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28	2013 picture from Bangladesh shared as BJP member assaulting elderly Muslim man - Alt News Niddhi Rathi 8th July 2019 / 9:31 pm A photograph of a man assaulting an elderly man by pulling his beard in the presence of a policeman is viral on social media. As per the claims, a BJP member was assaulting a Muslim. One Shahfeeq Bhai had posted the image on Facebook in April this year with the caption “Ye police wala nahi BJP ka kutta hai. (translation: this is not a policeman but a BJP dog).” The picture is being shared with the text “3 din ka andaar ya haat jodta hua nazar ayenga agar acche sa viral hua toh agar musalman ho aur nabi ki sunnat sa pyaar krte ho to sabi groups ma share karo (Translation: In 3 days this man will be seen folding his hands if this goes viral. If you are a Muslim and love your prophet, share in all groups.)” The post has been shared over 10,000 times. A police wala nahi BJP ka kutta hai. Posted by Shafeeq Bhai on Monday, 15 April 2019 The picture has been circulating since 2018. 3 din ka andaar ya haat jodta hua nazar ayenga agar acche sa viral hua toh agar musalman ho aur nabi ki sunnat sa pyaar krte ho to sabi groups ma share karo#India #Pakistan #Muslims pic.twitter.com/hWUFnBXejp — 𝕱𝖆𝖎𝖟𝖆𝖓 𝖅 𝕭𝖍𝖆𝖙 فیضان ظہور بھٹ۔ (@FZBtweets) November 24, 2018 Recently, we have received requests to verify the image on the Alt News app, which suggests that the photograph has been doing rounds on WhatsApp as well. A reverse image search on Google led Alt News to multiple blog posts carrying the same picture. A 2013 blog post on Insanity for Humanity had uploaded the image with the caption – “Torture on older Islamists by opposition thugs in presence of Police in Bangladesh, #Paltan #Dhaka [13 Feb, 13]”. The blog also had another image of the same incident. Another article on the blog Talukdar Saheb had the same picture with the caption – “A young ruling party activist grabs the beard of an alleged Islamist protester as he helps police in the hunt for protesters as reporters and journalists look on bewildered at the aggressive stance of police”. The article had cited various newspapers of Bangladesh like Nyaya Dignata, Amar Desh and Daily Star which had reported the incident. Daily Nyaya Dignata also wrote about the incident on their Facebook page. বৃদ্ধের দাড়ি ধরে টানা সেই ছাত্রলীগ ক্যাডারও লগি-বৈঠার খুনি মোফাচ্ছেরে কোরআন ও আলেমদের ডাকা কর্মসূচিতে সশস্ত্র… Posted by Daily Naya Diganta on Monday, 25 February 2013 An article published in Bengali on somewhereinblog.net on February 14, 2013, gives details of the incident. It says that during a protest, Bangladesh Chhatra League supporters assaulted an elderly Muslim man in front of the police in the Motijheel area of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The article also says that the photo was published in various national newspapers in Bangladesh. This was earlier fact-checked by India Today. In conclusion, a 2013 picture from Bangladesh is viral on social media with the claim that it shows a BJP member assaulting an elderly Muslim man in India. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	8th July 2019 / 9:31 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2013-picture-from-bangladesh-shared-as-bjp-member-assaulting-elderly-muslim-man/", "author": "Niddhi Rathi" }
29	2013 video from Bangladesh viral as police brutality after Assam NRC - Alt News Priyanka Jha 3rd January 2020 / 4:10 pm / Last updated: 3rd January 2020 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 being picked up from their homes. The complete message reads, “Asam me NRC lagu, logo ko gharoo se uthana shuru ho chuka h. News wale aapko ye nahi dekhayegi, kyun ki wo bik chuki h, ab aapki aur humari zimmadari h is video ko ziyada se ziyada share karne ki. #policewalegundde“ Asam me NRC lagu, logo ko gharoo se uthana shuru ho chuka h. News wale aapko ye nahi dekhayegi, kyun ki wo bik chuki h, ab aapki aur humari zimmadari h is video ko ziyada se ziyada share karne ki.#policewalegundde pic.twitter.com/jkJVwg9eDf — mr Khalifa (@ah1_anwar) January 2, 2020 Alt News has also received several verification requests on its official mobile application. Similar verification requests have been sent on Alt News’s WhatsApp number +9176000 11160. A close look at the video reveals that the cops have ‘RAB’ (Rapid Action Battalion) imprinted on their uniforms. RAB is the anti-crime and anti-terrorism unit of the Bangladesh police. A keyword search on YouTube led us to the same video uploaded on June 2014 described as, “5 May 2013 RAB & Police killing metion in Bangladesh.” https://youtu.be/dQplZSo58Ic According to a May 6, 2013 report in BBC, “At least 27 people have been killed and dozens hurt after police and Islamist protesters clashed in Bangladesh. Police used stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse a Sunday protest organised by the group Hefazat-e Islam in the capital Dhaka.” The protest was to call for stronger Islamic policies. The incident was also reported by Channel 4 News. Al Jazeera broadcast a video report on May 14, 2013 titled, “Video suggest Bangladesh hiding death toll.” One of the frames from the Al Jazeera video matches with a frame in the viral video. This was earlier fact-checked by The Quint. A 2013 video from Bangladesh where dozens of protesters were killed after clashing with the police has been shared as people being dragged out of their homes after NRC was implemented in Assam. She specializes in information verification, examining mis/disinformation, social media monitoring and platform accountability. Her aim is to make the internet a safer place and enable people to become informed social media users. She has been a part of Alt News since 2018. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	3rd January 2020 / 4:10 pm / Last updated: 3rd January 2020	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2013-video-from-bangladesh-riot-viral-as-assams-police-brutality-after-nrc/", "author": "Priyanka Jha" }
30	Old video of symbolic protest in Egypt viral as Palestinians faking deaths - Alt News Abhishek Kumar 20th May 2021 / 8:03 pm A video of people covered in shrouds lying on the ground is circulating on social media with the claim that Palestinians are faking casualties and shooting videos of the same to tarnish Israel’s global reputation. Facebook users Hiren Savani and Uday Kumar Sharma, BJP’s Ashish Mehta and Shwetabh Pathak posted the video with the same narrative. Twitter user @MirYanaSY amplified the claim as well. #Palestinian dead bodies are checking to see if foreign media have finished taking photos, some bodies are feeling suffocated Seriously journos need to give them a break 😅 pic.twitter.com/LqmGAL0qJ2 — Yana Mir (@MirYanaSY) May 16, 2021 The video is viral on Facebook. Alt News also received verification requests on its official WhatsApp number (7600011160). Alt News broke the video into multiple keyframes using the digital verification tool InVid. Upon reverse searching one of the keyframes, we found the same video posted by the YouTube channel ‘Elbadil newspaper’ on October 28, 2013. The title of the video reads, “A representative show of bodies inside Al-Azhar University”. Another YouTube channel – ‘Akhbar El Yom Tv‘ – also posted the video on October 28, 2013. On the basis of the YouTube videos, we performed a keyword search in Arabic and found that the video is indeed from Egypt’s Al-Azhar University. The students were demonstrating against police and army by posing as corpses. This is not the first time this video was shared with a false narrative. In March 2014, the Egyptian channel El Balad TV had linked the video with the 2013 Rabaa massacre. The video was falsely shared as a chemical attack in Syria and Palestine in 2018. It frequently goes viral in Egypt as well. International news agency AFP had debunked the video in April 2021 when it went viral in Egypt with a different misleading claim. Moreover, Syrian fact-checking agency Verify-sy, Dogrula.org, Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research (DFR) Lab, and Arabic fact-checking organization Misbar have also published reports fact-checking the video. Therefore, a video from Egypt’s Al-Azhar University where students protested against police and army by posing as dead bodies in 2013 is viral as Palestinians faking deaths. Abhishek is a senior fact-checking journalist and researcher at Alt News. He has a keen interest in information verification and technology. He is always eager to learn new skills, explore new OSINT tools and techniques. Prior to joining Alt News, he worked in the field of content development and analysis with a major focus on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	20th May 2021 / 8:03 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2013-video-of-demonstration-by-studen-is-being-shared-claiming-to-be-of-palestinians-trying-to-discredit-israel/", "author": "Abhishek Kumar" }
31	Video from 2013 shared as late actor Dilip Kumar's last moments - Alt News Kinjal 9th July 2021 / 3:54 pm Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar passed away on July 7, 2021, at the age of 98. His death sent shockwaves across the film fraternity and left fans in mourning. Hundreds took to social media to offer their condolences and tribute posts to the legendary actor. Amidst this, a video is being circulated widely on social media where Dilip Kumar is seen sitting on a hospital bed with his wife Saira Banu standing beside him. The footage is being shared as his final moments. Times Group’s entertainment channel ‘ETimes’ posted the clip with the same claim. The accompanying caption contains the hashtag ‘#Throwback’. Dilip Kumar ji’s last few moments #Throwback: Have a look at Dilip Kumar ji’s last few moments with his wife Saira Banu ji. He will always be in our hearts.💔🙏🏻 Posted by ETimes on Wednesday, July 7, 2021 Facebook page Telly Tashan also posted the visuals as Kumar’s last video inside the hospital before his demise. India.com shared the video and wrote, “#Throwback: Last moments of #DilipKumar with his wife #SairaBanu.” (Archive link) Dilip Kumar Throwback Video #Throwback: #DilipKumar ji’s last few moments with his wife #SairaBanu ji. . #Bollywood #BollywoodActor #RIP #RIPDilipKumar #VeteranActor Posted by India.com on Wednesday, July 7, 2021 Several Facebook users have promoted the same claim. A number of verified YouTube channels including ‘Event Talkies‘, ‘Filmy Crazy‘, ‘Bol Bollywood‘ and ‘Movie Talkies‘ also shared the visuals as the last video of Dilip Kumar from the hospital. Alt News performed a reverse image search of stills from the viral clip, which led us to some reports from September 2013. According to a story in The Indian Express dated September 24, 2013, this video was taken when Dilip Kumar was admitted to Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital. He had been admitted there on September 15, 2013. The video was tweeted from his official Twitter handle on September 22, 2013. Thank you for your prayers and love. Resting in the hospital. Video from yesterday. http://t.co/YoofBJgObz — Dilip Kumar (@TheDilipKumar) September 22, 2013 The handle also tweeted a photo of the actor’s last few moments in which his spouse Saira Banu was also seen. However, the couple has donned different clothes than the ones they have worn in the clip in question. Despite adding ‘#Throwback’ to their posts, ETimes and India.com promoted the video as Dilip Kumar’s last moments with Saira Banu. The video is eight years old. Earlier in May, a video of journalist Navin Kumar criticising the state of affairs in the country due to COVID was shared as late Aaj Tak anchor Rohit Sardana’s final moments. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	9th July 2021 / 3:54 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2013-video-of-dilip-kumar-in-hospital-with-his-wife-saira-bano-shared-as-his-last-moment/", "author": "Kinjal" }
