FACT CHECK: Misleading video sparks false claims amidst communal tensions | Here's the truth
10 months, 1 week ago

FACT CHECK: Misleading video sparks false claims amidst communal tensions | Here's the truth

India TV News  

A video circulating on social media, depicting a confrontation between a mob and a police officer, has been falsely attributed to Haldwani, Uttarakhand. The misleading dissemination of the video coincided with recent communal tensions in Uttarakhand's Haldwani region, stemming from a contentious anti-encroachment operation targeting an 'unauthorised' madrasa and mosque, resulting in tragic fatalities and injuries. Fact-Check reveals origin of video India TV's Fact Check team traced the origins of the viral video to Damoh, Madhya Pradesh, debunking false claims circulating on social media platforms. Image Source : INDIA TVIndia TV's Fact Check team traced the origins of the viral video to Damoh. Police response and investigations underway In the aftermath of the Damoh incident, Police Officer Anand Singh Thakur intervened to prevent inflammatory speeches, as captured in the video.

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Fact Check: Clipped Video Falsely Claims Anti-Hindu Remarks
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Fact Check: Clipped Video Falsely Claims Anti-Hindu Remarks

Deccan Chronicle  

A video going viral on social media claims to show Mulayam Singh Yadav making anti-Hindu statements in Parliament. When Virendra Singh of the BJP interrupted, objecting to the accusation, Mulayam Singh Yadav responded by saying, “I said so because our party is branded as a party of criminals. The video’s caption indicated that it featured Mulayam Singh Yadav’s speech on …

Fact Check: Old video from anti-CAA protests FALSELY shared as Sambhal unrest
4 weeks ago

Fact Check: Old video from anti-CAA protests FALSELY shared as Sambhal unrest

India Today  

Protests against a mosque survey in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district turned violent on November 24. A video now going viral allegedly shows the Sambhal police lathi-charging protestors. OUR PROBE A reverse image search of keyframes from the viral clip led us to the same video published by a YouTube channel in March 2020, making it clear that it is not …

Fact check: Communal twist FALSELY added to video of villagers beating up cops in Bihar
1 month, 1 week ago

Fact check: Communal twist FALSELY added to video of villagers beating up cops in Bihar

India Today  

A video reportedly from Bihar’s Motihari district showing a group of people beating a police squad with batons has gone viral. In Motihari, Bihar, the group of peaceful Molla community attacked the police team that had gone to arrest the kidnapping accused. India Today Fact Check found that while the video is from Bihar’s Motihari, the people who attacked the …

Fact Check: Video of girl's murder in middle of street going viral with false claims, know truth
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Fact Check: Video of girl's murder in middle of street going viral with false claims, know truth

India TV News  

India TV Fact Check: A video is going viral on social media showing a young man standing next to a young woman's corpse. This disturbing video is being shared with the communal claim that a Muslim man named Salim murdered a Hindu girl named Aarti. We found several news reports mentioning the broad daylight murder, stating that the accused, Rohit, …

4 held for allegedly circulating old video with fake information on elections
7 months ago

4 held for allegedly circulating old video with fake information on elections

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana police arrested four persons for allegedly circulating old video with fake information on election process and making it viral. The complainant was browsing social media platforms - Twitter and Facebook as a part of social media surveillance, and came across a video in which one person in a polling station was voting multiple times and saying that …

Fact Check: 2019 Video That Falsely Claimed ‘Proxy Voting By Indian Army’ For BJP Resurfaces As Recent
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Fact Check: 2019 Video That Falsely Claimed ‘Proxy Voting By Indian Army’ For BJP Resurfaces As Recent

ABP News  

Fact Check: An X user shared a video of some people confronting uniformed men, accusing them of indulging in proxy voting in favour of the BJP. The user claimed that the Indian Army men were “caught red-handed inside election booth for influencing voters to cast fake votes for BJP” during the third phase of the ongoing 2024 Lok Sabha elections. …

Delhi Police seek info from social media platforms on source of doctored video of Shah
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Delhi Police seek info from social media platforms on source of doctored video of Shah

