injects toxic vaccine and monitors the movement via 5G. Here is a list of ...

A pandemic is also time ripe for the spread of misinformation. The slew of misinformation can range from the speculations of its origin, its effects, and most importantly its cure. With COVID-19, we saw a range of home remedies claiming that they could cure COVID-19 but they were not backed by any concrete scientific evidence. Digiteye received one such claim ...

Recently in late September, an article published on the Principia Scientific International claimed that the pandemic was pre-planned and was created with purpose. The exhaustive article has listed down points to base its claims. It was then shared by many and one such is the Madison Lyme Support Group. The claims it has made are backed by groups of doctors, ...

An image showing a person in an ICU ward of a hospital is making rounds rapidly, with a claim that the patient was US President Docknald Trump who was receiving treatment after he tested positive for the novel coronavirus or Covid-19. The image was published on Chinese social media platform Weibo on October, 4, 2020. The image shows a man ...

A viral image on social media is going viral with a quote attributed to US President Donald Trump. The image has a message below the President’s photo and reads: “The doctors said they’ve never seen a body kill the Coronavirus like my body. They tested my DNA and it wasn’t DNA, it was USA.” The context for the message is ...

Ever since COVID-19 took over our lives, there has been a barrage of information regarding the virus, its origin, the effect it has on people, among others. While some of the information is useful, most of them are pieces of misinformation and disinformation. Recently, several social media users shared a picture of a four-column pamphlet which allegedly debunks “the truth ...