32	Old image of Muslim students studying Hinduism viral as "altering" Hindu scriptures - Alt News Priyanka Jha 28th July 2020 / 5:33 pm / Last updated: 28th July 2020 A photograph where Muslim men can be seen with the Atharva Veda has been shared with the claim that they are altering Hindu scriptures. The claim further suggests that 20 years hence, next generations will not be able to read the Vedas, Puranas and Upanishads in the original form. A post by Facebook page Vastavik Bharat has received more than 2,800 shares. [Translated from; देखो और ध्यान दो और क्या हो रहा है हमारे देश में. क्या ये हमारे धर्म ग्रंथों में मिलावट करने का कार्य हो रहा है. क्या आने वाले 20 साल बाद हमारी अगली पीढ़ियां ये #मिलावटी वेद, पुराण, उपनिषद पढ़ेंगे.] The picture is viral on Facebook with people talking about Hindu scripture being changed. Identical claim is floating on Twitter. देखो और ध्यान दो और क्या हो रहा है हमारे देश में 🤔🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨हमारे धर्म ग्रंथों में मिलावट करने का कार्य जोरों से चल रहा है,,,, 🙄🙄🙄 आने वाली 20 साल बाद हमारी अगली पीढ़ियां ये #मिलावटी वेद ,पुराण , उपनिषद पढ़ेंगे। ,,, जिसमें लिखा होगा चरित्र निर्माण बेकार की बात है🦹 pic.twitter.com/ZJk8zxfC7C — Rï†wïk §ïñgh ।धर्मार्थम् हिंसा परमो धर्मः। (@RAJPOOT_HUNK) July 21, 2020 A reverse-image search led us to a 2014 report in The Hindu which described the image as, “Students at Al Mahadul Aali Al Islami studying the Vedas to understand the common attributes in Islam and Hinduism. This seminary has more than 1000 books on other religions at Hyderabad.” The photograph is credited to G Ramakrishnan. We contacted Al Mahadul Aali Al Islami institute for more information on the photo. Deputy Director Mufti Omar Abedeen told us that this picture was shot in their library and is several years old. “We have a department called ‘Mutalaya Mizahid’ which means ‘Studies of Faiths’ where students are taught not only about Hinduism but also about other religions like Christianity and Sikhism. We have been doing this work for almost 20 years. We also invite scholars of other religions to teach so that the students get the best understanding of every religion.” Therefore, a 6-year-old image of Muslim students studying Hinduism was shared with the false claim that they are tampering with Hindu scriptures. She specializes in information verification, examining mis/disinformation, social media monitoring and platform accountability. Her aim is to make the internet a safer place and enable people to become informed social media users. She has been a part of Alt News since 2018. In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The CCTV footage of a man violently flinging a child on the ground has created… A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	28th July 2020 / 5:33 pm / Last updated: 28th July 2020	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2014-image-from-hyderabad-where-muslim-students-study-about-hinduism-shared-with-false-claim-that-veda-upanishad-are-being-changed/", "author": "Priyanka Jha" }
33	Old image of mosque blown up in Iraq viral as Taliban's act in Pakistan - Alt News Kinjal 25th August 2021 / 6:50 pm A photo of a collapsing minaret-like structure with billowing smoke and fire around it is being circulated widely on social media. Users are sharing the image and jokingly commenting that a mosque in Pakistan was launched into space with the help of the Taliban. Twitter user Janvi Singh shared the photo with the message. (Archive link) पाकिस्तान में तालिबानियों की मदद से पहली मस्जिद अंतरिक्ष में लांच की गई बधाइयां रुकनी नहीं चाहिए 🤣🤣🙄 pic.twitter.com/ElY6Z7f91B — जानवी सिंह (@Janvisingh132) August 21, 2021 Facebook user Ashok Tiwari posted the image in a group called ‘‘योगी है तो यकीन है!’ (Yogi hai toh yakin hai). The image is widespread on Facebook and Twitter. Using a simple reverse image search, Alt News came across an article by Iraq News dated July 6, 2014 which covered an attack conducted by terrorist outfit ISIS in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Along with the viral image, the outlet carried other visuals depicting the aftermath of the attack. An article by The Independent dated July 14, 2014 also ran the photo as the Al Quba Hussainia Mosque. According to the caption, this mosque in Mosul was blown up with explosives. This image has been attributed to the Associated Press (AP) in the article. A video of the mosque being destroyed was also shared in a story by Daily Mail. To sum it up, an old image of the Al Quba Hussainia Mosque was shared with the claim that a mosque was demolished by the Taliban in Pakistan. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	25th August 2021 / 6:50 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2014-image-of-isis-attack-on-iraq-shared-as-attack-on-pakistan-by-taliban/", "author": "Kinjal" }
35	2014 image of Seva Bharti workers shared as RSS relief work during recent Kerala floods - Alt News Pooja Chaudhuri 4th September 2018 / 9:21 pm “केरल में संघ लगभग 3800 राहत शिविर का संचालन कर 700000 बाढ़ पीड़ितों को प्रतिदिन मदद दे रहा है। बड़े खरनाक हैं ये भगवा आतंकी !!! (In Kerala, Sangh is operating approximately 3,800 relief camps which are helping 7 lakh flood victims every day. These saffron terrorists are very dangerous – translated).” This message was viral on social media with the image of RSS workers allegedly providing relief aid to Kerala flood victims. An individual user on Facebook अरबिन्द कुमार गुप्ता (Arbind Kumar Gupta) shared the image which was reshared 2,700 times. Another Facebook user Sandeep Gharat shared the image with the identical claim on a group called I Am Proud India. Gharat has shared the post in three other groups – We Support Narendra Modi 2019, Once Again Modi Raj 2019 and Narendra Modi Fans. It has a combined share count of over 1,100 and has been liked nearly 4,100 times. It was also shared by one RJ Pamod Gupta and attracted 1,000 shares and over 2,400 likes. A couple of users on Twitter also circulated the image with the accompanying claim, including a user who identifies himself as an RSS worker and another who is followed by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal’s Office. Alt News reverse searched the image on Google and found that it was published in 2014 by a website called samvada.org in an article titled – ‘RSS Swayamsevaks helps devotees during ‘Punarjani Guha crawling festival’ in Thiruvilwamala Kerala’. The website samvada.org is associated with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. According to the report, during the state’s annual Tunnel Crawling Festival, ‘Seva Bharati’ workers offered food, water and shelter to the people at Punarjani Guha. As floods wreaked havoc across districts in Kerala, several old images and videos of unrelated RSS work poured in on social media. Alt News has debunked them several times in the past. Circulating images with a false narrative during a disaster is an insensitive tactic to garner commendation. Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	4th September 2018 / 9:21 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2014-image-of-seva-bharti-workers-shared-as-rss-relief-work-during-recent-kerala-floods/", "author": "Pooja Chaudhuri" }
36	Chennai skating boy misidentified as 'Jamal Mallik', fictional character from 'Slumdog Millionaire' - Alt News Kinjal 6th August 2020 / 10:43 pm A video of a young boy performing stunts on rollerskates has gone viral on social media. As per claims, the boy is “Jamal Malik from Mumbai”. Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Rafiq Ansari tweeted the video with the same claim which has been viewed over 16,000 times. मुम्बई, जमाल मलिक, सिर्फ 7 साल उम्र,, जमाल ने कमाल कर दिया… वाह बेटा, शाबाश बेटा…🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/VidGISGmF9 — Haji Rafiq Ansari 🇮🇳 (@hajirafiqansari) August 2, 2020 A handle @0785Ha tweeted the video on July 31 which had been viewed over 19,000 times. The handle, which has now changed its username to @0006Ha, also claimed that the boy shown in the video is a tea-seller in Mumbai. On Facebook, a page ‘We support Abhisar Sharma’ also posted the video with the same claim. Another user posted this with a caption in Gujarati, ““મુંબઈ મેં ચા બેચને વાલે 7 વર્ષ એ જમાલ મલિક ને કમાલ કર દિયા, એક વાર ઉસકા ટેલન્ટ જરૂર દેખીયે”, which has been viewed over 1 lakh times. Alt News has received multiple requests on the official mobile application to check the credibility of this video. A car that appears in the video has “Khivraj” written on its backside. Khivraj Motors is a car dealer based out of Chennai. Furthermore, a song from the movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is playing in the background of the video. In the movie, the character played by actor Dev Patel is named Jamal Malik. The background sound includes the part from the movie where actor Anil Kapoor says “Mumbai ka chaiwala, Jamal Mailk! (Mumbai’s tea seller, Jamal Mallik)”. Most people on social media have fallen for this background narration and claimed that the boy in the video is actually a tea-seller from Mumbai, Jamal Malik. A keyword search on YouTube led to the same video uploaded on April 12, 2014. The boy who is skating has been identified as Henry. The visuals from the viral video can be seen here from 1 minute 42 seconds onwards. The channel also uploaded a longer video of Henry’s stunts on skates. Upon further search, we found out more information about Henry’s stunts and a record on the “India Book of Records” website. Henry performed this stunt at Chennai’s Savita Engineering College on April 10, 2014. As per the website, Henry completed the stunt by passing below 45 Renault Nissan cars covering a distance of 102 meters in 27.4 seconds. Henry’s name appears in the ‘Longest Distance Covered in Limbo’ category on the website of Record Holders Republic. Additionally, Asia Book of Records also mentions Henry’s stunt. Therefore, Chennai boy Henry performing stunts on skates has been misidentified as “Jamal Mallik from Mumbai” who is a fictional character from the movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… Trigger Warning: Violent Content. Viewer discretion is advised. Over the past few months, rumours of… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	6th August 2020 / 10:43 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2014-video-of-a-boy-named-henry-refusion-limbo-skating-record-from-tamil-nadu-shared-as-jamal-malik-from-mumbai-slumdog-millionaire/", "author": "Kinjal" }
37	Old video of Naga Sadhu being beaten up used to target AAP after Punjab victory - Alt News Kinjal 22nd March 2022 / 4:04 pm Following the victory of the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab, social media is rife with several types of claims targeting the party. Against this backdrop, a video is being widely shared in which some people wearing turbans are seen beating up a Naga Sadhu. It is being claimed that atrocities on Hindus have begun in Punjab after the AAP’s election win in the state. Facebook user Ramesh Dalwani posted this video with the same claim. (Archive link) Horror started on Hindus by the supporters ofJihadi AAP team. Posted by Ramesh Dalavai on Sunday, March 13, 2022 Several others on Facebook also posted the video targeting the Aam Aadmi Party. One Twitter user also promoted the video. However, the tweet did not mention AAP. Horror started on Hindus Sadhu by the supporters of Jihadi AAP & Khalistan pic.twitter.com/OjeHDBBTiK — हिन्दू स्वाभिमान_KRT🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 (@subashk41062196) March 19, 2022 Alt News performed a keyword search on YouTube, which led us to a video that had been posted in 2017. However, it did not contain any additional information about the incident. Upon further research, we found a report by the Daily Mail dated August 6, 2014, carrying the video. It is mentioned here that a video of a group of Sikh men beating up a sadhu was posted online. It is worth noting that in 2014, a coalition between the Akali Dal and the BJP was ruling in Punjab, with Parkash Singh Badal serving as the chief minister. A website called Singh Station also covered the incident in an article dated July 13, 2014. It is mentioned here that a Naga Sadhu was thrashed by people belonging to some Sikh community on the Phagwara National Highway because he was not wearing clothes. A bystander recorded a video of this and posted it online. Following this, a Hindu organization from the city of Nakodar staged a protest objecting to the incident. The police reached the protest site and recorded Mohalla Ramauta resident Sunny Dhir’s statement, registering a case against three unidentified individuals. To sum it up, a 2014 video of a group of Sikh men attacking a Naga sadhu was falsely circulated as visuals of atrocities against Hindus in Punjab after the Aam Aadmi Party’s win in the state elections. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	22nd March 2022 / 4:04 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2014-video-of-naga-sadhu-beaten-up-by-sikhs-shared-as-recent-after-aap-victory-in-punjab/", "author": "Kinjal" }