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Delhi Police has written to X and other social media platforms seeking information about the source of a doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah that was shared online, sources said on Monday.The Special Cell of the Delhi Police had on Sunday registered an FIR after the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre, which is under the Ministry of …

India slams US report on ‘rights issue’ in Manipur, BBC raids: ‘Deeply biased, reflects very poor understanding’
7 months, 3 weeks ago

India slams US report on ‘rights issue’ in Manipur, BBC raids: ‘Deeply biased, reflects very poor understanding’

Live Mint  

India has slammed a report by the US State Department citing alleged incidents of human rights violations, including in Manipur, as "deeply biased," adding “it reflects a poor understanding of India." External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at his weekly media briefing that the report was deeply biased, adding "We attach no value to it and urge you to …

FACT CHECK: Misleading video misattributed to UK's Bradford sparks controversy | Here's the truth
9 months, 1 week ago

FACT CHECK: Misleading video misattributed to UK's Bradford sparks controversy | Here's the truth

India TV News  

A video circulating on social media platforms, falsely claiming to depict a crowded market scene in Bradford, United Kingdom, has ignited controversy and raised concerns about the spread of misinformation. Image Source : INDIA TVScreenshot of a video falsely claiming to depict a crowded market scene in Bradford, United Kingdom. Fact check reveals truth India TV's Fact Check team conducted …

NBDSA takes action against three TV news channels for violating guidelines on communal issues
9 months, 3 weeks ago

NBDSA takes action against three TV news channels for violating guidelines on communal issues

The Hindu  

March 02, 2024 04:38 am | Updated 04:38 am IST - NEW DELHI The News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority has directed three TV news channels to remove videos of certain programmes on communal issues as they violated the Code of Ethics and other guidelines. With respect to a programme broadcast by Times Now Navbharat on May 31, 2023, the …

Uttarakhand police accuse NGO of funding Haldwani violence, warns benefactors
10 months ago

Uttarakhand police accuse NGO of funding Haldwani violence, warns benefactors

Hindustan Times  

Haldwani: The Uttarakhand police have identified an NGO which allegedly collected funds for the violence in Haldwani's Banbhoolpura areas earlier this month. Information related to the NGO's account number, registration number, PAN number has also been given to the Income Tax Department and other agencies, by which necessary action is being taken," the police said in a statement. The police …

FACT CHECK: Old videos falsely linked to farmers' protest alcohol distribution | Here's the truth
10 months ago

FACT CHECK: Old videos falsely linked to farmers' protest alcohol distribution | Here's the truth

India TV News  

As the ongoing Delhi Chalo farmers' protests continue to draw attention, several old and unrelated videos are being circulated online, falsely claiming to depict alcohol distribution among protesting farmers. Misleading video origins revealed India TV's Fact Check team uncovered the truth behind these viral videos, tracing them back to unrelated events. The footage purportedly showing alcohol distribution stemmed from the …

FACT CHECK: Haldwani eviction plea video misinterpreted as recent amidst current unrest | DETAILS
10 months, 1 week ago

FACT CHECK: Haldwani eviction plea video misinterpreted as recent amidst current unrest | DETAILS

India TV News  

A video circulating online, depicting a young girl pleading not to be evicted from her home in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, is misleadingly portrayed as recent. The India TV Fact Check team discovered that the video is from January 2023 and is unrelated to the recent violence in the region. Image Source : INDIA TVA screenshot of a video circulating online, depicts …

Fact Check: Old Videos From Hyderabad, UP Passed Off As Clips Related To Mira Road Clash
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Fact Check: Old Videos From Hyderabad, UP Passed Off As Clips Related To Mira Road Clash

ABP News  

The Verdict The two viral videos are from 2022 and show police action in Hyderabad and Uttar Pradesh, respectively. The first video of police apprehending men is from Hyderabad, dated August 2022, where police detained people protesting against BJP MLA T Raja Singh over his remarks against Prophet Mohammed. A reverse image search of the video's screenshot directed us to …

