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News Reports

‘Nobel nominated fact-checker’ Md Zubair spreads fake news that Raghuram Rajan didn’t propose Islamic banking in India, uses a different unrelated report

Raju Das - 15 December, 2022

Md Zubair of Alt News deliberately uses different report on similar subject to make false claim that Raghuram Rajan didn't propose Islamic Banking in India

Media Fact-Check

Did BJP MLA threaten Muslims with no development if they don’t vote for him? AltNews’ Zubair spreads lies, Muslims say ‘ready to fact check...

OpIndia Staff - 14 December, 2022

On the 13th of December, AltNews' out-on-bail fact-checker, who fancied himself as winning the Nobel prize (which also turned out to be fake news) shared a video of Karnataka BJP MLA Preetam Gowda.

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Videos of Indian Army personnel thrashing Chinese PLA go viral on Twitter: Are they from December 9 Indo-China face-off?

OpIndia Staff - 13 December, 2022

Several videos of Indian Army personnel thrashing Chinese PLA troops in Tawang region have gone viral on Twitter.

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Twitter Files 5: Bari Weiss uses a misleading NYT report to make false claims about Modi govt’s warning to Twitter to follow Indian law

Anurag - 13 December, 2022

Journalist Bari Weiss while sharing Twitter Files makes false claims about PM Modi and IT laws in India, uses a misleading NYT report.

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Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR blames ‘Hindutva’ and ‘Islamophobia’ in India after a Muslim mob beats up a Muslim couple for watching Kantara

OpIndia Staff - 10 December, 2022

Ibrahim Hopper implied in his tweet that the Muslim couple was beaten by Hindus while in reality it was a mob of Muslims that attacked the couple for watching the Kannada film Kantara.

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AAP workers share doctored video to claim people chanted the name of Arvind Kejriwal during PM Modi’s rally: Here is the truth

OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2022

In the original video, it could be clearly heard that the spectators were chanting the name of PM Modi in unison and not that of Arvind Kejriwal.

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Can you get jailed for staring woman for 14 seconds or more? NGO posts misleading tweet

Anurag - 27 November, 2022

While woman can file case against men for inappropriate staring that makes them comfortable, there is no 14 second limit as claimed by NGO NCIB

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Audrey Truschke repeats lie debunked in court, says belly of pregnant Muslim woman was cut during Gujarat riots: Here are the facts

Raju Das - 26 November, 2022

Audrey Truschke repeats familiar lies about Gujarat riots that Islamists and left-liberals kept repeating, despite being proven false in courts

Social Media

As Zakir Naik arrives in Qatar to spread Islam during the FIFA World Cup, a 2016 video of him converting people goes viral

OpIndia Staff - 21 November, 2022

Zakir Naik has on multiple occasions coerced his non-Muslim audience members to convert to Islam after responding to their queries about the religion.

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