On December 26, a Twitter user @RinaThakur_ shared a picture of a mother breastfeeding her child through a fence and claimed it depicts a detention centre in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi which is Prime Minister Modi’s constituency. The user claimed that the mother was detained for opposing the National Register of Citizens......
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Several social media users have shared a 44-second video of police arresting civilians and claimed that the incident is from Assam after the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). On January 3, @QamarAb42592867 tweeted the video and said, ” NRC implemented in Assam, people are being arrested from home now......
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India Today's Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that the viral video is from Dhaka, Bangladesh, and is around seven years old.Read more at ......
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Mamata Banerjee has staunchly opposed the idea of National Register of Citizens and has also led anti-NRC protests in West Bengal.Read more at ......
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In the backdrop of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), a video is being widely shared on social media, especially WhatsApp, with the claim that it depicts police brutality in Assam after the NRC process was carried out. The claim asserts that people are …Read more at ......
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Several people on social media have been circulating a text message which states that a ‘Hindu Jain girl’ was taken away by a Muslim boy in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. It further adds that after the incident the Jain community decided to terminate all Muslim employees from jobs across the district. As per …......
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Since December 28, several social media users have posted a video of students standing in a queue at Toronto Pearson International Airport. These posts claim that the video shows Indian students being deported from Canada for submitting fake results of International English Language Testing System (IELTS), an English language proficiency test. Lt …......
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In the backdrop of widespread protests opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act, BJP National spokesperson Sambit Patra tweeted a video along with a text saying, "Congress leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui is saying we are first Muslims then Indians…We will not accept a constitution that clashes with Islam… we are not loyal ......
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India Today Fact Check Team found out that the claim being made on social media of people coming out in support of NRC- CAA in Bhilwara is misleadingRead more at ......
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Amid protests in various parts of the country against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens, a video is going viral on social media in which a large number of Sikhs can be seen shouting slogans. It is being claimed that the crowd is protesting against NRC in Punjab.Rea......
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A Facebook post attributing a quote to former European Commission (EC) president Jean-Claude Juncker has gone viral on social media. But is it trueRead more at ......
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Our Fact Check Team revealed that a photo being passed off as Finish ministers on social media are that of Tik Tok stars from Nepal.Read more at ......
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Author Bhaavna Arora tweeted two images – a screenshot of an injured elderly man and a photo of an old man who can be seen pelting a stone – along with the message, “Chacha patharbaaji karega to kya khane ko milega Biryani (Uncle, if you pelt stones, what will you eat Biryani)”. …Read more at ......
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