Digit Eye Fact Checker of News & Social Media

Look at this image of The Hindu newspaper where an item with the headline, “Vote UNP for Tamil Eelam, Ranil agreed autonomy: PM Wijayakala” and the issue was dated July 11, 2012. It claims the news item as one about Ranil Wickramsinghe promising Tamil Eealm autonomy, a highly controversial issue and the current PM who is Prime Minister since 2015 ...

A clip showing former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar speaking as if he is a Muslim, despite the fact that everybody knows that he is a known Communist Party of India member. Here’s the clipped video circulated by BJP India on its Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/deshdkapoor/videos/740463559646700/ Seeing the video, people tend to believe that Kanhaiya Kumar was speaking as if he ...

The ‘Statue of Unity’, inaugurated by Indian PM Narendra Modi on Oct.31 marking the Unity Day in India has led to controversy and authorities have removed the plaque showing wrong Tamil translation and also missing many Indian languages, including Telugu. However, it was effectively painted as a fake news later, blaming those who raised questions over it. Reverse image search ...

The attack on Congress President Rahul Gandhi by rivals is visible from the following photograph, which at the very first glance creates resentment for a reader. This photo was not a real one, but flipped, hence showing the right as left hand. Being circulated by YogiSena Gkp on Facebook, this image was photo-shopped to send out a wrong notion about ...

After the recent controversy over the unveiling of the world’s tallest statue for Sardar Vallabhai Patel at Rs.3,000 crore on the occasion of his birth anniversary that also coincided with the death anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. While tributes to Indira Gandhi were all over the media, here’s one message that popped up from the usual suspects whom ...

The issue of Ram mandir has again taken centre-stage in Indian politics and fake news attributed to secular parties are making rounds. One such quote over the latest controversy on Ram Mandir was attributed by a right wing group to Congress leader Kapil Sibal, as if he was saying, “I will not allow building Ram Mandir in my life span.” ...

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh was under social media wrath when he tweeted a picture of old or discarded ambulances from Andhra Pradesh, to be precise, in Vijayawada and criticised Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath saying that they were lying unused in UP due to his policies. A Google Reverse Image search shows that the picture was actually published in ...

Amid ongoing rehabilitation woes after sudden Kerala floods, many volunteers and army jawans are in the forefront to save the victims from agony but fake news and fake claims have overtaken them, thanks to social media messages. See the image widely circulated on Facebook below: Posted by Srikumar Sridhar who has used this image with a caption on Facebook claiming ...

Desperation ahead of polls is natural but here’s a new way of interpreting history while seeking votes. Strange interpretations in these images being put out on different platforms of social media tend to misinform people. The following image was put out by @BJPalindia that has vowed to reinvent strategy to save Narendra Modi from Rahul Gandhi. It says that the Nehru ...

Pakistan has published 20 so-called commemorative stamps under caption ‘Atrocities in Indian-occupied Kashmir’, including a fake stamp that uses the photo of Kashmiri Pandits’ protest photo in Delhi that has nothing to do with the alleged atrocities. In a letter addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, a Kashmiri Pandit group called ‘Roots in Kashmir’ (RIK) claimed that one ...