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Fact Check: Viral video claiming ‘Bangalore Muslims boycotting Hindus’ is from 2019 in Rajasthan’s Barmer
Old video from Rajasthan goes viral claiming that Muslims in Bangalore are boycotting Hindus
Uttar Pradesh: Journalist Kashif Arsalaan claims police prohibited Bakrid Namaz in Muzaffarnagar, police clarify calling it a baseless allegation
Like every year, Bakrid in India is witnessing controversy around Muslims imposing their cruel customs on innocent neighbourhoods. Muslim journalists have also started claiming troubles to Muslims celebrating their festival of slaughtering an innocent goat.
7 days after Faizan got arrested in the Muskan suicide case, BBC Hindi is yet to retract their report that blamed her former Hindu...
Seven days on, it was pointed out on social media today that the BBC was still running the fake news. Soon after, it deleted the news.
Congress repeats Rafale lies: Here is how the party is using baseless claims and debunked falsehoods to derail drone deal with the US
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Congress leader Pawan Khera made several baseless claims targeting the recently announced MQ-9B drone deal with the US govt
Propagandist and serial fake news spreader, Meer Faisal, shares video spreading communal hate against Hindus, Kota police said video 3 years old
Propaganda journalist Meer Faisal promoted three-year-old video to propagate anti-Hindu sentiments and paint Muslims as victims
Fake screenshot of Dainik Bhaskar circulated by AAP worker claims Brahmins support Manusmiriti laws, Hindi daily debunks false claims
After the screenshot went viral on social media, Dainik Bhaskar called out the forgery. In a report, Bhaskar slammed the fake screenshot being circulated in their name and stated that they never published any such report.
‘Appalled at propaganda: Lord Jagannath Temple Secretary debunks allegations of discrimination against President Murmu. Here is what he told OpIndia
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Ravinder Nath Pradhan, Secretary, Sree Neelachala Seva Sangha, Jagannath Temple, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, debunked the allegations of discrimination against President Droupadi Murmu
TMC’s Saket Gokhale spreads fake news by claiming that MQ-9B drone deal is overpriced, ‘challenges’ govt to say reports are wrong hours after govt...
PIBFactCheck calls out TMC Spokesperson Saket Gokhale for spreading misleading information on MQ9B drones purchase.
Congress’ Supriya Shrinate spreads fake news, attributes false quotes about PM Modi to White House spokesperson John Kirby
Netizens mocked Shrinate for spreading fake news by putting false quotes in the name of Kirby. They highlighted that the quotes used by Shrinate was a paragraph from a Reuters report and not at all what Kirby said.
The claim of missing ₹500 notes: Exclusive details of how data from documents obtained under RTI was misinterpreted and ignored to make an explosive...
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The Free Press Journal claim that 1760.65 million pieces of ₹500 notes supplied by presses in 2016-17 is wrong, based on misinterpretation of data