38	Old video shared as Vedic mantras chanted on Biden's 'first day' now viral as Kamala Harris - Alt News Kinjal 21st November 2020 / 5:48 pm / Last updated: 2nd December 2020 A video is widely circulating on social media with the claim that mantras were chanted and Sanatana dharma was worshipped on Kamala Harris’s ‘first day’ as Vice President of the United States. Kamala Harris started her first day in office as a Vice President of USA with mantras and pooja of sanatan dharma ઓફ Lord Ganesha, Lord Hanuman and Godess Durga ! pic.twitter.com/L2fvnHNdtc — 𝓡𝓪𝓳𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓻𝓪\|\|राजेंद्र\|\|রাজেন্দ্র\|\|ਰਾਜੇਂਦਰ\|\| (@sdl_singh) November 30, 2020 Alt News has also received verification requests for the video. The same video was viral last month as Vedic mantras chanted on Joe Biden’s ‘first day’ at the White House. Rtns Pls observe how the White House first day before entering the New American PRESIDENT, How they perform Indian Slocas invocking Almighty of the UNIVERS for the GOOD happening of the Countrymen. Posted by Venkatesha Rao on Monday, 16 November 2020 The clip has been shared by several users on Facebook. A keyword search on YouTube took us to an October 15, 2014 link where the same video was shared. Radio Jockey Giridhar Talla had shared the video a day earlier on October 14, 2014. “Jeffrey Erhard and Robbie Erhard started off the fourth annual Hindu American Seva Communities Conference with the first anuvakam of Sri Rudram Namakam,” read the description. “Celebrating Mahatma Gandhi’s 145th birth anniversary at the White House on October 2nd 2014. This is the Hindu American Seva Communities fourth annual conference,” it further said. Rudram Chanting @the White House by the American DUO (MUST WATCH) Jeffrey Erhard and Robbie Erhard started off the fourth annual Hindu American Seva Communities Conference with the first anuvakam of Sri Rudram Namakam. — Celebrating Mahatma Gandhi’s 145th birth anniversary at the White House on October 2nd 2014. This is the Hindu American Seva Communities fourth annual conference. The conference was followed by a homeless hunger seva event organized by the Dharmic Feeding Coalition, which is a volunteer community that serves homeless hunger meals with the help of the Satya Sai Baba centers and Hare Krishna Temples. —– ****Disclaimer: this is not an official White House endorsed event. This is a conference/briefing where Hindu-Americans gather to discuss seva and social justice at the White House thanks to the outreach of the current administration. The day was engaged in a dialogue and discussion about the importance of service and its relevance in the larger Hindu and American communities. Last year’s conference was celebrating Swami Vivekananda, this year was about Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy.**** Posted by Giridhar Talla on Tuesday, 14 October 2014 The website of Hindu American Seva Communities had also posted about the event six years ago. The conference was held on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary. “HASC is hosting the conference to highlight an inside-out approach to development and service through traditional Dharmic values of seva and social justice to address priority issues impacting our community and our country.” It is also noteworthy that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the US President-elect and Vice-President-elect respectively. Their swearing-in ceremony is scheduled to be held on January 21, 2021 amidst Donald Trump’s repeated false claims that he won the elections. A video from 2014 was falsely shared as Vedic hyms chanted upon Joe Biden’s arrival at the White House. The same video was also shared as Sanatana dharma worshipped on Kamala Harris’s first day as VP. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	21st November 2020 / 5:48 pm / Last updated: 2nd December 2020	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2014-video-shared-as-white-house-holding-a-recital-of-hindu-shlokas-for-joe-biden/", "author": "Kinjal" }
39	Image from 2015 viral as human flag formed during Yogi Adityanath's recent Kerala visit - Alt News Kinjal 23rd February 2021 / 5:55 pm / Last updated: 25th February 2021 On February 21, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath joined the BJP’s Vijay Yatra organised in Kasaragod, Kerala. A picture showing a massive crowd of people forming a human flag in the shape of a lotus is widespread on social media. It was claimed that the BJP’s symbol was formed to welcome Adityanath in Kerala. BJP leader Manish Singh tweeted the photo but later took it down. Twitter user Apurva Singh wrote, “Lotus is blooming. #KeralaWelcomesYogiJi”. Her tweet gained over 2,000 retweets and more than 12,000 likes as of this writing. It was later deleted but an archived link can be found here. Several others have shared the picture with the hashtag #KeralaWelcomesYogiJi. A keyword search led us to a report by The Indian Express published on April 7, 2015. “To celebrate its 35th foundation day, the BJP created a spectacle at a college ground in Dahod by forming a huge party flag with around 25,000 supporters.” The human flag was therefore formed in Gujarat six years ago on the BJP’s foundation day. The Quint had uploaded a video report on the celebrations. An image of BJP workers who formed a human flag in Gujarat in 2015 has been shared with the false claim that the flag was formed to welcome Yogi Adityanath in Kerala. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	23rd February 2021 / 5:55 pm / Last updated: 25th February 2021	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2015-image-of-bjp-foundation-day-in-gujarat-shared-with-false-claim-that-kerala-welcomes-cm-yogi-adityanath/", "author": "Kinjal" }
40	Image from 2015 shared as Canadian PM Justin Trudeau joins farmers' protest in Canada - Alt News Kinjal 7th December 2020 / 5:32 pm A picture of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau surrounded by members of the Sikh community has been shared on social media. It is being claimed that Trudeau participated in farmers’ protest in Canada. Facebook page ‘K9media’ shared the image and wrote, “Canada – #Prime Minister of Canada during farmers’ protest.” The post drew 1,400 likes as of this writing. कनाडा – #किसानों के धरनें पर कनाडा का प्रधानमंत्री Posted by K9media on Thursday, 3 December 2020 The picture has also been shared on Twitter against the backdrop of Trudeau’s support to the ongoing farmers’ movement. कनाडा – #किसानों के धरनें पर कनाडा का प्रधानमंत्री ! pic.twitter.com/GgYoXpDaqZ — Rajesh Ranjan tyagi (@RajeshR71176567) December 3, 2020 It is widely circulating on Facebook as well. A simple Google reverse image search led us to a report by Hindustan Times published in November 2015. HT Punjab also tweeted these pictures of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s Gurudwara tour on November 12, 2015. According to the tweet, Trudeau went to a gurdwara in the capital of Ottawa on the occasion of Diwali. Canadian PM @JustinTrudeau visits temple, gurdwara on #Diwalihttps://t.co/LuvpQzkJsy pic.twitter.com/ZYZmpRdSJG — HT Punjab (@HTPunjab) November 12, 2015 Reuters had uploaded the image on November 11, 2015. A picture Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to a gurdwara in November 2015 was falsely shared as him participating in farmers’ protest in Canada. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	7th December 2020 / 5:32 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2015-image-of-canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-visit-gurudwara-shared-as-he-joins-farmer-protest/", "author": "Kinjal" }
41	India-China dispute: Old image from Nigeria shared as slain Indian army soldiers in Ladakh - Alt News Archit 19th June 2020 / 4:19 pm / Last updated: 19th June 2020 Around June 18, an image that shows slain soldiers laid on the ground went viral on social media with the claim that it shows martyred Indian soldiers in Ladakh. A Facebook page ‘Kashmir Update’ shared the viral image and wrote, “Pic From #Ladakh Indian Army.” It has been shared over 600 times. (archive link) The viral image was also published by Baaghi TV. (archive link) Alt News has received several requests to fact-check this on WhatsApp (+917600011160) and on our official Android application. Alt News performed a reverse image search on Google and found that the image was published in a 2015 blog called Time Press Africa. As per the blog, the image shows Nigerian soldiers who were martyred while battling against militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The blog reported that the bodies of the slain soldiers were secretly buried by the Nigerian army at the military cemetery in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Using this as a clue, we performed a keyword search and found that Nigeria-based The Guardian published a report in December 2015 on the incident. As per the report, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) demanded an investigation on the widespread allegations of the secret burial by the military of more than 105 soldiers who were reportedly killed during an ambush by armed Boko Haram militants in the last week of November. Thus the social media claim that the viral image shows Indian army troopers is false. 🙏 Blessed to have worked as a fact-checking journalist from November 2019 to February 2023. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	19th June 2020 / 4:19 pm / Last updated: 19th June 2020	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2015-image-of-martyred-nigerian-soldiers-viral-as-a-picture-from-indian-army-in-ladakh/", "author": "Archit" }
42	Photo from Yemen shot in 2015 shared as security check at Afghanistan Airport - Alt News Priyanka Jha 24th August 2021 / 2:13 pm Abhishek Kumar, a sub-editor at The Lallantop, recently shared an image claiming it shows security check procedure underway at Afghanistan’s airport. (Archive link) #afghanistan एयरपोर्ट पर सिक्योरिटी चेक की मनोरम तस्वीर.. मतलब एपिक है ये..! pic.twitter.com/oqNAljuvoa — Abhishek Kumar (@Abhishakejee) August 17, 2021 A Facebook page shared the image and accompanying claim in a post that garnered more than 7,000 likes. The image is widespread on Facebook. A few handles on Twitter also shared the photo as scenes from Kabul Airport. We performed a reverse image search and located the photo in a July 2015 Facebook post by a UK-based entertainment company called LADbible. Although the page did not provide more information about the photo, we noticed that it was of a much higher resolution than the viral image. We performed a reverse image search for a second time, which led us to a November 2015 article on a website that carried the picture. According to this website, the image was taken in Yemen. We also found a tweet by a journalist from CBS News containing the photo dated July 1, 2015. The accompanying caption read, “Memories of Yemen: Houthi soldiers investigating a man attending a rally. Knives, skewers and machine guns are allowed.” Memories from #yemen: Houthi soldier searching a man going into a rally: Qat, daggers & machine guns allowed! pic.twitter.com/TFevPYz9pv — yemenfelix1 (@amtadros) July 1, 2015 Using a keyword search, we found a video story by CBS Evening News dated June 16, 2015. We noticed that the 1:21 mark of the video resembles the image that has been circulating. The story also mentions that the Houthi rebels were conducting security checks. According to a 2015 BBC report, Houthi rebels based in northern Yemen had attacked other parts of the country. Their capture of the capital city Sanaa forced the president to flee the country. The report states, “Houthis are Shia Muslims, who have the support of Iran. The rest of Yemen largely comprises Sunni Muslims, and Saudi Arabia started the bombings against the Houthi rebels.” To sum it up, a 2015 picture from Yemen was falsely circulated as Afghanistan. She specializes in information verification, examining mis/disinformation, social media monitoring and platform accountability. Her aim is to make the internet a safer place and enable people to become informed social media users. She has been a part of Alt News since 2018. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	24th August 2021 / 2:13 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2015-image-of-yemen-shared-as-security-check-at-airport-in-afganistan/", "author": "Priyanka Jha" }
