A viral video claims to show a massive mudslide sweeping down a mountain in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, with people running away in panic. Our #AFWA team investigates the video. #FactCheckRead more at ......
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India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) found this to be a misleading claim. The viral picture has no connection with the recent Amazon forest fire, neither it is from the Amazon rain forest.Read more at ......
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Facebook user Abdul Samad Sheikh posted a picture of former Mumbai Police Commissioner Ahmed Javed and in a long post claimed that the 1980-batch IPS officer had only taken Re 1 salary throughout his 36 years tenure.Read more at ......
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The video, which has gone viral on Facebook and Twitter, was posted with the caption: "Mohd Rafi's daughter Musthafa Parvez who is Lord Krishna's devotee has a Splendid voice. Please watch this video."Read more at ......
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Facebook page 'Work For Unity' has shared an image of HC Verma, claiming that he receives Rs one crore as royalty every year for his book 'Concepts of Physics', which he donates to the PM relief fund and for charity.Read more at ......
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Many Facebook users claimed that a four-year-old boy was migrating alone from Syria to Jordan when a UNHCR team found him. However, India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the claim to be misleading. This is a five-year-old picture. The boy was indeed migrating from Syria, but he was no......
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India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the claim to be false. Lata Mangeshkar never met Ranu Mandal. The thumbnail picture of Lata Mangeshkar blessing Ranu Mandal is photoshopped and the viral video is doctored.Read more at ......
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Many social media users are claiming that clean beaches have led to sea turtles laying eggs along the Mumbai beach this week. However, India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) found that an incident of a single sea turtle laying eggs did happen last year, but no such incident has taken place this week ......
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A video has gone viral on social media of employees dancing inside a jewelry store. The claim is that with increased gold price and no customer, this is how employees are passing time.Read more at ......
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Penalties for traffic violations have risen steeply with the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019. After clauses of the new act came into effect on September 1, a video has spread like wild fire on social media and messaging platforms. The 1: 40-minute long video shows policemen lathi charging some men. AAP leader &helli......
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On September 2, Facebook user Deepak Bagi posted a disturbing video of a man who is lying supine on the ground while a mob can be heard questioning him about child-kidnapping. The mob also thrashes him with sticks. Bagi shared the video with the claim that a child-kidnapper was caught by locals …Read more at ......
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Facebook user Jitesh Jadeja posted a set of images with a message claiming that they depict a leopard attack in Polo forest, Gujarat, where a boy was killed. Among the photographs is one which shows a half-eaten carcass with upper body parts intact. “ …Read mor......
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A video where uniformed men can be seen with arms in a bus stand has been shared on social media with the claims that four people with explosions where arrested during a raid in Ahmadnagar Maliwada bus stand, Maharashtra. Raid on Ahmadnagar Maliwada bus stand.. 4 arrested with explosives… Posted by Ramesh &h......
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A photograph where PM Modi is walking in the midst of a group that welcomes the leader is doing rounds on social media. Pakistani PM Imran Khan is seen crouching in the image. “When Modiji entered in to the G-7 conferences hall, everyone assembled in the hall has given the standing welcome …Read mor......
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With the Amazon fires in Brazil raging incessantly since the beginning of the year, a video has gone viral on social media. The video is 1:55 minutes long, and has been shot from a car travelling through a region engulfed by wild fire. The video clip is in portrait mode, suggesting that …Read more at ......
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BJP MP Gautam Gambhir shared an infographic on September 4 which ascribed a quote to former US Secretary of Defense, James Mattis – “Forget Jail: If you burn the American Flag, you’ll spend two years in the military. I promise you, you’ll be cured of the desire to burn a flag ever …......
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