With Indian elections entering the second phase of voting on Thursday, April 18, 2019, a tweet was going viral coinciding with the voting taking place in Tamil Nadu, which is home to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google CEO sundar pichai caste his vote #Sarkar #OruViralPuratchi — SARKAR ASHOK (@ashok_nanban) April 18, 2019 It was tweeted by one Sarkar Ashok under ...
Read More »Debunked Lingayat fake letter to Sonia Gandhi resurfaces in Karnataka
In Karnataka, fake religious letters have become common before every elections and one such letter debunked last year by fact checkers has again popped up blaming Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. The letter allegedly written by Karnataka Congress leader MB Patil to Sonia Gandhi way back in July 2017 has made it to Twitter this year by the Karnataka unit of ...
Read More »PM Modi touching Sonia Gandhi’s feet? Fake image going viral
अपने बेटे से कहो 72 हजार और 22 लाख नौकरी के बारे में ना बोले नहीं तो मेरा क्या होगा गुजरात जाना पड़ेगा वहां की जनता भी अब जुमले में नहीं फसती 😀😀 pic.twitter.com/R5E6t0W2Wk — neha kumari { चौकीदार चोर है } (@SheikhMdTajUdd1) April 3, 2019 See the above image that is widely shared and being circulated in social media ...
Read More »Congress photo on Rahul Gandhi rally in Nagpur: Fact check
The Twitter handle of Indian Youth Congress has shared four images of Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s rally held in Nagpur on April 4, 2019 showing huge crowds as audience to his meeting. The Twitter images with had a caption that read: “The enormous wave of love and support for Congress President Shri @RahulGandhi from every corner of India is testament ...
Read More »Kerala IUML flags mistaken for Pakistani flags? Fact check
Muslim League flags all over Wayanad. 2)Dilution of AFSPA promised in Kashmir, to please jihadis and kill our jawans. 3)Seditions act being removed to help traitors. *Tukde tukde scums * Their agenda seems to be to weaken India. Rahul Gandhi for you!! #2019LokSabhaElections pic.twitter.com/86BZuCh66j — Koena Mitra (@koenamitra) April 4, 2019 On the eve of Rahul Gandhi’s rally in Wayanad ...
Read More »Jignesh, JNU brigade assaulted in Begusarai? Fact check
In Begusarai Lok Sabha constituency of Bihar, former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar is contesting from the Communist Party of India (CPI) ticket and many former JNU students and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani too were campaigning aggressively. However, the local caste politics have started surfacing and claimed that Mevani and his JNU brigade was assaulted by local people while campaigning in ...
Read More »Did Kalraj Mishra say on stage, ‘If I come down, I’ll shoot you’? Fact check
Congress spokesperson has made a remark on Twitter that BJP MP Kalraj Mishra was threatening to shoot protestors while speaking at an event and circulated the following link to a video. The 22-second video shows former union minister and BJP MP from Deoriya threatening to shoot those who were protesting while he was speaking. while he was speaking at an ...
Read More »Did pro-Modi chanting disrupt Rahul Gandhi’s Ujjain rally recently? Fact check
The above video on Facebook has gone viral depicting that a rally by Rahul Gandhi in Ujjain last week has been interrupted by slogan-shouting mob who repeatedly said, “Modi”,”Modi”. It was uploaded by one Rajiv Mittal and the 12-second video ends abruptly after Rahul Gandhi says that they should be allowed to raise slogans. The comment says that Rahul Gandhi’s ...
Read More »Church in Pakistan burnt in revenge against New Zealand shooting? Fact Check
A video has gone viral depicting a burnt church with a claim that it was done as a revenge for the New Zealand firing in Pakistan. On Friday, March 15, 2019 an Australian white man fired indiscriminately at Al Nou and Linwood Mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 and injuring another 50 people. He had livestreamed the entire attack ...
Read More »Disappeared JNU student Najeeb joined ISIS? False photo making rounds
When BJP took up prefixing “Chowkidar” to all its members on Twitter, Fatima Nafis, mother of the mysteriously disappeared JNU student Najeeb, has asked them where her son is? Here’s the tweet by her: If you are a chowkidar then tell me where is my son Najeeb ? Why Abvp goons not arrested ? Why three toped agencies failed to ...
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