43	Photo of Sikh activist on hunger strike in 2015 falsely linked to farmers' protest - Alt News Kinjal 26th December 2020 / 1:04 pm A picture of an emaciated elderly man lying on a cot has been shared on social media with users identifying him as Bapu Surat Singh. Claims suggest that he has been on a hunger strike in solidarity with the protesting farmers. Facebook page ‘K9media’, which has shared misinformation several times in the past, posted this picture. (Archive link) Another Facebook page named ‘Kanhaiya Kumar – Youthicon‘ also shared the image and accompanying claim. So did Facebook user Manojsinh Parmar. The photo is viral on Facebook with the Hindi hashtag #बापूसूरतसिंह (#BapuSuratSingh). We performed a simple reverse image search and found a blog post from October 20, 2015 carrying the image. The man was identified in the post as 82-year-old human rights activist Bapu Surat Singh who had been on a hunger strike for 277 days. He was demanding the immediate release of political prisoners from minority communities, including Sikhs, who were behind bars despite having served their full sentences. A Facebook page titled ‘Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa – Sangharsh Jaari Hai’ shared this image on September 23, 2015. Sikh Relief – SOPW, a charity working for the civil rights of political prisoners, had also posted the image on their Facebook page on October 6, 2015. It also shared a second picture of the activist on September 21, 2015. According to the post, this picture was taken on the 250th day of his hunger strike. According to a report by The Indian Express, dated December 6, 2015, an alleged video of Bapu Surat Singh consuming food had gone viral on social media. The report said that his son Ravi Indarjit Singh Gogi explained that his father’s condition had worsened considerably. He was taken to the hospital and given some injections following which did not remember that he was on a hunger strike. The reason that he was fed was due to his rapidly deteriorating health. On July 8, 2020, Sikh news portal Sikh 24 reported that the senior citizen had completed 2,000 days of his peaceful hunger strike on July 7, 2020. It also mentioned that he had originally begun fasting on January 16, 2015, and was being monitored at Ludhiana’s DMC Hospital. We also found a YouTube video from April 25, 2015 which stated that his hunger strike was motivated by the fight for human rights. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G3RjC2t7ew] Therefore, a 2015 picture taken during Punjab activist Bapu Surat Singh’s hunger strike for the release of political prisoners was recently shared in connection with the ongoing farmers’ protests. Similar photographs and videos of old and unrelated incidents have been falsely linked to these demonstrations multiple times. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	26th December 2020 / 1:04 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2015-images-of-bapu-surat-singh-shared-as-he-is-on-hunger-strike-for-farmers/", "author": "Kinjal" }
44	2015 video of pro-Pakistan chants in Kashmir falsely linked to farmers' protest - Alt News Archit 9th December 2020 / 1:02 pm / Last updated: 11th December 2020 Amidst the ongoing farmers’ protest, several Twitter users have posted a video of Sikh men chanting pro-Pakistan slogans. The clip has been shared along with the Hindi text, “A glimpse of anti-national farmers’ protest in this one minute video. Kashmir will become Pakistan. Punjab will become Khalistan. (किसान आंदोलन की देश विरोधी झलक इस 1 मिनट के वीडियो में. कश्मीर बनेगा पाकिस्तान. पंजाब बनेगा खालिस्तान.)” किसान आंदोलन की देश विरोधी झलक इस 1 मिनट के वीडियो में….. कश्मीर बनेगा पाकिस्तान पंजाब बनेगा खालिस्तान Posted by Shiv Kushwaha on Wednesday, 9 December 2020 The video is massively viral on Facebook with the same message. It was also shared with the text, “If you want them to be booked for sedition, make this video viral.” Twitter user @OmPraka43229608 posted the video, gaining over 1,000 retweets. (archived link) अगर आप भी चाहते है कि इनके ऊपर देशद्रोह का मुकदमा दर्ज हो तो ज्यादा से ज्यादा वायरल करें देश को एक साजिश करके तोड़ने की कोशिश की जा रही है जो कभी कामयाब नहीं होगी@HMOIndia pic.twitter.com/dQkx61xpEt — Om Prakash Rawat (@OmPraka43229608) December 8, 2020 Akash RSS’s video gained close to 9,000 views since it was posted on December 8 (archived link). In the past, Alt News has document multiple instances of misinformation promoted by Akash RSS. अगर आप भी चाहते है कि इनके ऊपर देशद्रोह का मुकदमा दर्ज हो तो ज्यादा से ज्यादा वायरल करें pic.twitter.com/VwjbioLuOJ — Akash RSS (@Satynistha) December 8, 2020 Some Facebook users have also posted this video. Additionally, Alt News received several requests on our WhatsApp helpline number (+917600011160) and on our official Android application to authenticate this claim. Alt News performed a keyword search on Facebook and YouTube and found that the viral video was posted by local news outlets Kashmir Essence News and The Kashmir Pulse in October 2015. The juxtaposition below shows that both clips represent the same incident. Facebook Page Mission save Pakistan posted an image of the incident around the same time along with the link to a news report by The Deccan Chronicle. As per The Kashmir Pulse, Sikh protesters chanted pro-Pakistan slogans during a protest against the desecration of the Sikh scripture Guru Granth Sahib at Baramulla in Kashmir. The same was reported by The Deccan Chronicle. Thus, social media users posted a clip of Kashmiri Sikh protesters from 2015 and falsely linked it to the recent farmers’ protest. Over the past few weeks, multiple old images and videos have been shared as farmers’ protest to delegitimise the protest and falsely promote that the movement has a ‘Khalistani’ agenda. 🙏 Blessed to have worked as a fact-checking journalist from November 2019 to February 2023. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The CCTV footage of a man violently flinging a child on the ground has created… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media….	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	9th December 2020 / 1:02 pm / Last updated: 11th December 2020	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2015-video-of-pro-pakistan-chants-in-kashmir-falsely-linked-to-farmers-protest/", "author": "Archit" }
45	Old video where salon attendant applies saliva on customer's face falsely shared with Muslim angle - Alt News Kinjal 8th April 2020 / 8:25 pm / Last updated: 8th April 2020 Amidst the nationwide lockdown imposed to fight coronavirus, social media is in the middle of an information war. Old videos and manufactured audio clips are being widely shared to build the false narrative that the Muslim community is deliberating trying to spread the viral infection in India. This is in the backdrop of Delhi’s Nizamuddin emerging as a coronavirus hotspot after several Tablighi Jamaat members were tested positive. In the latest attempt, a video of a barber massaging a customer’s face with his own saliva is massively viral. The customer is evidently unaware of the sickening act. The video has been shared with the claim that the barber hails from the Muslim community hence, all “Hindu brothers” should avoid visiting barbers who are Muslims. “Salim Hair Saloon, all Hindu brothers closely watch this video and decide whether we should go to a Muslim barber for shaving or should we do it on our own or get it done from a Hindu (-translated),” reads the caption posted by Facebook page Hindustani Patel. 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 सलीम हेयर सैलून सभी हिन्दू भाई इस वीडियो को ध्यान से देखे और फिर तय करें कि हमे शेविंग मुस्लिम से करानी चाहिए… Posted by Hindustanii Patel on Thursday, 6 February 2020 The video is viral on Facebook. Alt News has also received several requests on its official Android application to fact-check this video. With a keyword search (saliva face massage) on YouTube, Alt News found this video posted by a channel named Amazing video on June 6, 2015. One more YouTube channel SibteinTV Official has dubbed the video as “funny”. It was uploaded by the channel on May 30, 2015. This was also shared on Sibtein’s Daily Motion account. According to their description, it’s a prank video. While Alt News couldn’t establish the context of this video, nothing suggests that it was shot at “Salim Hair Saloon” as claimed on social media. Hence, the claim was found to be baseless. A 2015 video is being shared on social media to claim that a Muslim barber massaged a customer’s face with his own saliva in the backdrop of coronavirus pandemic. The message attempts to instil fear among the Hindu community, urging them to boycott Muslim-owned shops. Earlier this week, a video of a Muslim fruit seller licking his fingers while handling the fruits on his cart was also shared with the same claim. However, the video was unrelated to the pandemic and was shot in February 2020. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	8th April 2020 / 8:25 pm / Last updated: 8th April 2020	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2015-video-where-barber-is-massaging-his-customers-face-with-his-own-saliva-shared-to-falsely-target-muslim-community/", "author": "Kinjal" }
46	Old image from Bangladesh viral in India with anti-reservation claim - Alt News Kinjal 7th June 2021 / 9:39 pm A photo of a man in tears has been shared with the claim that he is Rajesh Tiwari, UPSC civil service aspirant and resident of Lucknow. A viral message claims that Tiwari failed the exam despite scoring 643 in the written paper since the cut-off for the General category is 689 this year. On the other hand, the cut-off for the SC/ST category is 601, per the claim. A demand to end reservation in India has been made through this post. Twitter handle @SyntaxErrorism shared the image along with the viral message. (Archive link) He is Rajesh Tiwari, 29, Lucknow. The Only person who earns in the family of Seven Members. He Got 643 Marks in UPSC Civil Services exam this year, But Failed coz Cut Off for General Category was 689 this year. For SC/ST it was 601. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/UH6I9f9iH9 — Syntax Error (@SyntaxErrorism) June 2, 2021 Another user @AdvAshutoshDube also tweeted this picture and accompanying claim. (Archive link) He is Rajesh Tiwari, I am not Against any Caste. I want equality. He Got 643 Marks in the UPSC Civil Services exam this year, But Failed coz Cut Off for Open Category was 689, 3 years ago. For SC/ST it was 601, the one who has got 601 will become our next Bureaucrat? pic.twitter.com/7xxj83sfV1 — ADV. ASHUTOSH J. DUBEY🇮🇳 (@AdvAshutoshDube) June 3, 2021 It is gaining a lot of traction on Twitter and Facebook. We found that the photograph has been circulating online since 2017. Alt News performed a reverse image search and located the original photo on a Bangladeshi website. The individual in the picture has been identified as Saeed Rimon (সাঈদ মন াভ). A subsequent reverse image search with these keywords led us to an article on Bangladeshi news portal Jago News, which said that Rimon has been raising awareness on the prevention of road accidents for the last seven to eight years. He educates school and college students about road accidents and distributes informational pamphlets. The website has carried several other articles about Saeed Rimon. One of these carries a link to his Facebook profile, where he had addressed misinformation surrounding the image. In a June 5 update, he wrote, “This picture was shared on Indian social media and linked to unemployment. I have also been wrongly identified as Rajesh Tiwari.” He had rubbished the viral claim earlier too on June 2. Saeed originally uploaded the image on November 30, 2016, to highlight unemployment in Bangladesh. The image was also posted by a few other Bangladeshi outlets. Dubbed ‘Rajesh Patel’, an old image of a Bangladeshi man named Saeed Rimon is being circulated on Indian social media with a call to end the reservation policy. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	7th June 2021 / 9:39 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2016-image-from-bangladesh-shared-as-rajesh-tiwari-who-failed-in-upsc/", "author": "Kinjal" }
