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Chennai has witnessed incessant rains with flood water entering houses and inundating roads. Coinciding with the natural disaster, social media is abuzz with images of destruction and the plight of people in the city. Some of the images and videos claimed to have been showing a waterlogged Chennai airport, as several flights were suspended on Thursday, 11 November, 2021. Among ...

Recently, Twitter has seen several Climate Change warnings on the sidelines of the Glasgow Climate Change Summit or the COP26. One such post showed a bizarre image of a map showing most of the land features disappearing in the United States in 30 years if climate change is not reversed. The message that accompanied the tweet read: “Scientists say this map ...

An alarming video is going viral on WhatsApp claiming that around 500 tonnes of Somali banana that had arrived in the markets, contain a worm called Helicobacter. It stated: “Hello friends and people please spread this video as much as possible. Recently, 500 tons of bananas from Somalia arrived in the markets, which contain a worm called Helicobacter that releases ...

Greta Thunberg, the 18-year-old environmental activist, has been a target of several allegations and morphed images with false messages on social media. However, she has increasingly become the world’s youth icon who came out harsh on many global leaders from Russian President Vladimir Putin to former US President Donald Trump. Ahead of the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) to the ...

The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in India crossed 100 crore doses on October 21, a gigantic milestone achieved by the country. However, there are conflicting statements making rounds in the media, creating lot of confusion about the exact number of  people fully vaccinated. Here’s one such confusing claims on twitter: ONE BILLION vaccinated.. thanks to this great man.. ...

A video depicting a Kerala police Officer has been going viral on WhatsApp with a claim in Kannada that said, “Indu Kerala Nale…” that reads in English: “Today Kerala and tomorrow…” implying that it would be other states soon. Another message on the video cover image said “Islamization of Kerala Govt.” on top and another message below that said, “Offers ...

Following US President Joe Biden’s administration announcing on Oct. 15, 2021 that a plan to develop large-scale wind farms along nearly the entire coastline of the country by 2025, the old debate that wind turbines lead to death of birds has come under focus again. Soon after the announcement of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland at a wind power industry conference in Boston, several ...

A cover page of TIME magazine featuring PM Narendra Modi’s image with “Delete Fascism” written on it is going viral on social media. It was being shared widely including Hasiba Amin, who claims to be former state president of NSUI (Congress’s student wing) and currently National Convener of Congress. Click the right button. Make the right choice. pic.twitter.com/kjnUSKDsuH — Hasiba ...

A video showing some people raising the pro-Khalistan slogan is going viral on Twitter. They are seen raising slogans such as ‘Khalistan Zindabad’ and also insulting the Indian flag. See the video: आंदोलन कारी फर्जी किसान😡😡😡 pic.twitter.com/qKV3YwJwD1 — Rahul Singh (@Raahulsingh96) October 4, 2021 The message claims that the farmers agitating in Chhattisgarh tore the Indian flag and raised anti-national ...

A Twitter image is going viral with the claim that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected by a forum in Britain as the chief among 53 heads of different countries. 200 साल तक हमे गुलाम बनाने वाले ब्रिटेन मे कल 53 देशों के अध्यक्षो के बीच “ मोदी महा अध्यक्ष ” थे यह दृश्य देखकर हर भारतीय का सीना ...