Media Fact-Check

Chickenpox highlighted as dreaded smallpox: How mainstream media spreads misinformation

Many media outlets recently spread misinformation by calling Chickenpox as Smallpox.

Gujarat: ‘The attack on 2 persons from Nagaland not a hate crime but business rivalry’, says Ahmedabad police, assures strict action

Mainstream media peddled that the people from Nagaland were attacked in Gujarat because they were outsiders. In fact, it was a case of business rivalry.

NYT quotes ‘experts’ to claim Modi govt not doing enough for rail safety, despite admitting that safety has improved: Here are facts they missed

New York Times admited railways safety has improved under Modi govt, then went on to claim not enough is being spent on safety

TOI journalist lies about Parbhani lynching: From ‘victims not Sikhs’ to ‘alarm about thieves not coming from a mosque’. What victim’s relative told OpIndia

Sikkalkari Sikhs are the Sikh artisans who had migrated from Punjab to Nanded in the state of Maharashtra during the period of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji. At present, many…

AltNews’ Zubair and his lackey share cropped video to claim BJP TN Chief Annamalai claimed credit for CSK’s IPL win when he was countering DMK doing the same

Mohammed Zubair of AltNews yet again shared a cropped video of BJP leader K Annamalai to mock him and deflect attention from DMK

Media, Rana Ayyub spread propaganda against Hindus: How Imran hitting Hindu LPG delivery man with chappal was turned into a case of ‘Islamophobia’

Rana Ayyud, HindutvaWatch and others indulge in anti-Hindu propaganda to whitewash Imran's assault on Hindu devotee Gurrala Lingam ‘Swami’ with chappal

While police arrest mastermind Arbaaz Khan, read how TheWire blatantly lied just to blame Hindus for the Akola violence created by a Muslim mob

The Wire blamed Hindus for the death of Vilas Gaikwad during Akola violence. Identified him as auto-rikshaw driver while he was working as electrician for 20 years.

‘Journalists’, media and SM users spread fake news about wrestlers writing a letter to Amit Shah, get fact-checked by the wrestlers themselves: Full details

A copy of a letter claimed to be written by Bajrang Punia to HM Amit Shah on behalf of the protesting wrestlers has gone viral on social media

Maharashtra: 15-year-old Ghulam Mohammed found hanging in Beed, police dismiss communal angle as alleged by Islamists online

SP of the Beed district said, "The police will initiate action against anyone spreading rumours about the incident and giving it a communal colour."