Tag: fake news

A set of screenshots, which purportedly show X (formerly Twitter) posts by former Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and caretaker PM Anwaar Ul Haq Kakar, is being shared on social media.What is in the screenshots?: Screenshots of both posts condole the demise of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, while calling ...

Image for representation. Journalists and experts from different fields deliberating on challenges confronting the media "on a daily basis" have called for a central law to protect "truth-seeking journalists" and censure those peddling fake news.The attendees at the all-India seminar, organised under the banner of the Indian Journalists' Union, ...

Social media users are sharing a viral text message which makes several points about "today's India" and how the country had "progressed greatly" even before Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, attributing it to former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan.What does the message say?: According ...

It’s an intriguing tale that likely plays well with the former prime miniter’s supporters, but the evidence is laughably thin. Source link

There have been previous instances of confusion because of the name. In 2018, when several news organisations misreported about about the award, CBFC board member Vani Tripathi Tikoo had taken to Twitter to state the facts. Tikoo had said in 2018, "There is only one "Dada Saheb Phalke" Award ...

A video showing Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal addressing a rally ahead of the 2019 General Elections has gone viral on the internet. The claim: People have shared the video with a claim that Kejriwal said that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ...

A proposed amendment to Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules) suggests that any content "identified as fake or false" by the Press Information Bureau's (PIB) fact-check unit must be taken down.What does the amendment propose? The amendment states that any intermediary – ...

A video showing a heated argument between doctors inside an operation theatre is going viral on the internet.The claim: Those sharing the video claimed that the video was from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh.Pakistani-Canadian columnist Tarek Fatah, who has been called out for spreading disinformation several times, also shared ...

What is the truth?: The viral clip is an altered one. The audio in the clip is reportedly from a conversation between Pakistani cricketer Ahmed Shehzad and Sri Lankan player Tillakaratne Dilshan in 2014. The audio of the conversation between Al-Bulayhi and Messi was not recorded, but the former ...

A viral video showing a man making an impassioned speech about a minor's religious conversion to Islam is being shared on social media.What are social media users claiming?: The two minutes and 20 second long video is being shared to claim that it shows a Hindu member of Parliament "begging for mercy in Pakistan Parliament" against forced religious ...