Fake News Alert

12/04/2020

A gruesome video of two men hacking another with an axe has been shared on social media in the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic. It is being claimed that the video represents the recent incident from Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer where a man named Rewat Singh was hacked to death. According to Dainik J...

11/04/2020

A viral post of Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Groups commenting on the economy during Corona has been making rounds on social media. The post stated, “Experts are predicting huge down fall of …

11/04/2020

On April 9, Union Minister General VK Singh spoke with India Today’s Aaj Tak about UP government’s decision to seal affected areas or ‘hotspots’ of coronavirus. It was hosted by journalist Rohit Sardana. Before concluding the interview, Sardana asked the minister for his opinion on the quest...

11/04/2020

This isn’t the first time Zee News has been called out for spreading false information around the coronavirus outbreak. Several other prominent media outlets, including news agency ANI and Hindi daily Amar Ujala have been similarly called out.

The media outlet falsely claimed 11 coronavirus patients in the state could be traced back to Tablighi Jamaat’s Delhi function. The state has reported just one coronavirus infection so far.

11/04/2020

कोरोना वायरस संक्रमण ने पूरी दुनिया में अपने पैर पसार लिए है. इसी के साथ-साथ सोशल मीडिया में कोरोना से जुड़ी हुई बताक...

11/04/2020

Several Facebook posts claiming a female doctor in Uttar Pradesh died after being injured during stone pelting by local Muslims who refused to be screened for COVID-19, are false as the photo is of a pharmacist from Madhya Pradesh who died of a brain hemorrhage.

BOOM found that the pharmacist died of brain hemorrhage in Madhya Pradesh and not due to stone pelting in UP, as is being claimed online.

11/04/2020

Claim Review : Harvards Dr. Charles Lieber arrested for manufacturing the novel coronavirus with Chinas funding. Claimed By : Facebook, YouTube Fact Check : Misleading

A true account of the arrest of a biochemist and nano-scientist at Harvard has gone viral with fake claims.

08/04/2020

https://www.altnews.in/hindi/newspaper-clip-morphed-to-claim-that-maulana-saad-has-donated-rs-1-crore-to-the-pm-relief-fund/?utm_source=altnewsapp&utm_medium=myfcshare&utm_campaign=altandroidhi

कोरोना वायरस के बढ़ते संक्रमण के कारण भारत समेत कई देश लॉकडाउन की मार झेल रहे हैं. लॉकडाउन और संक्रमण के चलते देश कई .....

08/04/2020

https://twitter.com/DCP_Noida/status/1247610101260673024?s=19

08/04/2020

A video of a bloodied man lying naked is widely circulating on social media with the claim that he is a member of Tablighi Jamaat in a coronavirus isolation ward. देखिए 14 दिन के एकांतवास में भी इन तबलीगी जमात के लोगो....

08/04/2020

A 6:24 minute audio clip is circulating on messaging applications such as WhatsApp. In the audio clip, a man introduces himself as a resident of City Light area of Surat, Gujarat and warns citizens about the ‘unprecedented’ presence of Muslim hawkers in their area. He claims that while he was ta...

08/04/2020

A three-minute video which appears to depict seizure of illegal drugs is being circulated on social media with the claim that it is a recent incident from Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh. The video has a watermark on the top right and scrolling texting in the centre of the video which says ‘India news’. ...

08/04/2020

और ऑडियो है जो कि खूब वायरल हो रहा है. इसमें दिखाई कुछ भी नहीं देता है. बस एक एयरएशिया के विमान की तस्वीर है जिससे लोग ....

08/04/2020

08/04/2020

“जी न्यूज़ ही क्या नफरत फैलाने,देश के साम्प्रदायिक सौहार्द को तार-तार करने वाले प्रत्येक न्यूज़ चैनल/प्रिंट मीडि.....

08/04/2020

The Center for Great Apes in Florida uploaded the video in November 2019, weeks before the novel Coronavirus outbreak.

08/04/2020

A video of members of the Muslim community exiting a building has been widely shared with a message in Telugu which claims that the Vinayaka Temple located in Kanipakam in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district has been converted into a quarantine centre. Several users have expressed distress that Mus...

08/04/2020

https://smhoaxslayer.com/old-video-of-a-delivery-man-stealing-slices-from-bread-packets-is-viral-as-thook-jehad/

A viral video of a person removing a pin from a packet of bread and then licking it before sealing it again is getting viral on all social media platforms vlaimed as Thook Jehad, spreading Corona V…