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Maharashtra teenager Diksha Shinde’s claims were false, ANI withdraws story after NASA said she used fake credentials

Maharashtra teenager Diksha Shinde has claimed she has been selected in the NASA MSI programme, but her claims do not add up

‘Fact-checkers’ get to work to whitewash Taliban as the Islamist organisation with not so great human rights record takes over Afghanistan

And as if being apologists for homegrown Islamists was not enough, the so-called fact-checkers have now gone international to clean up after the Taliban.

New York Times lies about Indian govt’s visa policy towards Afghan nationals, makes false claims of religious criteria

Despite India officially stating that it has decided to grant emergency Visas to the Afghan nationals, the New York Times continues to peddle lies about the Indian government to claim that the Modi government is using a religion as a criteria to bring Afghans

Pakistani ‘Human Rights Minister’ celebrates fake news that Afghan vice president fled Kabul, taunts him for ‘not getting rescued by India’

Office of Afghan vice president Amrullah Saleh said that fake news of him fleeing Kabul is propaganda by Pakistan

Saket Gokhale spreads fake news as one last hurrah as Congress fan before joining TMC: Read details

While the question was about wastage due to lack of storage facilities, Gokhale claimed in his tweet that the govt is lying, based on a report regarding total wastage.

Switzerland embassy fact-checks Chinese media story on Covid origins, says the ‘Swiss scientist’ they had quoted does not exist

Chinese State media outlets, including the Global Times, the People’s Daily, had carried articles with comments from one Wilson Edwards, on the origins of Covid-19 and the WHO's independence.

TMC Vice President Yashwant Sinha shares morphed image of Olympic Silver Medalist Mirabai Chanu to defame PM Modi

Despite being corrected, Yashwant Sinha has not bothered to apologise for spreading fake news to malign PM Modi.

Fact-check: Did PM Modi not speak to Olympic bronze medal winner Bajrang Punia because he supported ‘farmer protest’

Propagandists tried to spread fake news that PM Modi has not spoken to Olympian medallist Bajrang Punia because he had supported the so-called farmer agitation.

Fact Check: Where is this Rajnikant Medical College of Engineering for Commerce & Arts?

The image was also shared by businesswoman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, who owns a multi-million bio-pharma company.

Thailand bans distribution of ‘fake news’ undermining its handling of Covid-19 pandemic, Thai media protests, says it curbs ‘media freedom’

Six media outlets in Thailand have come out against govt's decision to ban 'fake news', calling it an infringement on freedom of expression

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