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Tarek Fatah, the unrelenting fake news peddler who targets Indian Muslims regularly

Tarak Fatah tweeted a video of Burqa-clad women dancing at a wedding, asking if it was from Shaheen Bagh. Fatah had tweeted the same video three years ago, twice.

Man stripped naked, beaten for ‘teasing’ minor girls in viral video is not Muslim

Tweets and Facebook posts have gone viral claiming that the man in Ambala POCSO Act case is a Muslim, but police say he is not.

Incoming call on iPhone can’t set steel wool on fire, viral video is edited

The video that shows a ring of steel wool, placed around an iPhone, catches fire when a call is received is an edited one.

Tarek Fatah got it wrong. Pakistani woman did not refuse polio drops for her children

The video that Tarek Fatah shared on Twitter is actually from a Pakistani movie, Load Wedding, which was released on 22 August 2018.

Rahul Kanwal did not say chanting Vande Mataram is anti-national, video is edited

Viral video of Rahul Kanwal is from a debate he hosted on India Today TV channel in 2016 after lawyers beat up Kanhaiya Kumar outside a Delhi court.

JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh is not faking her injury, viral photograph is a mirror image

Aishe Ghosh had injured her left hand in the violence that occurred on JNU campus Sunday, but the viral image shows the cast on her right hand.

Viral video of US airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani is from a video game

The video has been going viral on Facebook and WhatsApp since Tuesday, with one post getting more than 17,000 views.

Imran Khan tweets old Dhaka video as ‘police atrocities in UP’, deletes and gets slammed

Khan’s tweets drew sharp reactions from diplomacy experts as well as India’s MEA, whose spokesperson used the hashtag #Oldhabitsdiehard to criticise him.

ABVP members are not opposing Citizenship Act, it’s a doctored photo

A photograph of students, claiming to be from ABVP Assam, holding a banner against the amended citizenship law is actually from a pro-CAA protest.

Image of blood-splattered policemen is not from citizenship law protests, it’s from 2018

An image of some injured policemen is being widely circulated on Twitter, falsely claiming that they were attacked by those agitating against citizenship law.

On Camera

Modi’s speech rightly questions politics of appeasement. Wrongly targets all Muslims

The PM did make a valid point when he criticised the Congress for categorising the entire Muslim community in Karnataka under the Other Backward Classes. It is pure appeasement of Ashraaf Muslims and discriminates against Pasmandas.

Foreign policy resonating among more Indians in 2nd & 3rd tier towns of India, says EAM Jaishankar

Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.