Social Media Fact-Check

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

Social Media Fact-Check

Fact check: Fake tweet attributed to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Rupee vs Dollar debate goes viral

OpIndia Staff -
The satirical tweet took potshots at Nirmala Sitharaman based on another misleading claim attributed to her about rising onion prices.
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AltNews cofounder calls ‘Trishul Deeksha’ ceremony of Bajrang Dal as ‘arms training camp’, joins Islamists in fearmongering

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Mohammed Zubair went on to retweet Islamists like Irena Akbar who called the Trishul Deeksha ceremony a terrorist training camp.
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WaPo columnist and donation fraud accused Rana Ayyub dog-whistles using OpIndia report on cattle smugglers, ends up spreading misinformation

OpIndia Staff -
Rana Ayyub used an OpIndia report about cow smugglers and implied that they have been shot dead, which was not true.
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Serial fake news peddler CJ Werleman shares another fake news claiming that ‘Hindutva extremists’ thrashed a Muslim man

OpIndia Staff -
Sharing an edited video of a Muslim man thrashed in Delhi for molesting a minor girl, Werleman claimed that Hindu extremist mob assaulted him
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Statue of MK Gandhi fitted with laser eyes in the US? Here is the truth behind the viral image

OpIndia Staff -
The image was originally posted on Reddit 3 years ago in August 2019 by a user named 'VickyOneTime.'
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Fact check: Old image of Home Minister Amit Shah with IAS Pooja Singhal shared as recent one, details

OpIndia Staff -
The usual troupe of fake news peddlers on social media tried to pass off an old picture of Amit Shah with the civil servant as a recent image.
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Did Vietnamese youths build a replica Bugatti Chiron car using clay as claimed in viral video: A fact-check

Raju Das -
Fake claim circulated that youths built a Bugatti Chiron car using clay, which was made using fibreglass and steel with the help of clay model
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Robert Vadra’s brother in law Tehseen Poonawalla lies about the woman who was partying with Rahul Gandhi in a pub in Nepal

OpIndia Staff -
Tehseen Poonawalla falsely claims that woman seen with Rahul Gandhi in a pub in Nepal is singer Sarasowti Khatri
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Congress leader, journalists and trolls share misleading videos to claim that Muslim man was knocked down on road due to his religion

OpIndia Staff -
Sharing video of a biker crashing into another biker, Congress leader claimed it was done because the victim is Muslim
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‘No one attacks Masjid, it was to save Hindus’: VHP & Bajrang Dal refute claims of Hindus making human chain to save Mosque in...

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VHP, Bajrang Dal refuted claims that they formed human chain to save mosque. They said it was formed to save Hindus.
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