47	Old photo of Asaduddin Owaisi and Smriti Irani falsely viral as BJP-AIMIM 'alliance' - Alt News Anuradha Prasad 2nd December 2020 / 2:08 pm / Last updated: 8th September 2021 National secretary of Congress student wing NSUI, Roshan Lal Bittu, tweeted a photo of AIMIM head Asaduddin Owaisi with Union Minister Smriti Irani and wrote, “Internal Meeting of RSS Propaganda cell”. He further said that Owaisi is the biggest ally of the BJP after Anna Hazare. Internal Meeting of RSS Propaganda cell, lead by Owasi & Smriti Jubin Irani. Here will be decided how to give inflammatory speeches in the name of a particular religion, then the scripts will be distributed. Owaisi is the biggest ally of BJP after Anna Hazare. #UPElections2022 pic.twitter.com/IsEjvm387m — Roshan Lal Bittu 🇮🇳 (@RoshanLalBittu) September 8, 2021 The photo has also been shared on Facebook. Asaduddin Owaisi with Smriti Irani in UP. After Bihar and West Bengal, unofficial leader of BJP, Asaduddin Owaisi, arrives in Uttar Pradesh to help BJP win Election. Posted by Kanwal Chadha on Tuesday, 7 September 2021 The same picture was circulated last year in December during the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) election. Telangana Coordinator of With Congress (the online arm of Congress volunteers) shared the image and wrote, “Owaisi met Smriti Irani. Owaisi asks people to vote for BJP in Lok Sabha elections,” with the hashtag #GHMCElections2020. Alt News has found @SpiritOfCongres spreading false information in the past. Twitter user @WuntakalL also shared this image and wrote, “What is this?”. Her post was shared by more than 500 people and received more than 2,400 likes. (Archive link) Another Twitter user wrote, “Owaisi: Madam I have fielded candidates in 50 seats only as you suggested. Smriti Irani: Well done, I will help you win those 50 seats and you help us win the remaining 100.” (Archive link) Several other users have made the same claim. Alt News also received requests to fact-check the photo on our Whatsapp number (+917600011160) and mobile application recently and back in December as well. When we performed a keyword search on Facebook, we came across a post by user Saujanya Singh in which Irani and Owaisi are seen together. It was uploaded on August 25, 2016. This photo has been taken from a different angle than the viral image, but comparing the two side by side confirms that they were taken on the same occasion. Owaisi bhakt kahenge ki koi meeting karne gaya tha Smriti Irani k saath. Par baat kuch aur hai. Chunav me vote ka batwara. Posted by सौजन्या सिंह on Wednesday, August 24, 2016 Next, a keyword search on Google led us to a tweet by Owaisi dated August 10, 2016. In this tweet, he wrote about a meeting he had with Smriti Irani, then Textile Minister, on issues related to the power loom sector in Maharashtra and the rest of the country. He also shared pictures of the documents presented in this meeting. Met Honorable Min Textiles @smritiirani gave representation reg crisis in power loom sector in Maharashtra & country pic.twitter.com/Z4aYOmLiqY — Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) August 10, 2016 He tweeted two other photos from this dialogue. Both confirm that Smriti Irani was present there as she can be seen in the background. Furthermore, the two leaders are seen in the same clothes as in the viral picture. Apart from this, when we examined Owaisi’s August 2016 tweets using an advanced search on Twitter, we noticed that he had quote-tweeted another user and called out the claim that AIMIM and BJP were in alliance. Your old party MPs didn’t attend powerlooms meeting &UP is on your mind not realising that Weavers in UP r suffering https://t.co/SboO5eBfUI — Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) August 23, 2016 Hindi news portal Patrika also covered this meeting in an article dated August 27, 2016. A journalist and a dilettante person who always strives to learn new skills and meeting new people. Either sketching or working. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	2nd December 2020 / 2:08 pm / Last updated: 8th September 2021	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2016-image-of-smriti-irani-asaduddin-owaisi-shared-as-they-met-before-ghmc-polls-hyderabad/", "author": "Anuradha Prasad" }
48	Photos of BJP West Bengal workers clashing with each other is from 2016 - Alt News Kinjal 22nd March 2021 / 8:18 pm / Last updated: 22nd March 2021 Trinamool Congress (TMC) and BJP have been campaigning ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal. On March 19, Newslaundry reported that BJP workers in West Bengal were dissatisfied with the tickets distribution and angry party workers also vandalized the BJP office. In the backdrop of this, pictures of BJP workers resorting to physical alteration and vandalism inside what looks like a temporary party office has been shared. BJP flags and people sporting party scarves can be spotted. Rohan Gupta, chairman of the social media department of the Congress, tweeted the images and wrote, “BJP workers showing the trailer of Bengal’s golden future!” At the time of writing, his tweet amassed 8,000 likes and around 2,000 retweets. (Archive link) भाजपा के कार्यकर्ता बंगाल के सुनहरे भविष्य का ट्रेलर दिखाते हुए ! pic.twitter.com/9APwAPbbQM — Rohan Gupta (@rohanrgupta) March 19, 2021 Twitter user @i_the_indian_ sarcastically remarked that BJP Bengal workers were practising making the state ‘Sonar Bangla’ from inside the party office. The tweet also carried the hashtag #NoVoteToBJP. Several people in the replies believe that the images are recent. Twitter user Kamesh Shivhare INC also tweeted these photos. The replies to his post too suggest that users are linking them with the upcoming polls. The pictures have also been posted on Facebook with Bengali messages. We found these photos in a tweet dated April 5, 2016, after performing a keyword search on Twitter. According to the tweet, these pictures were taken during a clash between BJP workers in Howrah, West Bengal. BJP workers clash in Howrah at a party workers’ convention for Rupa Ganguly,actress&BJP candidate from Howrah North. pic.twitter.com/toDFHVma6T — Scotchy(Team) (@scotchism) April 5, 2016 A Firstpost report dated March 3, 2016, carries two of the viral images. According to the outlet, a clash broke out between BJP workers in Howrah at a party-wide convention for actress and BJP candidate Rupa Ganguly. The photo has been attributed to PTI. The viral photo was also published in a report in The Times of India report from April 2016. On April 3, 2016, India TV shared video footage of the skirmish. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJmVnaw8KEo] News agency ANI also reported that six people were injured. Howrah (West Bengal): 6 injured after two groups of BJP workers clashed in front of BJP candidate Roopa Ganguly pic.twitter.com/B4eUNVxOVK — ANI (@ANI) April 3, 2016 Therefore, photos of clashes between party workers at a BJP event in Howrah, West Bengal back in April 2016 were shared ahead of the upcoming West Bengal assembly polls. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	22nd March 2021 / 8:18 pm / Last updated: 22nd March 2021	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2016-images-of-clash-in-bjp-party-workers-convention-in-howrah-west-bengal-shared-as-recent/", "author": "Kinjal" }
49	2016 images viral as Congress workers recently thrashed in Punjab - Alt News Pooja Chaudhuri 23rd April 2019 / 2:31 pm A set of photographs are being circulated on social media with the claim that Congress workers were thrashed in Punjab. “ठोको ठोको ताली ठोको (सिद्धू) कांग्रेसियों की धुलाई पंजाब मे 😅😅😅 IPL T20 के छक्के लगे (Clap your hands (Sidhu). Congressi were beaten in Punjab, got IPL sixes),” is the most widely used caption circulated with the images. From a Facebook page मै भी चौकीदार, the post received over 5,000 shares. Individual users on Facebook have also circulated the images (1, 2), drawing thousands of shares. Another claim floating on social media suggests that Congress MP Navjot Singh Sidhu was chased and thrashed by a crowd in Punjab. A Twitter handle, @sir_jenishpatel, was among those who circulated the images. He is followed by BJP Delhi spokesperson Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga and his post received over 500 retweets and more than 700 likes. From what it seems, the photographs are viral on WhatsApp as well. A simple reverse-image search on Google reveals that the images do not pertain to a recent event. The incident took place on September 25, 2016, when a group of around 10 youths, suspected to be Akalis workers, attacked a Congress bike rally in Ajnala, Punjab. Congress party workers had reportedly taken out a rally against drugs. According to Hindustan Times, “…the bike rally, led by District Congress Committee (rural) president Gurjit Singh Aujla, reached the community centre at Guru Ka Bagh. The youths allegedly started beating Congress workers with rods and baseball bats. “The attackers belonged to the ruling party, alleged Aujla in a press conference.” Congress MP Sidhu is not in the photograph. The man on the bike with the pink turban was “Congress (rural) district president Gurjeet Singh Aujla”, per a report by The Tribune. ABP News had also uploaded a video of the brawl. Old images and videos have recently resurfaced on social media with the claim that they represent a recent event. Alt News has debunked several such cases – a video of alleged EVM malfunction during 2017 UP civic polls was viral as that of Lok Sabha elections, a 2017 video from Gujarat was shared as PM Narendra Modi’s rally in Hyderabad, Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s funeral procession was viral as PM Modi filing nomination papers. Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	23rd April 2019 / 2:31 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2016-images-viral-as-congress-workers-recently-thrashed-in-punjab/", "author": "Pooja Chaudhuri" }
