scorecardresearch
Saturday, September 20, 2025
TopicFact check

Topic: Fact check

Modi fact-checks Pakistan, visits Adampur, releases video & photo with S-400 in background

Pakistan claimed it had decimated Adampur air force base and taken out the S-400 Triumf air defence system. PM landed on the very air strip Pakistan claimed to have bombed.

The Meta-morphosis, a novella by Zuckerberg & no man’s Greenland

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Fact Check: Pushpa 2 trailer launch passed off as MVA meeting in BKC

X users shared videos of a large crowd in an open ground and claimed gathered in support of MVA. In reality, it was for a trailer launch event in Patna for Allu Arjun's upcoming film.

Fact Check: Boarding pass hinting at Rahul Gandhi’s plans to leave India on 5 June is photoshopped

The photo of the original boarding pass, assigned to Ajay Awtaney, was featured in a 2019 article published on a website named 'Live From A Lounge'.

Fact Check: Kanhaiya Kumar hasn’t been attacked. Photo shared on social media is from JNU days

The viral photo dates back to 2016 when Kanhaiya Kumar was hospitalised after a hunger strike.

Fact Check: Video of anti-AAP protest in Haryana is old, unrelated to 2024 Lok Sabha polls

An old video of ex-servicemen from Punjab urging Haryana voters to vote against the AAP has been shared out of context amid ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

Fact Check: EVMs destroyed in Manipur after alleged proxy voting. NCP leader’s claim is wrong

NCP leader Jitendra Awhad wrongly claimed that women in Manipur vandalised the EVMs because they generated 'lotus slips' no matter which button was pressed.

Amended IT rules ‘won’t muzzle political views’: HC ruling on fact check unit relies on Centre’s stance

Bombay HC refused to stay setting up of fact check unit under amended IT rules after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said only online content on central government business to be checked.

Meta’s ‘friendly’ Threads clashes with the hostile online world 

Christine Pai, the company's representative, said in an email statement that Threads will not be fact-checked. This eliminates Meta's other apps' misinformation monitoring feature.

On Camera

Dismantling Iran proxies is a legacy issue for Netanyahu. And Iraq is his last battleground

For India, the strategic ripples are significant. The immediate concern is Pakistan’s diplomatic gain as it embeds itself deeper into the defence framework of the Middle East.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.