Thursday, November 21, 2024

Social Media Fact-Check

Social Media has empowered the voiceless, yet, it is often the cesspool of fake news. Read before you believe.

News Reports

‘Fact-checker’ Md Zubair spreads fake news claiming Kangana Ranaut was slapped over security check argument, attacker herself admits it was for criticising farmer protests

OpIndia Staff -
Md Zubair spreads fake news, claims Kangana Ranaut slapped for her comments on farmer protests is 'unverified claim on social media'.
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DD News journalist says he was told to hide kalava on screen in 2006 during UPA regime, ‘fact-checker’ Zubair tries to prove him a...

OpIndia Staff -
Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of Alt News and self-identified fact-checker, is constantly lowering his own standards by conducting far more ludicrous 'fact-checks' and disseminating even more dangerous lies on a daily basis.
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Congress leader BL Mungekar spreads fake news that President Murmu was present when PM Modi filed nomination, claims someone else tweeted it after the...

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Hours after sharing the false news, Congress leader Mungekar claimed that someone else made the post from his handle and also extended an apology. 
News Reports

‘Clip is of mock polls’: ECI rubbishes viral video of a person casting five consecutive votes to BJP in Assam as false and misleading

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Over the video of a person casting 5 consecutive votes to BJP in Assam, the EC clarified that it is a clip of mock polls.
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‘Trucks full of thousands of cows at Adani port in Gujarat will be taken to Arab countries for slaughter’: Know the reality behind the...

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The Adani Group has nothing to do with the claim in the viral video and the port is actually located in Iraq and not Gujarat.
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Railways ministry busts fake claims about overcrowding and lack of basic amenities in trains, says old videos shared to malign the image of Indian...

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Regarding the concerns of overcrowding, the Ministry of Railways also noted that the Indian Railways is running a record number of additional trains in this season to facilitate passengers.
Fact-Check

As Israel embassy, Community Notes bust fake claims of ‘Hindu Indian man denied entry in Tel Aviv clubs’, watch how vlogger was asked to...

OpIndia Staff -
The full video by the vlogger Shubham shows he subsequently manages to find entry in some clubs and bars and enjoys the vibrant night life of Tel Aviv.
News Reports

‘Command’ & ‘Communication’ not same, this is master-slave bus: ECI schools Left-wing propagandist Ravi Nair on the basics of EVM and English language

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Responding to ulterior motives of Ravi Nair casting aspersions on EVM cloaked as “logical questions”, the ECI explained factual inaccuracies in his post.
News Reports

Congress leaders and supporters spread fake ‘Nielsen-Dainik Bhaskar survey’ predicting INDI Alliance win in elections, the newspaper promises legal action

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Several I.N.D.I. Alliance supporters continued to peddle the fake survey even after Dainik Bhaskar categorically called it out as fake news.
News Reports

Election Commission busts fake claim about mismatch between votes polled and counted in EVMs in 2019 polls, appeals to ‘verify before amplification’

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The poll body clarified that the claims are false and that the alleged letter, purportedly from the poll body, is itself fake.
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