50	AIMIM leader Waris Pathan did not threaten cops to open mosques amid lockdown, 2016 video viral - Alt News Kinjal 29th April 2020 / 7:54 pm / Last updated: 1st May 2020 A video of former AIMIM MLA Waris Pathan was shared by BJP MP Arjun Singh with the claim that Pathan is threatening Mumbai police during the lockdown. In the video, Pathan can be heard telling a cop to not disrupt people from offering namaz. “These people have been praying here for the last 40 years. Do not try shutting down the mosque, do not try to shut down the loudspeakers,” he says. Look at the open threat being given by #warispathan to police. And @rautsanjay61 ji of ruling party in Maharashtra was trying to teach @myogiadityanath ji on how to handle law and order. Pehle Mumbai to sambhal lijye!#byculla pic.twitter.com/bughOE3Xq3 — Arjun Singh (@ArjunsinghWB) April 29, 2020 Actor and BJP supporter Payal Rohatgi shared the clip on May 1. Facebook user Ankur Gupta shared the video with the following caption – “#Warispathan…. See their dadagiri with our Coronavirus warriors who is doing their duty towards us to save our lives & these type of mullahs are threatening the police officer who is doing his duty very honestly.” #Warispathan..🐷.. See their dadagiri with our Coronavirus warriors who is doing their duty towards us to save our lives & these type of mullahs are threatening the police officer who is doing his duty very honestly Posted by Ankur Gupta on Tuesday, 28 April 2020 The video is viral on Twitter and Facebook. Alt News has also received multiple fact-check requests on its official mobile application. The viral video carries the words ‘Mumbai Live’ on the top right corner. A keyword search on Youtube – ‘Waris Pathan police Mumbai Live’ – took us to the same video uploaded by the channel on November 18, 2016. The description of the video is as follows – “Video of MIM MLA Waris Pathan abusing police has gone viral. This happened when police asked Pathan to lower down the loud speaker’s voice which did not go well with Pathan and he started abusing the police.” In the complete video, one can hear Pathan asking the cop to let the hospital and mosque function per usual since they have permission till 10 PM. Further in the clip, he addresses the crowd – “You all don’t break law and order. They [police] are not troubling us. They are supporting us. It is our duty to stay within the bounds of law and order.” Mumbai Live had also carried an article on the incident. A YouTube channel AIMIM India had shared the video on November 14, 2016, with the following caption – “Yesterday’s Night Situation was tensed at Byculla due to issue of Loudspeakers at Mosque..Police were harassing locals..AIMIM Byculla MLA Advocate Waris Pathan intervens and solved the issue..Thousands gathered on streets..Thanks to our Brave Daring MLA Waris Pathan.” Pathan took to Twitter to call-out the misinformation. [Thread] Sir @CPMumbaiPolice I would like to bring it to your notice that some people are trying to spread false news in this pandemic by posting 5yrs old video where the issue of loudspeaker was resolved after my timely intervention in the presence of Cops. @asadowaisi (1/2) — Waris Pathan (@warispathan) April 28, 2020 Therefore, BJP MP Arjun Singh targetted AIMIM leader Waris Pathan using an old video. He falsely claimed that Pathan threatened policemen to keep mosques open during the lockdown imposed due to coronavirus outbreak. [Update: Payal Rohatgi’s tweet was added to the report on May 1.] Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The CCTV footage of a man violently flinging a child on the ground has created… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media….	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	29th April 2020 / 7:54 pm / Last updated: 1st May 2020	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2016-video-of-aimim-leader-waris-pathan-arguing-with-cops-shared-as-recent/", "author": "Kinjal" }
51	Old video of ink attack on BJP MP shared as recent amid farmers protest - Alt News Priyanka Jha 29th September 2020 / 8:44 pm / Last updated: 2nd January 2021 A video of ink thrown on a man is getting circulated on social media. It is being claimed that the man is ‘Haryana BJP MP Raj Kumar Saini’. The clip has been linked to the farm bills. किसान_बील_का_पहला_रुझान बीजेपी सांसद सैनी की हरियाणा में मुँह काला करके जूतों से ठुकाई 👇👇😁🤣 pic.twitter.com/FzaEhlZtWH — Jagmohan Kaushal 🏹 (@JagmohanKausha2) January 1, 2021 The same video was widespread in September when the message further stated that news channels will never broadcast these visuals. In the video, a person suddenly walks from the crowd and smears ink on the face of another person who is wearing a headgear. Later in the video, a group can be seen beating the attacker. हरियाणा के जाटों ने बीजेपी सांसद सैनी का मुंह काला करके जूते मारे और ये न्यूज़ किसी चैनल पर ❌ नही दिखाई गई ये है असली आलू से सोना 🤣 pic.twitter.com/EtjMgsU2Q6 — Bandit Queen (@speedytohike) September 26, 2020 It is noteworthy that large-scale farmer protests are ongoing countrywide against the BJP, including in Haryana. The video was also viral on Facebook with the same claim. A Twitter user posted the video with the claim that members of the Jat community in Haryana smeared ink on BJP MP Saini’s face and thrashed him with shoes. The tweet has garnered over 2,000 retweets so far. Jats of Haryana blacken BJP MP Saini and hit by shoes & this news was not shown on any channel. 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/bwsKzHp2m9 — ℠ (@SpiderMan_r) September 26, 2020 A keyword search reveals that the incident took place in 2016. The video was tweeted by the handle ‘Haryana News Line’ on November 5, 2016. Exclusive: कुरुक्षेत्र से भाजपा सांसद राजकुमार सैनी के मुंह पर कालिख लगाने का विडियो आज सामने आया है. आप भी देखिए आखिर हुआ क्या था. pic.twitter.com/HCgz0FUdwo — Haryana Newsline (@HaryanaNewsline) November 5, 2016 At the time, several media outlets like Punjab Kesari, InKhabar, and Amar Ujala had reported on this incident. InKhabar’s report was published on October 16, 2016. Punjab Kesari’s YouTube channel posted the same video on November 7, 2016. “The five men who threw ink on Kurukshetra’s BJP MP Raj Kumar Saini on Sunday, have been booked for attempt to murder. The FIR lodged against them includes Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which invites punishment of up to life imprisonment. Besides Section 307, Sandeep Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Harikesh, Saurav Dhanda and Jitender have also been charged with assault targeted to defame a person and act which could result in communal clashes in the case registered at Kurukshetra’s city police station,” stated a report published by The Times of India on October 18, 2016. Therefore, a 2016 video of an ink attack on then BJP MP Raj Kumar Saini is being shared as recent. She specializes in information verification, examining mis/disinformation, social media monitoring and platform accountability. Her aim is to make the internet a safer place and enable people to become informed social media users. She has been a part of Alt News since 2018. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	29th September 2020 / 8:44 pm / Last updated: 2nd January 2021	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2016-video-of-bjp-leader-rajkumar-sainis-blackeing-face-shared-as-recent/", "author": "Priyanka Jha" }
52	PM Modi's old speech in Goa targeting UPA govt for corruption shared as recent - Alt News Kinjal 22nd January 2022 / 8:21 pm A clip from a speech by prime minister Narendra Modi where he targets the former UPA government for corruption is viral on social media platforms. The footage is being shared as a recent speech in Goa. It is noteworthy that assembly elections will be held in Goa next month. PM Modi can be heard saying in the video, “Those who say ‘We’ll see what happens’ and think they won’t get caught, let me warn you. I will expose all the fraud you have committed from the very beginning, since India’s independence. Those who have dishonest [money], just consider it a piece of paper and don’t think you will get away this time. I will put 1 lakh men to work to uncover your misdeeds if that’s what it takes. This entire racket running in the country must be stopped. People have just started seeing what I’m capable of. They didn’t realise it for so long. But since I doubled down, they get it now. But this is not the end. This is not a full stop. I have many projects in mind to put an end to corruption and dishonesty in this country…I am doing this for the honest people, for the poor people of the country…” Twitter handle ‘@BhagwaHindu21’ posted the video, claiming that the PM’s speech in Goa unnerved Congress ministers. The clip amassed over 12,700 views at the time of writing. गोवा मे आज नरेंद्र मोदी जी का भाषण सुनकर कांग्रेस पार्टी के सारे नेता घबराए ये विडियो कृपया अवश्य देखें। मैं जानता हूं कि मैंने कैसे कैसे लोगो से दुश्मनी मोल ली है पर मुझे कोई फिक्र नहीं है ,मैं भ्रष्ट्राचारियों को खोद कर निकाल लूंगा😊 pic.twitter.com/xsJmYA3zyU — Bhagwa Hindu indu (@BhagwaHindu21) January 19, 2022 A Facebook user shared the clip on a group named ‘Devendra Fadnavis’. In the 3:37-minute video, the prime minister is heard saying ‘Goa’ and ‘people of Goa’ several times. गोवा मे आज नरेंद्र मोदी जी का भाषण सुनकर कांग्रेस पार्टी के सारे नेता घबराए *३ मिनट का वीडियो है कृपया अवश्य देखें। मैं जानता हूं कि मैंने कैसे कैसे लोगो से दुश्मनी मोल ली है पर मुझे कोई फिक्र नहीं है ,मैं भ्रष्ट्राचारियों को खोद कर निकाल लूंगा😊 Posted by Sanjay Fadnavis on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 The video is widespread on Facebook and Twitter with the same claim. While this speech seems to have been made in Goa, it does not appear recent as nobody can be seen wearing masks. We conducted a keyword search on YouTube and found a longer video of a speech PM Modi gave in Goa. It was uploaded by the BJP’s channel on November 13, 2016. The prime minister had come to the state to inaugurate a few projects and also gave a speech at the occasion. Scenes from the viral clip appear in this video after the 59:17 mark. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtgqWWP-mTY?start=3558] This video of the speech was also posted from the prime minister’s YouTube channel. He also shared a short clip on his Twitter handle on November 13, 2016. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95H7VEQIwyY?start=3550] According to a report from 2016, PM Modi was in Goa to lay the foundation stone for the construction of the Greenfield Airport. He gave this speech a few days after demonetization had come into effect. He made an emotional appeal to the public to support demonetization. The prime minister most recently visited Goa in December 2021 during which he gave a speech for Goa Liberation Day. The viral video is, therefore, unrelated to the upcoming elections. It is from 2016. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	22nd January 2022 / 8:21 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2016-video-of-pm-modi-talking-about-corruption-in-upa-viral-in-ahead-of-goa-assembly-election/", "author": "Kinjal" }
53	Old video of Babul Supriyo's convoy attacked shared as Health Minister Harsh Vardhan beaten - Alt News Kinjal 5th October 2020 / 9:26 pm / Last updated: 7th October 2020 A video of a mob beating up a man adorning white clothes is being circulated widely on social media platforms. Several users have claimed that the person being thrashed is Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan. The clip is viral with the message, “The people have had enough. This group is now beating BJP MP Harsh Vardhan with their shoes. (ਲਓ ਭਰਾਵੋ ਕੰਮ ਚਲ ਪਿਆ ਜੁੱਤੀਆਂ ਦਾ BJP ਸੰਸਦ ਹਰਸ਼ਵਰਧਨ ਦੀ ਸੇਵਾ ਕਰਤੀ ਜ਼ਿਮੀਂਦਾਰਾ ਨੇਂ.)” A Facebook user had posted the video with this Punjabi message. It had garnered over 1.34 lakh views at the time of writing. (archived link to the post) ਲਓ ਭਰਾਵੋ ਕੰਮ ਚਲ ਪਿਆ ਜੁੱਤੀਆਂ ਦਾ b j p ਸੰਸਦ ਹਰਸ਼ਵਰਧਨ ਦੀ ਸੇਵਾ ਕਰਨੀ ਜ਼ਿਮੀਂਦਾਰਾ ਨੇਂ Posted by Harjit Nagra on Monday, 28 September 2020 Another Facebook user posted the clip with the same message. His post drew over 7,300 views at the time of writing. (archived version of the post) ਲਓ ਜੀ ਭਰਾਵੋ ਕਿਸਾਨਾਂ ਖਿਲਾਫ ਕਨੂੰਨ ਬਣਾਕੇ BJP ਦੇ ਮੰਤਰੀ ਜੁੱਤੀਆਂ ਖਾਣ ਲੱਗ ਪਏ। BJP ਦੇ ਸੰਸਦ ਮੈਂਬਰ ਹਰਸ਼ਵਰਧਨ ਕਿਸਾਨਾਂ ਕੋਲੋਂ ਮਾਣ ਸੰਮਾਨ ਲੈਂਦੇ ਹੋਏ। Posted by Bagicha Singh Waraich 08872419720 on Monday, 28 September 2020 It has also been widely shared on Facebook since the last few days. Fact-check This video was debunked by Alt News in July 2020 when it was doing the rounds as an attack on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Bihar. But the visuals show an attack on BJP MP Babul Supriyo’s convoy in October 2016 in West Bengal. ABP News had stated in a video report dated October 19, 2016, that the Supriyo’s convoy had been attacked by Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters in Asansol. In a piece dated October 20, 2016, Patrika reported that BJP supporters in the state had beaten several butchers, accusing them of cow smuggling. They planned to protest in front of TMC leader Moloy Ghatak’s house. However, Supriyo was attacked before they could put this in motion. District BJP leader Subrata Mishra was also injured during the ruckus. After the incident, Supriyo took to Twitter accusing TMC leader Ghatak of orchestrating the whole affair. News agency ANI had also reported the incident. West Bengal: Ruckus during Union Minister Babul Supriyo’s visit in Asansol pic.twitter.com/d6Z4N4SefR — ANI (@ANI) October 19, 2016 To sum it up, a video of an attack on BJP leader Babul Supriyo’s convoy from October 2016 has been falsely shared as Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan beaten. In fact, BJP leader Subrata Mishra was also injured in this incident from four years ago. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	5th October 2020 / 9:26 pm / Last updated: 7th October 2020	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2016-video-of-ruckus-during-union-minister-babul-supriyos-visit-shared-as-attack-on-dr-harsh-vardhan/", "author": "Kinjal" }