Recognising a fact-checker
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Recognising a fact-checker

The Hindu  

ATirukural couplet effectively teaches us how to deal with misinformation and disinformation. By conferring the Kottai Ameer Communal Harmony Award for the year 2024 on Mohammed Zubair, fact-checker and the co-founder of AltNews, during the 75th Republic Day celebrations, the Tamil Nadu government has reiterated the need to prevent the spread of false information. Mr. Zubair, a native of Denkanikottai …

FACT CHECK: Alwar family dispute video falsely portrayed as communal clash | Here's the truth
10 months, 3 weeks ago

FACT CHECK: Alwar family dispute video falsely portrayed as communal clash | Here's the truth

India TV News  

A video circulating on social media depicting a violent confrontation and falsely claiming to be a communal clash between Muslims and Hindus in Alwar, Rajasthan, has been debunked by the India TV Fact Check team. India TV Fact Check findings The fact-checking team discovered that the conflict occurred within a Hindu family due to a dispute over ancestral land. Image …

The assault on NewsClick marks the lowest point for media freedom in India since Emergency
1 year, 2 months ago

The assault on NewsClick marks the lowest point for media freedom in India since Emergency

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 16, 2023 17:26 IST - 11 MINS READ The vicious and sweeping Delhi Police raids on the offices of NewsClick and the residences of virtually anyone associated with it; the indiscriminate seizure of the electronic devices of journalists and other employees without “any adherence to due process such as the provision of seizure memos, hash values of …

FACT CHECK: Viral video falsely claims gangrape in Manipur, actually an incident from Bengaluru in 2021
1 year, 2 months ago

FACT CHECK: Viral video falsely claims gangrape in Manipur, actually an incident from Bengaluru in 2021

India TV News  

A distressing video depicting a gangrape has resurfaced with false claims suggesting it occurred in Manipur and involved Hindus raping a Christian woman. India TV Fact Check has confirmed that this video is unrelated to the ongoing violence in Manipur and is actually from an incident that transpired in Bengaluru, Karnataka in 2021. The Manipur region has witnessed recent violence …

Fact Check: What's truth behind viral video of Amitabh Bachchan's remarks on media? | Check here
1 year, 2 months ago

Fact Check: What's truth behind viral video of Amitabh Bachchan's remarks on media? | Check here

India TV News  

India TV Fact Check: Though social media has become an integral part of our society, it's important to recognize that it's not always a reliable source of information. A video featuring Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan is going viral on social media. A video featuring Amitabh Bachchan criticising the media is being widely circulated on social media with various claims. India …

AP Govt Fact Checks Misleading Viral Video
1 year, 2 months ago

AP Govt Fact Checks Misleading Viral Video

Deccan Chronicle  

A viral video circulating on Twitter, reportedly collecting water from a contaminated source in Aruku village, Andhra Pradesh, has been debunked by FactCheck.AP.Gov.in. In the video, children dressed in school uniforms can be seen collecting water from what appears to be a polluted source, using it for various purposes such as washing dishes. In a Twitter post, they clarified that …

OPINION | NUH: HOW VIDEOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FANNED VIOLENCE
1 year, 4 months ago

OPINION | NUH: HOW VIDEOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA FANNED VIOLENCE

India TV News  

Though the embers of communal violence in Nuh are dying down, questions are being raised by some politicians about why people belonging to a certain community are being arrested. Muslims constitute 80 per cent of the population in Nuh, and yet a Muslim family saved a Hindu family during the riots. Fake rumours circulated on social media by anti-social elements …

Nuh violence: FIR against 3 'influencers', 2,300 social media videos under cop lens
1 year, 4 months ago

Nuh violence: FIR against 3 'influencers', 2,300 social media videos under cop lens

India Today  

The Nuh police have registered three FIRs against three people over their inflammatory social media posts that triggered the violence in the district earlier this week. Of the 10 FIRs filed by the Nuh police, three were booked against one Shahid, Aadil Khan Mannaka, and a social media account named 'Shayar Guru Ghantal'. An investigation by India Today's Open Source …

