Social Media Fact-Check

Social Media has empowered the voiceless, yet, it is often the cesspool of fake news. Read before you believe.

As Israel embassy, Community Notes bust fake claims of ‘Hindu Indian man denied entry in Tel Aviv clubs’, watch how vlogger was asked to eat beef in Gaza

The full video by the vlogger Shubham shows he subsequently manages to find entry in some clubs and bars and enjoys the vibrant night life of Tel Aviv.

‘Command’ & ‘Communication’ not same, this is master-slave bus: ECI schools Left-wing propagandist Ravi Nair on the basics of EVM and English language

Responding to ulterior motives of Ravi Nair casting aspersions on EVM cloaked as “logical questions”, the ECI explained factual inaccuracies in his post.

Congress leaders and supporters spread fake ‘Nielsen-Dainik Bhaskar survey’ predicting INDI Alliance win in elections, the newspaper promises legal action

Several I.N.D.I. Alliance supporters continued to peddle the fake survey even after Dainik Bhaskar categorically called it out as fake news.

Election Commission busts fake claim about mismatch between votes polled and counted in EVMs in 2019 polls, appeals to ‘verify before amplification’

The poll body clarified that the claims are false and that the alleged letter, purportedly from the poll body, is itself fake.

AAP supporters share picture of Jagannath Puri’s Rath Yatra to claim massive public support for Arvind Kejriwal following his arrest

The image of the large religious gathering has been circulating in the media and social media for more than a year before Kejriwal's arrest.

Nadeem enters Afzal’s house to molest his daughter, gets beaten by the family: Islamists share video claiming ‘mob lynching of a Muslim’

OpIndia fact-checked this matter to discover that the fight involved two groups of Muslims and no Hindu person was involved in the matter. OpIndia also obtained a copy of an…

Amethi: DM says govt land secured from illegal encroachment, busts false claims that state razed elderly woman’s private property by Mohammed Zubair & his ilk

Countering the misleading claims that the elderly woman's property was built on private land, the district administration clarified that it was government property and only an illegally built wall had…