Ever since 2017, the famous image of world leaders conversing together has been making rounds on fake news domain and this year too, similar image surfaced with an image of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Facebook. It showed Imran Khan surrounded by global political leaders. Even, US President Donald Trump is seen sitting on the right side of ...
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Did this Kerala college saw raising of Pakistan flag inside the campus? Fact Checkreports
Many TV news channels have gone wild alleging under “Breaking News” on Thursday, August 31 that the Kerala police arrested 25 (some reports said 30) students of Silver Arts College in Kozhikode, for allegedly waving the Pakistani flag during the college election campaign. The number of students varied but all major news outlets from Times Now, Deccan Chronicle, MyNation, OpIndia ...
Read More »Fake photo of AP used as police action on Kashmir protesters
Recently a photo allegedly depicting the police attack on women in Jammu and Kashmir has started making rounds on social media on the occasion of the central government amending Article 370 and declaring Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territories as Union Territories. Indian State terrorism in #Kashmir. Cruelty at its peak. pic.twitter.com/jlomtgi1rN — Ijaz Ul Haq (@ijazulhaq) September 1, 2016 ...
Read More »BJP MP Vijay Goel uses wrong image on Art 370
Amid a hyped spirit over the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, Bharatiya Janata Party Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Goel from Delhi has gone a step ahead to put up a poster claiming it to be of a Kashmiri woman in support of it, just in front of his official residence. Later, he tweeted on August 8, taking an ...
Read More »Is this ‘golden boy’ grandson of MK Stalin? Fact check
Recently, an image of a boy wearing golden jewellery around his neck and hands, is being shared on Facebook. The caption claimed that he was Tamil politician AIADMK chief MK Stalin’s grandson. Posted by Facebook user Tushar Natrajan, the image of the young man showing off flashy gold chains and other ornaments on Facebook page called ‘New India’. It has ...
Read More »Hyderabad MP Owaisi claims India Gate has Muslim martyrs’ names during freedom struggle; Fact check
Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP and AIMIM party chief Asaduddin Owaisi at a rally on July 13, 2019 said that Delhi’s India Gate has the names of 95,300 freedom fighters and out of which, 61,945 names are of Muslim martyrs. Here’s the video: While taking a jibe at RSS, Owaisi said out of all the freedom fighters’ names written on India ...
Read More »What’s Rahul Gandhi’s birth time nurse Rajamma’s age? Fact check
Rahul Gandhi recently tweeted the photo of meeting a retired nurse, who said that she was a trainee nurse at Holy Family Hospital in New Delhi where Rahul Gandhi was born, in 1970, amid a controversy in social media questioning his claim for Indian citizenship itself. Nurse Rajamma Vaavathil, who responded during a questioning on Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship, said she ...
Read More »Did Rahul Gandhi win with record majority in Wayanad? Fact Check
In the Lok Sabha elections concluded recently, Congress President Rajiv Gandhi contested from Wayanad in Kerala, though he lost in Amethi constituency in Uttar Pradesh. Social media was abuzz on the day of results on May 23 with some tweets claiming that the Congress president had won in Kerala with a record 8,54,297 votes, highest of all the 542 constituencies ...
Read More »Video on boy tweaked to claim ‘Hindu beaten up’ goes viral; Fact Check
A video just on the sidelines of voting in West Bengal has gone viral with a claim that a Hindu boy is being thrashed by a group of men. It claimed that the boy had hoisted a flag of BJP on top of his house in West Bengal. The video was widely shared online and just before the final phase ...
Read More »Video claims woman thrashing BJP MLA in Himachal Pradesh? Fact check
A viral video posted on a Facebook page is going viral this month coinciding with the Lok Sabha elections. It shows a woman thrashing a leader with her slipper in Himachal Pradesh. The 32-second long video shows two women walking to the leader at a Himachal Parivahan Mazdoor Sangh meeting with flowers. One of them suddenly takes out her slipper ...
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