Journalist with Reuters, anti-Hindu TheWire tries to internationalise Gurugram violence, skips mentioning Islamist violence against Hindus at Nuh
1 year, 4 months ago

Journalist with Reuters, anti-Hindu TheWire tries to internationalise Gurugram violence, skips mentioning Islamist violence against Hindus at Nuh

Op India  

On 2nd August, a journalist attempted to whitewash the Nuh violence and play up the Gurugram violence during the United States State Department press briefing calling it a ‘Hindu-Muslim’ clash. In her question, Reuters reporter Daphne Psaledakis asked US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller about the violence and asked if any Americans were impacted by it in Gurugram. As per …

Haryana violence: Massive spike in misinformation in last 2 weeks, say sources
1 year, 4 months ago

Haryana violence: Massive spike in misinformation in last 2 weeks, say sources

India Today  

The government is preparing a document on the spike in misinformation on social media for the past two weeks, which ultimately led to the communal violence in Haryana, sources told India Today. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology witnessed a massive spike in content related to the incident, which was hateful and vitriolic in nature, on social media, sources …

Communists falsely claim that RSS behind the Manipur viral video incident
1 year, 5 months ago

Communists falsely claim that RSS behind the Manipur viral video incident

Op India  

Today several Communist leaders and social media users circulated an image of two men in RSS uniform claiming that they are the culprits behind the horrific incident in Manipur seen in the viral video. On the 23rd of July, Former MP and CPI leader Subhashini Ali uploaded pictures of the two men in RSS dress along with the screengrab of …

India court bars airing of Al Jazeera documentary
1 year, 6 months ago

India court bars airing of Al Jazeera documentary

Al Jazeera  

A court in India has restrained Al Jazeera from broadcasting an investigative film on hate crimes against Muslims by Hindu supremacist groups in the country. The Allahabad High Court in the northern Uttar Pradesh state on Wednesday barred the Doha-based media network from airing the film India … Who Lit the Fuse?, saying the broadcast could lead to “evil consequences”. …

Bhima Koregaon Case: New Report Ties Pune Police With 'Fabricated Evidence'
2 years, 6 months ago

Bhima Koregaon Case: New Report Ties Pune Police With 'Fabricated Evidence'

The Quint  

“We generally don’t tell people who targeted them, but I’m kind of tired of watching. The analyst is employed by an email provider which WIRED had contacted as part of their investigation into the alleged compromising of the devices owned by the accused in the Bhima Koregaon case. While the accused in the case continue to languish in jails, barring …

Fake news peddler Werleman shares misleading video to label UP Police as 'Hindutva radicals', Islamists use it to make bomb blast threat
2 years, 6 months ago

Fake news peddler Werleman shares misleading video to label UP Police as 'Hindutva radicals', Islamists use it to make bomb blast threat

Op India  

Several liberals and Islamist apologists are sharing a misleading video on Twitter in which police can be seen beating a man with a beard wearing a skullcap and Lungi. The video was first posted by serial fake news peddler and Islamist sympathiser CJ Werleman who yet again took to Twitter to put the video to claim that an ‘elderly Muslim’ …

‘India among nations that hacked phones’: Global media investigation
3 years, 5 months ago

‘India among nations that hacked phones’: Global media investigation

Hindustan Times  

India is among the countries that used Israeli company NSO Group’s Pegasus phone hacking software to potentially target politicians, journalists and activists, an international collaborative investigation involving 17 media organisations including The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Die Zeit said. ‘Govt committed to right to privacy’: India’s response over Pegasus hack The first part of the multi-part investigation, released late …

FIR filed against The Wire for misinformation in Barabanki mosque case
3 years, 5 months ago

FIR filed against The Wire for misinformation in Barabanki mosque case

Op India  

The Uttar Pradesh police have registered an FIR against the far-left propaganda portal – The Wire, for spreading animosity and disturbing communal harmony in the society by propagating misinformation through a video documentary in connection with the Barabanki illegal mosque demolition case. On Thursday, the Barabanki police said that they have registered a case against the portal and three journalists …

