Social Media Fact-Check

Agra District Magistrate debunks lies that doctors treating coronavirus are forced to wear polythene bags to cover their faces

A message has gone viral on social media which claims that Tourism Ministry has announced closure of all hotels and restaurants till October 15

While the country has come together to fight Chinese coronavirus, a certain section of propagandists are rooting for the government's efforts to fail.

The 'religious ceremony' which Mr Zubair claims was in fact a meeting presided over by the Jain monks to provide food to the needy and destitute in Surat during lockdown

Unlike Tablighi Jamaat in India, ISKCON in UK was not in violation of any government guidelines or order to arrest the spread of Coronavirus

An image of Irish newspaper News Letter was used to create the fake news claiming Maulana Saad donated 1 crore to govt of India

The video was shot in December 2019 during CAA protests when Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were stopped in Meerut.

Fake news peddler Ali Sohrab was in November last year arrested by UP Police over his provocative tweets on Supreme Court judgement of Ram Janmabhoomi verdict

As India fights Wuhan coronavirus, propagandists masquerading as 'journalists' and 'historians' seem to have taken upon themselves to spread misinformation.

Even as Wuhan Coronavirus poses a severe threat to the safety and security of the country, journalists continue to engage in fear mongering and fake news peddling to undermine the efforts being made by the central and state governments.