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Yearly Archives: 2021

Weekly Wrap: A Look At The Different Political & COVID-19 Related Claims Viral In India

Read the top misleading and false news of the week in five minutes.

2019 Video From Manipur Shared As Mamata Banerjee’s Supporters Storming Polling Booth In Cooch Behar

Video is in fact from Inner Manipur’s polling station 6/10 Kyamgei Muslim Makha Leikai during India’s 2019 General Elections.

2019 Video Of Alleged Vote Rigging Shared Amid Ongoing West Bengal’s Legislative Assembly Elections

Keya Ghosh’s recent tweet with a video showing alleged vote rigging during West Bengal’s ongoing State Assembly Elections is misleading. The video in context is online since the 2019 General Elections in India.

Whatsapp Video Falsely Claims Scientists At University of Queensland Have Proven Bananas Prevent Coronavirus

Whatsapp video falsely represents work being done by scientists at the University of Queensland, Australia claiming bananas prevent coronavirus.

2019 Image Of Arvind Kejriwal Putting Mask On A Young Boy Shared Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

An old image of Delhi’s CM Arvind Kejriwal and his Deputy Manish Sisodia falsely shared amid ongoing pandemic to imply that their flouting COVID-19 appropriate norms.

Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Falsely Claims No COVID In Assam, So “Why Create Unnecessary Panic?”

Assam’s health minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma’s claim that the state has no COVID-19 active cases is misleading.

Fake Election Poll Survey Images Show AITC Losing In Bengal’s Nandigram District

Images of a survey showing BJP’s win in the second phase of West Bengal’s state elections are fake. I-PAC and the AITC party have denied these claims.

Alleged Audio Clip By Dr Trehan From Medanta Hospitals Is Fake

Whatsapp message related to COVID-19 pandemic along with an audio clip attributed to Dr Trehan from Medanta Hospitals is false. The hospital chain has clarified the same on their official Twitter and Facebook page.

Trinidad Couple’s Video At Gym Shared As ‘Bilal Ahmed Khan Luring Hindu Women’ On Social Media

At least a three-year-old video of a couple training at a gym in Trinidad was shared with a false ‘love-jihad’ attribution by several social media users.

Arvind Kejriwal’s 2014 Clip From Confederation Of Indian Industry’s Meeting Shared In Context of New Farm Bills

BJP MLA Tajinder Bagga and other Twitter users shared a 2014 video clip of Arvind Kejriwal from the sixth CII meeting and excluded context.

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