Digit Eye Fact Checker of News & Social Media

Just a few days after making sensitive comments about Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli, acclaimed actor Naseeruddin Shah has once again triggered another controversy for his alleged comments against the living conditions in India. It all began after a news article published in Dainik Bharat claiming that Naseeruddin has called India a “pathetic and dangerous” country to live in. ...

The latest victim of fake news is actor Shah Rukh Khan’s film “Zero” that received negative and fake reviews on social media before its release. Some quoted Censor Board members to make their fake reviews sound authentic. The tirade started with a guessing game on the number of screens the film “Zero” will be released on December 21 and it ...

A video that shows a woman, with her infant child pleading the public to search for her lost husband has recently gone viral on social media platforms like Facebook. In the video, the woman says that her husband has left her after making her pregnant, and stories based on this video got published in many online news portals. “I am ...

Take a look at this pic pls.. pic.twitter.com/VALwWvziI5 — Harsha BM (@Harshagautam) December 12, 2018 On Thursday, December 13, Bengaluru was choc-a-block with vehicles and many were taken aback at the unusual traffic overflow on the roads. Later, on WhatsApp a message started making rounds that Bengaluru’s Namma Metro Pillar 155 at Trinity circle was damaged and the Metro services had been stopped ...

Indian National Congress supporters in social media have been sharing a series of posts in the past couple of days which state that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called Sonia Gandhi the widow of Congress. The full version of Narendra Modi’s Jaipur speech is now uploaded on the prime minister’s official YouTube channel, and the alleged remarks start at the ...

A few weeks ago, a Facebook page named ‘Amethi Rae Bareli ki Kahani’ shared a video that shows Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath claiming that he is actually a God. The video uploaded by the Facebook page soon went viral, and it has already racked up more than 96,000 views and 5,878 shares as of now. Many people who ...

The Congress Party has made a video on the occasion of its leader and mentor Sonia Gandhi’s birthday on December 9. It was widely shared on Facebook by the party’s Social media head Divya Spandana or Ramya, as she is popularly known among Kannadigas. See the video here: The video claims several sacrifices made by Congress leaders and mentions Indira ...

The following image put out by @BJPalindia that vows to reinvent a strategy to save Narendra Modi from Rahul Gandhi. It has brought forward the so-called defeat in the hands of Gandhi-Nehru family members by historic figures in the past and vouches to save Modi from them now. See the picture here: https://www.facebook.com/Bjpalindia/posts/1780293278705962 It reads: “Because of Nehru, Sardar had lost ...

Rajinikanth’s new movie ‘2.0’ directed by Shankar hit the theaters all across the globe on November 29, 2018, and it has already been declared a mega-hit by industry experts. In the movie, director Shankar reveals that the electromagnetic field radiation emitted by mobile towers is responsible for millions of bird deaths. Adding heat to the claims made in the movie, ...

Just five days before the elections for Telangana Assembly are to be held, a fake image has started appearing in social media targeted at Telangana voters. Based on a fake BBC website survey, it showed the Telugu Desam Party as the fourth most corrupt party in the world. A tweet by @TweetsBrock was among the first to push out this tweet ...