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Sunday, November 16, 2025
TopicFake news

Topic: fake news

If it’s too good to be true, it’s 99.9% false: Fact warrior on how to spot fake news

At ThePrint’s Democracy Wall, Factly founder Rakesh Dubbudu weighed in on how to fight fake news. It includes parenting your parents, he said.

Five irritants that need to ‘Quit India’ at the earliest

The British quit India over 70 years ago, but the country is still pestered by several irritants, which need orderly withdrawal.

Is the BJP better at misinformation? What data tells us

Misinformation on social media is not polarising Indians. Instead, it seems to be pushing them towards the BJP.

How Facebook fought fake news about Facebook

Facebook used a software program called Stormchaser among others to manage its reputation which had been hit with several privacy scandals.

Viral video of burning ropeway at Haridwar’s Mansa Devi Temple is actually from Palestine

The video, which has been shared thousands of times through multiple posts on various platforms, is of an incident that occurred in 2015.

Mohan Bhagwat & 6 RSS colleagues get Twitter accounts verified in war on fake news

Barring Mohan Bhagwat, who only follows RSS on Twitter, others in the Sangh follow each other as well. They follow no one else, including BJP members.

Old video shared to claim Muslims lynched Hindu man, but it’s from Bangladesh

A video has gone viral on Twitter claiming that Muslims lynched a Hindu man in India. But the video is from Bangladesh in which a murder accused was lynched.

Muslims didn’t ‘protest’ for any suicide bomber in Israel, it’s a tired old canard

Twitter users are sharing an old video with fake claims that Muslims took out a funeral procession for a ‘suicide bomber’ shot dead by Israeli forces.

Three Indians ‘fake’ Everest summit climb, Nepal launches inquiry

Vikas Rana, Shobha Banwala & Ankush Kasana of Haryana have been asked to furnish proof of reaching the peak of Mount Everest.

Nurse Rahul Gandhi met in Wayanad was present at his birth, but viral tweet calls it ‘scam’

A viral tweet wrongly claims Rajamma Vavathil, a retired nurse, was 13 years old at the time of Rahul Gandhi’s birth at a Delhi hospital where she on duty.

On Camera

If there’s any group who has the right to rule over India, it’s Adivasis: Jaipal Singh Munda

On 24 August 1949, Jaipal Singh Munda, the driving force behind the Jharkhand movement, argued for political representation and self-governance for the tribal community in the Constituent Assembly.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.