Tag Archives: fact check

As the cyclone Asani hit the coast of Andhra Pradesh on May 10, 2022, a viral video about a “golden chariot (‘सोने का रथ’)” washed ashore at Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh has caught the attention of many. Almost all the news outlets have covered the news and TV channels have shown how local people were trying to drag it from ...

A viral video of US President Joe Biden has gone viral on Twitter and WhatsApp showing him as if about to shake hands with someone. The viral video, showing only 30 seconds of a 40-minute speech by Biden, focuses on his finishing the speech and turning to his right with his hand extended. However, the claim by Washington Free Beacon, ...

As the state assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are going on in phases, the Samajwadi Party has been facing false allegations and several videos have been released on social media with false claims. In this context, a video of a woman holding several Voting Identity cards has been going viral with a claim that the burqa-clad women are caught red-handed ...

A 45-second video clip is circulating on social media with the claim that it shows an Indian satellite colliding with the International Space Station and that an American astronaut Michael Collins died in the mishap. It was shared on Twitter here. FACT CHECK An image search with key frames of the video showed that it was part of a longer 3D video ...

Here is a video going viral claiming that a man on a helicopter is rescuing a bird tangled in a power line and it was shared with a claim that this unusual daring act was performed by a soldier of the Indian Army. When we received the request for fact checking it, we first searched with a frame cut on ...

Recently, a video claiming to be Aryan and taken while he was in an inebriated state at the airport and urinating in the open at queue is going viral on WhatsApp. It is followed by another image that has the wording “CONFIRMED” stamp with a logo of ALT News, a fact checking organization. The claim states: “Shah Rukh Khan’s son ...

An image of a green streak of light in the night sky is being shared on WhatsApp and other social media platforms with the claim that it is an asteroid that flew-by the earth just missing to hit our planet. The message further claimed that “This is that asteroid that just missed earth about a day ago, in the skies ...

When India’s Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat’s chopper crashed in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu on Dec. 8, 2021, several videos began to surface on social media. Essentially there were three videos which were shared widely on WhatsApp and Twitter. Here they are: CDS Bipin Rawat Indian military chief, 12 others killed in helicopter crash pic.twitter.com/kgk4eJGnQK — अनिकेत सिंह (@singhaniketbjp) ...

The upcoming Noida International Airport was coined as Asia’s “biggest” airport by several Union ministers when PM Narendra Modi inaugurated it on November 25, 2021. In all the images, the model of an upcoming airport was widely used without any accreditation. Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia told media that the upcoming airport in Jewar, Uttar Pradesh, will be ...

A short video clip is going viral on social media in which AAP chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal says:“Our family was of the Jan Sangh Parivar. We are born ‘BJPwallah’. My father was in Jan Sangh. He went to jail during the emergency.” “हमारा जनसंग का परिवार है , पैदाइशी भाजपा वाले है हम” – संघी केजरीवाल @LambaAlkapic.twitter.com/4eu2otSxk2 ...