Ghaziabad Attack: Uttar Pradesh Police Registers FIR Against Twitter, Md. Zubair, The Wire, Rana Ayyub Among Others
3 years, 6 months ago

Ghaziabad Attack: Uttar Pradesh Police Registers FIR Against Twitter, Md. Zubair, The Wire, Rana Ayyub Among Others

Live Law  

An FIR has been registered by the Uttar Pradesh Police against social media platform Twitter, News website The Wire along with Alt news co-founder Mohammed Zubair, Congress politicians Shama Mohamed, Salman Nizami and Maskoor Usmani, Journalists Rana Ayyub and Saba Naqvi for allegedly sharing a video on Twitter, of assault of an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad and giving it …

Loni viral video: Ghaziabad Police probes role of social media in 'inciting religious sentiments'
3 years, 6 months ago

Loni viral video: Ghaziabad Police probes role of social media in 'inciting religious sentiments'

India Today  

After a video of a group of six people thrashing an elderly Muslim man surfaced online, the Ghaziabad Police is now probing the role of social media platforms and users in connection with the case. In the viral video, the assailants can also be seen chopping off the victim's beard. The Ghaziabad Police could even register an FIR against social …

‘Truth remains unafraid’: Rahul Gandhi on Delhi Police visit to Twitter India's offices over toolkit row
3 years, 6 months ago

‘Truth remains unafraid’: Rahul Gandhi on Delhi Police visit to Twitter India's offices over toolkit row

Firstpost  

The Congress on Monday had alleged that the “cowardly raid” on Twitter’s offices by the Delhi Police “exposes lame-duck attempts” to hide a “fraudulent toolkit” by BJP leaders New Delhi: “Truth remains unafraid,” Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday after the Delhi Police sent a notice to Twitter India in connection with the probe into a complaint about the …

'Fact-checkers' promote old videos to peddle post-poll violence denialism
3 years, 7 months ago

'Fact-checkers' promote old videos to peddle post-poll violence denialism

Op India  

Violence has swept West Bengal since Sunday this week after the election results confirmed a TMC victory. However, no sooner did the videos of the violence in West Bengal went viral, some ‘fact checkers’ such as Alt News and Boom Live rushed to the defense of the TMC by promoting old videos of violence and thereby discrediting the reports of …

EXCLUSIVE: International plot behind R-Day violence has been exposed, says Delhi Police Commissioner
3 years, 10 months ago

EXCLUSIVE: International plot behind R-Day violence has been exposed, says Delhi Police Commissioner

India TV News  

Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava in an exclusive conversation with India TV spoke on the Republic Day violence which took place during farmers tractor parade and discussed all the actions being taken against the rioters. Speaking to India TV, Delhi's top cop said that over 40 cases have been registered, 130 people have been arrested, with peoples' help, they have …

Media spins kidnapping complaint case to allege misuse of love jihad law
4 years ago

Media spins kidnapping complaint case to allege misuse of love jihad law

Op India  

Uttar Pradesh police have taken to Twitter to call out media reports which have claimed that the cops stopped a Muslim couple from getting married based on ‘rumours of love jihad’. The police were responding to a report by The Indian Express, which accused the Uttar Pradesh police of stopping a wedding ceremony of a Muslim couple on Tuesday following …

BJP Suspects Conspiracy in 'Communally Sensitive' Video; Cong, NC Hail Prompt Police Action
4 years, 4 months ago

BJP Suspects Conspiracy in 'Communally Sensitive' Video; Cong, NC Hail Prompt Police Action

News 18  

Suspecting a conspiracy, the BJP on Monday demanded a deeper probe into the "communally sensitive" video case, while the Congress and the National Conference lauded the police for its prompt action in arresting the three accused, as all the parties urged the people to maintain peace and harmony. The video smells of a conspiracy from anti-national elements who failed in …

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