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Media Fact-Check

‘Historian’ Ram Guha gets it wrong, attempts to carry out ‘surgical strike’ on our intellect

OpIndia Staff -
Guha seems to have graduated from distorting history to creating facts
Media

Fake news channel NDTV hires fake news peddler Dhruv Rathee, to bust fake news this election

Sanghamitra -
Perhaps the union of Dhruv Rathee and NDTV is destiny after all, like a river eventually merging with the sea, individual fake news peddlers probably have to merge one day with the ocean of lies and fake news that is NDTV.
News Reports

Election Commission busts media propaganda: Malfunctioning EVM in Goa mock poll was favouring Congress, not BJP

OpIndia Staff -
According to the story, in a mock poll ahead of the actual elections in Goa, the BJP had received 17 votes through the EVM machine instead of its allotted 9.
News Reports

BSE files a formal complaint against propagandist Kunal Kamra for unauthorised modification and misuse of their brand

OpIndia Staff -
Kunal Kamra had posted a morphed image of BSE woth its ticker reading ‘Don’t vote for Modi’
Media Fact-Check

Tripura CM Biplab Deb’s wife denies reports that she has accused her husband of domestic violence, calls them highly paid dirty rumours

OpIndia Staff -
Biplab Deb's wife Niti Deb says that dirty rumours are being spread to gain political advantage against influential people
Social Media

Gujarat Congress’ official Twitter handle uses an image from Congress era to criticise Modi govt’s Ganga cleaning project

OpIndia Staff -
Using fake images and older images to spread their malicious propaganda is something the Congress has been doing repeatedly.
Fact-Check

Fact-Check: Does RSS really want the BJP to remove Sadhvi Pragya as its candidate from Bhopal?

OpIndia Staff -
A day after RSS had clarified that the letter purportedly written by an RSS leader is fake, a website publishes the same
Fact-Check

Congress Sevadal makes sexist comment against Smriti Irani with a fake image, deletes tweet after getting called out

OpIndia Staff -
Congress Sevadal posted a fake image of a TV News clip to launch a sexist attack on Smriti Irani
Fact-Check

The Print publishes a bogus and statistically inaccurate ‘research’ to claim retweeting PM Modi increases chances to get LS ticket

Azaad -
Titled “Retweeting Modi increases BJP MPs’ chances of getting a Lok Sabha ticket: Study,” The Print article was written by Barbara De Alfaro, a student of political science at UC Berkeley
Fact-Check

Indian Express journalist caught spreading fake news claiming ‘All votes going to Lotus’

OpIndia Staff -
Journalist helps spread a rumor that booth number 151 in Kovalam, Kerala was taking votes only for 'Lotus'.
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