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Shashi Tharoor presents photograph of Nehru in Soviet Russia as image from USA to downplay success of Howdy Modi

OpIndia Staff - 24 September, 2019

The photograph tweeted by Shashi Tharoor to belittle the 'Howdy Modi' event is not from the USA, neither this is from the year 1954. The image is from Moscow in USSR, and it is from 1955.

Fact-Check

No, PM Modi didn’t really try to interfere in US elections, here is why he said “Abki baar Trump sarkar”

OpIndia Staff - 23 September, 2019

Congress leaders and other media houses scrambled together to spread lies that PM Modi endorsed President Trump for the 2020 US Presidential elections.

News Reports

Twitter shuts down thousands of fake news accounts across the world

OpIndia Staff - 20 September, 2019

Twitter has suspended 4,258 accounts which employed fake names tweeting mostly about Yemen and Qatar.

Social Media

Pakistan’s fake news gang busted, Twitter suspends 50 fake handles impersonating top Indian Army personnel

OpIndia Staff - 18 September, 2019

These accounts were created in the name of senior Army officers including Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat and Northern Army Commander Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh to peddle Pakistan's manufactured lies about Kashmir.

Media

Tulsi Gabbard punctures fake news spread by ‘journalist’ Rana Ayyub and others about Howdy Modi event

OpIndia Staff - 18 September, 2019

The US Presidential candidate for 2020, Tulsi Gabbard, today took to Twitter to call out the lies being spread by a shady organisation 'Organisation for minorities in India (OFMI)'

Political Fact-Check

Malala Yousafzai spreads fake news, claims girl from Kashmir missed her exams on August 12 which was an Eid holiday

OpIndia Staff - 15 September, 2019

According to Malala, one of the three girls from Kashmir missed her exams on August 12. However, August 12 is a notified holiday declared across the country by Government of India on the occasion of Bakr Id or Eid ul-Adha.

News Reports