Social Media Fact-Check

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

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Samajwadi Party leader spreads fake news days after it was already debunked

OpIndia Staff -
While sharing only a short clip of the incident, IP Singh made the same fake claims as his boss Akhilesh Yadav.
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Fact-check: Claims about Muslim mob thrashing policemen in a viral video false, old video circulated with fake claims

OpIndia Staff -
The viral video is from March 2021 when a team of Haryana police were thrashed by locals in a village in Rajasthan after their vehicle had hit one of the villagers.
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Fact Check: Viral message claims Cadbury Chocolates contain beef, company says its products in India are vegetarian

OpIndia Staff -
Cadbury India says viral message claiming its products contain beef is not related to India, says all its products in India are vegetarian
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UP convicted murder’s photo circulated to claim ‘inhuman treatment’ to dead ‘Urban Naxal’ Stan Swamy

OpIndia Staff -
The photograph of a convicted murderer from Etah, UP is being circulated to claim 'inhuman treatment' to Stan Swamy.
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Fact-Check: Viral ‘news clip’ claiming Aamir Khan & Barkha Dutt seeing each other is not related to actor’s latest divorce

OpIndia Staff -
A news clip has gone viral with claims that Barkha Dutt and Aamir Khan are in a romantic relationship and that could have been reason behind his divorce with Kiran Rao
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Fact Check: No, Gujarat police did not nab Delhi riots accused from an eatery in Bharuch as seen in viral CCTV video

OpIndia Staff -
Footage of Gujarat nabbing criminal in Patan shared on social media claiming it to be arrest of Delhi riots accused Siraj Mohammed Anwar
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Prashant Bhushan continues propaganda against Covid vaccines, shares misleading report to claim death rate is more among vaccinated people

OpIndia Staff -
Prashant Bhushan shared a report that used selective data from UK health report to make misleading claim on death rate in vaccinated people
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Dhruv Rathee fans mark YouTuber Karolina Goswami for targeted harassment after she exposed his lies

OpIndia Staff -
After Karolina Goswami pointed out the factual errors and mistakes in the Dhruv Rathee video, Rathee's supporters have been harassing and abusing Goswami.
Social Media Fact-Check

How Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair communalised a petty quarrel and tried to defame ‘Jai Shri Ram’

OpIndia Staff -
It must be pointed out that the video of the assault does not contain any audio, which can verify the claim that Saifi was coerced into chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' or 'Ram Ram'
Social Media Fact-Check

Former Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar shares Photoshopped image to attack PM Modi, actively tries to hide real pic

OpIndia Staff -
In fact, the image shared by Sircar has been in circulation since 2015 and has been made viral with claims that the lady in the image is Preeti Adani, wife of Gautam Adani.
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