54	Morphed image: 2017 Times Now graphic edited to show Rahul ahead of Modi - Alt News Kinjal 3rd October 2022 / 6:14 pm Arun Reddy, the social media coordinator of the All India National Congress Committee, tweeted a screengrab taken from the Times Now news channel on September 26. The image features a graphic containing figures for ‘public sentiment’ toward some of the prominent leaders in Indian politics. It contains a comparison of the numbers for key individuals like Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Among them, according to the graphic, Rahul Gandhi leads the pack with 66%. On the other hand, Narendra Modi is seen in the second position with 15%. The image also shows former Times Now anchor Anand Narasimhan as the host of the show. This screenshot is being shared in praise of Rahul Gandhi. It is worth noting that this picture is being shared in the context of Congress’ ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra‘, which began from Kanyakumari on September 7. As part of this initiative, several Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, will campaign for the party across the country. The yatra will conclude in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar after 150 days. However, the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ has been targeted by the opposition since it was kicked off. Readers can find related reports here. The Rajasthan Youth Congress tweeted the image while praising Rahul Gandhi. (Archived link) Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh also retweeted the photo, amplified by Twitter handle ‘@CSBSiinm’. Twitter handle ‘@UnitedWithINC’ also amplified the image. (Archived link) Burnol moment for Bhakt’s#BharatJodoYatra pic.twitter.com/r8dmfcCD8Z — India Against Hate (@UnitedWithINC) September 27, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The screenshot is also widespread on Facebook. It is worth noting that the anchor seen in the screenshot is Anand Narasimhan, who was formerly with Times Now channel. He is currently a senior anchor at News18. Hence, we suspected that the screengrab might be out of date. Next, Alt News performed a reverse image search, which led us to a Times of India article dated December 19, 2017. The report, which also carries footage from Times Now, covers the 2017 Assembly elections held in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. In the video, anchor Anand Narasimhan explains that most of the conversations about Rahul Gandhi are happening on social media. At the same time, 15 percent of people are talking about Prime Minister Modi on social media. The other leaders who appear on the screen are Hardik Patel, former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani. A side by side comparison of the viral image and original screengrab is given below. The differences between the two are clear. The Times of India uploaded the video of this broadcast to YouTube on December 18, 2017. The video report discusses the results of the 2017 Assembly polls held in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOUVFEz1Bzc] The results of the 2017 Assembly elections in Gujarat were declared on December 18, 2017. The BJP secured 99 seats, whereas the Congress won 77 seats. The results of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections were also released on the same day, in which the BJP won 44 seats, and the number of seats that the Congress got was 21. To sum it up, a screengrab of a Times Now broadcast from the 2017 Gujarat-Himachal Assembly elections was edited and falsely shared as recent. Many Congress supporters shared it in praise of Rahul Gandhi. Update: The detail about the image being doctored has been added to this article later. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	3rd October 2022 / 6:14 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-graphic-of-times-now-on-positive-sentiments-for-rahul-gandhi-on-social-media-shared-as-recent/", "author": "Kinjal" }
55	2017 Gujarat video viral as "Rohingyas and Bangladeshi mistreat BJP workers in Bengal" - Alt News Pooja Chaudhuri 26th April 2019 / 6:44 pm A video viral on social media is being circulated with the claim that it depicts “Rohingyas and Bangladeshi refugees” mistreating BJP workers when they passed their settlements in West Bengal. “If you don’t vote for the BJP, this will happen in the entire country very soon,” reads a warning shared along with the clip. 2019 के लोकसभा चुनाव में अगर भारतीय जनता पार्टी का समर्थन नहीं दिया तो यह घटना पूरे भारत में जल्दी देखने को मिलेगा पश्चिम बंगाल मे रोहिंग्या और बांग्लादेशी रिफ्यूजी के बस्तियों से जब भाजपा कार्यकर्ता गुजर रहे थे तब वहां के रहने वाले रोहिंग्या मुसलमान और बांग्लादेशी उनके साथ ऐसा सलूक कर रहे थे Posted by पंडित राम शर्मा – भट्ट ब्राह्मण on Thursday, 25 April 2019 The video has been massively circulated by individual users on Facebook.“2019 के लोकसभा चुनाव में अगर भारतीय जनता पार्टी का समर्थन नहीं दिया तो यह घटना पूरे भारत में जल्दी देखने को मिलेगा पश्चिम बंगाल मे रोहिंग्या और बांग्लादेशी रिफ्यूजी के बस्तियों से जब भाजपा कार्यकर्ता गुजर रहे थे तब वहां के रहने वाले रोहिंग्या मुसलमान और बांग्लादेशी उनके साथ ऐसा सलूक कर रहे थे (If BJP is not re-elected in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, this will happen in the entire country very soon. BJP workers were manhandled in West Bengal when they passed Rohingya and Bangladeshi settlements.),” is the caption used to share the video. It has also been circulated on Twitter. 2019के लोकसभा चुनाव में भारतीय जनता पार्टी का समर्थन नहीं दिया तो यह घटना पूरे भारत में जल्दी देखने को मिलेगा पश्चिम बंगाल मे रोहिंग्या और बांग्लादेशी रिफ्यूजी के बस्तियों से भाजपा कार्यकर्ता गुजर रहे थे तब वहां के रहने वाले रोहिंग्या मुसलमान और बांग्लादेशी ऐसा सलूक कर रहे थे pic.twitter.com/qOFO6Igy55 — अंशुमान सिंह (मै भी चौकीदार हूं) (@Anshuma88368052) April 23, 2019 In the background, some people can be heard talking but the language they speak isn’t Bengali. We found that several people had commented that the video depicts an incident which took place two years ago in Surat. A few others also said that the language spoken in the clip was Kathyawadi, the dialect of the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Upon searching the keywords “BJP rally Surat”, we were directed to YouTube link of ABP News from December 7, 2017, which carried the same video. According to ABP News, BJP workers were manhandled and their caps were flung in the air before prime minister Modi’s rally. Gujarat underwent assembly elections in 2017. The video was initially uploaded by Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mewani. दोस्तों गुजरात का ये वीडियो जरूर देखिये, जनता बीजेपी से इतनी परेशान हो गयी है कि बीजेपी को वोट देना तो साइड में रह जाएगा, जनता बीजेपी कार्यकर्ता के टोपी और स्कार्फ तक निकाल देते है, अगर बीजेपी ने विकास ही किया होता तो उनके कार्यकर्ता का ऐसा स्वागत ना होता। pic.twitter.com/789ptA1O7Y — Jignesh Mevani (@jigneshmevani80) December 8, 2017 An incident from Gujarat was falsely circulated on social media as a case of Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees mistreating BJP workers in Bengal in the recent Lok Sabha elections. Recently, we had debunked a video from Bihar, which was viral as a BJP worker attacked in West Bengal. Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	26th April 2019 / 6:44 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-gujarat-video-viral-as-rohingyas-and-bangladeshi-mistreat-bjp-workers-in-bengal/", "author": "Pooja Chaudhuri" }
56	Visuals from 2017 viral as Punjab CM met Mukesh Ambani amid farmers' protest - Alt News Anuradha Prasad 10th December 2020 / 2:05 pm Several social media users have been sharing a picture and video of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh meeting Mukesh Ambani. They are being circulated with different captions. Many users are accusing Singh of indulging in politics instead of supporting the protesting farmers. On December 7, Facebook page ‘Bhindi Bazaar’ shared this image and wrote, “A day before the Bharat Bandh, Mukesh Ambani met Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh in Mumbai. Mr. Singh has already supported Home Minister Amit Shah’s proposals regarding the farmers’ protests. The Punjab CM said that he had a conversation with Mr. Ambani about industrial and investment projects in Punjab. On the one hand, Congress is supporting the farmers’ protests and the Bharat Bandh and on the other, the CM of Punjab is meeting Ambani. What kind of politics is this?” (Archive link) Bharat Bandh se ek din pehle , aaj MUMBAI main Mukesh Ambani ki Punjab ke CM Capt. Amrinder Singh se mulaqat hui ,… Posted by Bhindi Bazaar on Monday, December 7, 2020 Similarly, several others also shared the video of Singh’s meeting with Ambani. Some alleged that this meeting was regarding the purchase of grain from farmers. Capt Amrinder Singh (Congress CM) meeting Mukesh Ambani in Ambani’s own office to bring Reliance in farm sector to buy crops directly from farmers. When same thing BJP did, they started feeling indigestion. Pundin Hara le lo Posted by Suyash Deep Rai on Monday, December 7, 2020 A few Twitter users also shared this video. (First tweet, second tweet) Capt Amrinder Singh (Congress CM) meeting Mukesh Ambani in his own office to bring Reliance in farm sector to buy crops directly from them. When same thing BJP did, they started feeling indigestion. Pundin Hara le lo #गीता_भाटी_का_सैंडल_वापस_करो pic.twitter.com/so4VoOvPju — Suyash Deep Rai (@suyashdeep) December 7, 2020 Photo Alt News performed a keyword search on Google and found a link to Punjab Chief Minister’s tweet from October 31, 2017. He shared a picture with Mukesh Ambani and wrote that he was hoping to have a discussion about investment and industrial development opportunities for Punjab. Happy to meet Mukesh Ambani Ji in Mumbai. Hope to discuss various investment and industrial development opportunities for Punjab. pic.twitter.com/L3xiiBCZds — Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) October 31, 2017 Hindustan Times had also covered their meeting in a story dated October 31. Video A keyword search on YouTube led us to a video story by Zee Punjab Haryana Himachal (ZPHH). It was uploaded on October 31, 2017, and contains the same visuals which appear in the viral video. We have compared the viral clip and video report below, which confirms that both were taken at the same meeting. Apart from this, a Facebook page called News Hookah also shared the clip on October 31, 2017. Both videos have the same audio. Captain Amarinder Singh meets Mukesh Ambani to discuss #investment in #Punjab Posted by News Hookah on Tuesday, October 31, 2017 Therefore, the video and image in question are both three years old. The accompanying viral claim about Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh meeting Mukesh Ambani amid the ongoing farmer protests is completely false. A journalist and a dilettante person who always strives to learn new skills and meeting new people. Either sketching or working. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	10th December 2020 / 2:05 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-image-and-video-of-punjab-cm-capt-amrinder-singh-and-mukesh-ambani-shared-as-recent-meeting-during-farmer-protest/", "author": "Anuradha Prasad" }
