BJP Bengal distorts video to claim Mamata Banerjee asked voters to choose BJP

The Trinamool Congress said that a complaint has been filed before the Election Commission about this.

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· Apr 25, 2019 · 10:30 am

Fact check: Is that really a picture of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman voting for the BJP?

Under the Air Force Rules, 1969, IAF personnel are not permitted to take part in political activities.

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· Apr 15, 2019 · 10:20 pm

Fact check: Was Priyanka Gandhi really laughing after Kashmir attack?

The Congress leader did not do so, despite the claims of an 11-second clip tweeted by a user followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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· Feb 15, 2019 · 09:35 am

Fact check: Chandrashekhar Azad misquoted by Zee News – he did not threaten to burn India

The Bhim Army chief did not say ‘Bharat jalana jaante hai’ but ‘Bharat chalana jaante hai’ – we know how to run India.

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· Feb 04, 2019 · 12:00 pm

Fact check: No, school children in Kerala did not hoist Islamic flags on Republic Day

The photos are from a 2013 rally of the Indian Union Muslim League, a political party based in Kerala. The flags are the party’s official banner.

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· Jan 28, 2019 · 08:26 pm

Fact check: Did Rahul Gandhi claim Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas of non-violence were inspired by Islam?

The clip that is circulating on social media is a truncated version of a longer video.

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· Jan 15, 2019 · 09:15 am

Fact check: Was Rahul Gandhi really stumped by a teenage girl’s query in Dubai as viral post claims?

The photo of the girl circulating with the story is from a video shot three years ago at an event in Mumbai.

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· Jan 14, 2019 · 12:00 pm

Fact check: Is the photo of Amit Shah standing on a swastika real?

The image, featured on the BJP president’s official Facebook page, was taken on December 1 when he was addressing a crowd in poll-bound Rajasthan.

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· Dec 03, 2018 · 06:32 pm

Deoband’s nail-polish fatwa shows how fake news is manufactured

A fatwa always makes a great story and offers the opportunity to keep India’s focus on religion.

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· Nov 12, 2018 · 12:39 pm

Fact check: Has government recovered Rs 4 lakh crore of bad loans as PM Modi’s app claimed?

Corporate Affairs Secretary Injeti Srinivas said the confusion was the result of the media misquoting him.

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· Apr 23, 2018 · 08:14 pm

The internet never forgets: A reminder after film director Vivek Agnihotri’s complaint to police

The filmmaker and Right-Wing activist accused some Twitter users of ‘using photoshopped screenshots’, which turned out to be images of his deleted tweets.

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· Mar 11, 2018 · 01:01 pm

Virender Sehwag apologises for tweet giving Kerala lynching a communal colour

The attackers belonged to various faiths but Hindutva supporters highlighted the names of only the Muslim members of the mob in their tweets.

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· Feb 25, 2018 · 08:58 am