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Media Fact-Check

Habitual fake-news peddler Saba Naqvi shares old video of Hindu devotees visiting temples to shield Tablighi Jamaat super-spreaders

OpIndia Staff -
Habitual fake news peddler Saba Naqvi shared an old video to assert that Hindu devotees breached the lockdown restrictions
Media

Rahul Kanwal uploads the Tablighi Jamaat infographic with somewhat correct numbers and a picture​ that looks “less Muslim”

OpIndia Staff -
Rahul Kanwal proved suspicions true that one of the reasons for Tablighi Jamaat graphic to be deleted was depiction of a skull cap-wearing man
News Reports

India Today’s Rahul Kanwal deletes infographic on Tablighi Jamaat: A saga of ‘being apologetic about Islamism’ and wildly incorrect data

OpIndia Staff -
The infographic prepared by India Today Data Intelligence Unit had of a skullcap, a mask, and two pie diagrams making up a face
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This WSJ columnist thinks that deeply religious Muslims can’t be molesters or rapists

OpIndia Staff -
Doing everything he possibly can to prove that members of Tablighi Jamaat were innocent, was WSJ columnist Sadanand Dhume.
Media

Ummah above gender: The Wire journalist refuses to believe nurses’ complaint about Tablighi Jamaatis harassing them

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire editor Arfa Khanum Sherwani has declared Tablighi Jamaatis innocent and indulges in Muslim victim-mongering, accusing nurses of lying
Media

Congress linked ‘Real Report’ claims ‘thousands of devotees’ defied lockdown on Ram Navami using old image, deletes tweet later and backtracks

OpIndia Staff -
Real Report, a 'news platform' linked closely to the Congress party, posted a tweet on Thursday claiming that 'thousands' of devotees had gathered across temples in West Bengal on the occasion of Ram Navami.
Media

Former senior executive editor of Kapil Sibal’s Tiranga TV spreads crazy conspiracy theory to shield Tablighi Jamaat

OpIndia Staff -
Seemi Pasha said on Twitter that it 'feels' like the governments were scapegoating Tablighi Jamaat to "release data about positive cases that it had been holding back".
Fact-Check

No, India is not accepting ‘foreign aid’ to fight Coronavirus pandemic: Debunking misinformation​ spread​ by Suhasini Haider and Shashi Tharoor

OpIndia Staff -
No sooner was the PM CARES fund launched, did conspiracy theories and blatant lies started filling the internet, especially, Twitter.
Media

Coronavirus reporting: A section of the media appears to be infected with the ​virus of misinformation and propaganda

Priyanka Deo -
Today, the world is affected by the coronavirus pandemic. And today, the means used to consume news are vastly different than college.
Media Fact-Check

To whitewash Tablighi Jamaat’s deeds, Founder-Editor of The Wire spreads fake news about Yogi Adityanath

OpIndia Staff -
The Wire's report has very explicitly attributed the fake quote to Yogi Adityanath.
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