57	Old image of giant sinkhole in the middle of a road in Ahmedabad shared as Varanasi - Alt News Kinjal 23rd August 2020 / 3:38 pm / Last updated: 11th August 2021 A picture of a giant sinkhole in the middle of a road is being shared on social media with the claim that it is from the city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Mahrukh Firdaus sarcastically wrote this is the first ‘underground’ cricket stadium. His post drew 1,000 shares. विश्व का पहला अंडरग्राउंड क्रिकेट स्टेडियम बनारस में बन कर तैयार, वो भी सड़क के बीचों-बीच ! 😂😂😂 Posted by Mahrukh Firdaus on Wednesday, 4 August 2021 It has been shared on several Facebook pages and groups including Samajwadi Digital Force: Mission 2022, Arvind Kejriwal Fans Group and Gulpham Madhopuri Page. The same image was shared last year by Rajesh SP, affiliated with the Samajwadi Party. His post had been retweeted 150 times (archived link to the tweet). Rajesh had also shared this image on his Facebook account claiming this is from UP. दुनिया का पहला इंटरनेशनल अंडरग्राउंड क्रिकेट स्टेडियम अपने भारत मे… जी हां भारत के क्योटो शहर मे पहला इंटरनेशनल अंडरग्राउंड क्रिकेट स्टेडियम सड़क के बीचों-बीच स्थित… आदरणीय श्री @yadavakhilesh जी को इस मामले बाबाजी पीछे कर दिए हैं 🤣#गढ्ढायुक्त_यूपी बाबा ने 13027cr. BJP लूटी pic.twitter.com/gIAfIyUp32 — Rajesh SP (@ARajesh_SP) August 11, 2020 A Facebook page by the name of ‘Naye Bharat ki Buland Awaz’ posted the image claiming that it showed Ahmedabad. The picture is also being shared in the form of a graphic. Its caption states, “The world’s biggest underground stadium is now ready in Varanasi, that too in the middle of the street.” A few other users shared the image on Twitter and Facebook claiming that it was taken in Ahmedabad. After doing a reverse image search, we found that the original image of the sinkhole had been uploaded on July 29, 2017. Sanjeev Bhatt, a former IPS officer from Gujarat, had tweeted the image writing that it was taken in Ahmedabad. Apart from this, Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh had also tweeted this image that same day. Divya Spandana had shared the image on August 7, 2017, stating that it was from Ahmedabad. This morning’s pictures from the smart city of Ahmedabad. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/VXislkEkZr — Sanjiv Bhatt (IPS) (@sanjivbhatt) July 29, 2017 A signboard with the letters ‘AMC’ can be spotted near the sinkhole. ‘AMC’ stands for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. Apart from this, the word ‘danger’ is also written in Gujarati right above it on the same sign. In July 2017, the state of the roadways in Ahmedabad had worsened considerably due to heavy rain. In a video report dated July 23, 2017, The Times of India had reported on the poor condition of the roads in the Vastrapur-IIM area of the city. A local media organisation named VTV Gujarat had also shared a report on the condition of the roads. On June 2 2018, Hindi daily Jagran shared a fact-check report on the same photo. It was being shared as an image of roads in Varanasi back then as well. Alongside the sinkhole, the image of the stadium Rajesh SP had shared was of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee International Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. A picture taken in the city of Ahmedabad after heavy rains in July 2017 was circulated online with the false claim that it showed the dilapidated condition of the roads in Varanasi. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	23rd August 2020 / 3:38 pm / Last updated: 11th August 2021	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-image-of-big-pothole-from-ahmedabad-shared-as-uttar-pradesh/", "author": "Kinjal" }
58	BJP candidate's promise of 'good beef' is from 2017, unrelated to 2021 Kerala polls - Alt News Kinjal 6th March 2021 / 4:51 pm Kerala assembly elections are scheduled to be held from April 6, 2021. Congress leader Salman Nizami tweeted a Hindustan Times article on March 4 which said that the BJP’s candidate has promised good quality beef to voters if elected. BJP candidate in Kerala promises clean, good quality beef to voters. Hypocrisy thy name is BJP. Bhakt log bajav tali 👏🏻 https://t.co/27qb9qUWub — Salman Nizami (@SalmanNizami_) March 4, 2021 Congress national media panellist Szarita Laitphlang also shared the article. Wah re wah….. Gau Mata ki Jai Aap karo toh prachaar Hum karein toh atyachar Look at the hypocrisy of @BJP4India & the filthy game they play it’s called #BeefPolitics. Earlier during #Meghalaya elections @BJP4India reduced the price of beef. https://t.co/d0tfKNsPF1 — Szarita Laitphlang (ज़रिता लैतफलांग) زریتا لیتفلانگ (@szarita) March 4, 2021 Furthermore, a 22-second video of India TV has been circulated on Facebook and Twitter with the same claim. Twitter Handel ‘@nadera_anjum’ tweeted the India TV video and wrote, “Anything for the chair… BJP’s promise in Kerala is – give us vote, we will arrange good beef”. The video was viewed more than 12,000 times as of this writing. कुर्सी के लिए कुछ भी… केरल मे भाजपा का वादा हमें वोट दो हम अच्छे बीफ का इंतजाम करेंगे pic.twitter.com/AH91KoZXPR — ❤⃝🇳aⷶdͩeͤrͬaⷶ ❤⃝ 🇦nᷡjᷯuͧmͫ (@nadera_anjum) March 3, 2021 The broadcast has also been shared with captions in English. BJP is full of Hypocrisy.. BJP Leader in KERALA announced to provide best BEEF to his Voters. BJP kisi ki sagi nhi#लाल_टोपी_वाला_गुंडा #ReleaseRanjitSingh pic.twitter.com/R3bpx8HwDy — ਭੋਲਾ ਲੰਕੇਸਪਤੀ(Rofl Lankesh) (@Aman01632) March 2, 2021 Several users have shared screenshots of the India TV broadcast. गाये के नाम पर लोगों का कत्लेआम करने वालें आज इलेक्शन में बीफ का वादा दे रहे है केरला मे BJP का वादा हम सरकार मे आए तो अच्छा गौ मांस खीलाऐ गे भक्तो अब तो सुधर जाओ गाये के नाम पर लोगो को मारने वाले गाये सिर्फ वोट बैंक के लिए इस्तमाल कराती है अब केरल में गाये माता नहीं है,, 🤷 pic.twitter.com/fHBrd2XBln — 🌹Rayaan🌹 (@Rayaan41) March 2, 2021 Congress leaders shared a four-year-old report by Hindustan Times. It was published on April 30, 2017. “A BJP candidate for the by-election to Kerala’s Muslim-dominated Malappuram parliamentary constituency has promised quality beef for the people if they elect him. Sreeprakash’s poll pledge counterbalances a growing effort in BJP-ruled states to enforce a ban on eating beef and slaughter of cows, considered sacred in Hinduism,” read the report. The India TV broadcast is also from 2017. The part currently viral is aired at the beginning of the broadcast. According to the channel, BJP candidate N Sriprakash in Kerala had promised to supply good beef to people after victory. The report said that on the one hand, BJP is making stringent laws to ban beef, while in Kerala BJP candidates are promising quality beef supply. Screenshots of this broadcast have also been recently revived. According to NDTV, N Sreeprakash, BJP candidate for Mallapuram by-poll, said, “Within limits of law I will ensure clean slaughterhouses and ensure beef,” when asked about beef ban and closure of slaughterhouses in UP and other states. “Do Muslim brothers eat non-halal meat? They don’t eat…I will make sure halal meat is served. I will make sure that abattoirs are good, hygienic and serve halal meat,” he told reporters. BJP candidate’s promise of good quality beef during 2017 Kerala byelections has been recently circulated and linked with the upcoming assembly polls in the state. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	6th March 2021 / 4:51 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-news-of-bjp-candidate-promises-quality-beef-if-elected-shared-as-recent/", "author": "Kinjal" }
59	2017 photo shared as celebration in Wayanad after Rahul Gandhi's poll victory - Alt News Arjun Sidharth 27th May 2019 / 2:58 pm वायनाड में राहुल के जीतने के बाद #जश्न की तश्वीर, फ़ोटो में #तिरंगा ढूंढने बाले को उचित #इनाम की व्यवस्था…(Photo of celebration in Wayanad after Rahul’s win, those who find tiranga in the photo will be given a prize- translation). The above message has gone viral on social media platforms since May 24, along with a photograph of a rally in which numerous green coloured flags can be seen. It has been shared in the Facebook group WE SUPPORT NARENDRA MODI with the message “If they had won everywhere then Pakistani flags would be seen in India, even after such humiliation you are mindless”(translated), apart from the group I AM WITH PM MODI AND YOU? and the page Begusarai Zee News. The group has over 29 lakh members and has been found to spread misinformation in the past. The picture has gone viral on Twitter where it has been shared widely in the last 24 hours. वायनाड में राहुल के जीतने के बाद जश्न की तश्वीर, फ़ोटो में तिरंगा ढूंढने बाले को उचित इनाम की व्यवस्था। सोचो यदि ये जीत जाता तो भारत मे क्या होता?#DeshKaGauravModi 🇮🇳🇮🇳⛳️⛳️ pic.twitter.com/hRPs2rQjAK — $H®Ut!™ (@sirfshruti) May 24, 2019 Alt News reverse searched the image on Google and found that it was taken in 2017. We found the same photograph in an article by The Hindu published on April 17, 2017. According to the report, the people seen in the photograph are workers of the Indian Union Muslim League, a political outfit based in Kerala. The workers were celebrating a bypoll victory. By-election had taken place on the Malappuram Lok Sabha seat on April 12, 2017 in which IUML leader P N Kunhalikutty had emerged victorious. The IUML flag has often been passed off as the national flag of Pakistan. As recently as April 2019, IUML flags at Rahul Gandhi’s pre-nomination roadshow were falsely claimed to be Pakistani flags. Both flags- IUML and Pakistan, are green in colour. The similarity however ends there. The two banners have been juxtaposed and posted below for comparison. An old photograph of a political rally, dating back to 2017 has been shared as a recent image, with the false claim that it represents celebration in Wayanad following Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha victory from there. Arjun Sidharth is a writer with Alt News. He has previously worked in the television news industry, where he managed news bulletins and breaking news scenarios, apart from scripting numerous prime time television stories. He has also been actively involved with various freelance projects. Sidharth has studied economics, political science, international relations and journalism. He has a keen interest in books, movies, music, sports, politics, foreign policy, history and economics. His hobbies include reading, watching movies and indoor gaming. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	27th May 2019 / 2:58 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-photo-shared-as-celebration-in-wayanad-after-rahul-gandhis-poll-victory/", "author": "Arjun Sidharth" }
60	2017 video from Bangladesh shared with false claim of Hindu lynched by Muslims - Alt News Pooja Chaudhuri 27th June 2019 / 6:59 pm / Last updated: 27th June 2019 A video shared by several social media users claims to depict the lynching of a Hindu man by members of the Muslim community. “मरने वाला हिन्दू और मारने वाला मुसलमान है… शायद इसलिए बुद्धिजीवियों की नजर में ये लिंचिंग नहीं है (The one who died is Hindu and the one who killed him is Muslim. Perhaps this is why intellectuals did not see this lynching.)” – tweeted Pushpendra Kulshrestha (@Nationalist_Om). क्या ये लिंचिंग नहीं है??? मरने वाला हिन्दू और मारने वाला मुसलमान है… शायद इसलिए बुद्धिजीवियों की नजर में ये लिंचिंग नहीं है😡 pic.twitter.com/jGUlkPpbpA — Pushpendra Kulshrestha (@Nationalist_Om) June 25, 2019 Kulshrestha has been found circulating several cases of misinformation recently – video of a man offering Namaz on Malaysian road was falsely portrayed to be from India; a photo of a young girl from a 2017 BBC footage on Rohingyas was shared with a false and communal claim. Several other users have shared the same video tweeted by Kulshrestha. मरने वाला हिन्दू और मारने वाला मुसलमान है. तो इसे बुद्धिजीवी गैंग, लिंचिंग नही कहेगी देखिए pic.twitter.com/6lGLUo0p2m — नैना 100%fb (@Bharati0162) June 25, 2019 It was also circulated by many on Facebook. The video actually depicts a 2017 incident from Bangladesh. On April 1, 2017, assailants killed Abu Syed and seriously injured Md Ali. The two men were accused in the murder of Jubo League leader Monir Hossain Sarkar and were absconding. This incident occurred in Titas subdivision of Comilla district in Bangladesh and was also covered by local news website called Comilla-r-Kagoj which translates to ‘Comilla’s Newspaper’ in English. Another Bangladeshi news portal Jagonews24.com talks about the incident in a March 2018 article about political murders in Titas. The report says that Sarkar was shot dead on November 8, 2016, in Gouripur Bazar. Six months later, his supporters sought revenge for the murder and hacked to death Abu Syed and Md Ali. Alt News contacted Bangladeshi journalists from Comilla district who corroborated the events and confirmed that the video pertains to the lynching of Md Ali and Abu Syed. The attack was sparked by internal conflicts between different factions of Jubo League, the youth wing of the ruling Awami League. Monir Hussain Sarkar was the then Ziarkandi Union Parishad chairman under Titas Upazila and Upazila Jubo League secretary. Md Ali and Abu Syed, who were killed for his murder, were also Jubo League members. A video of the incident was uploaded on YouTube on April 2, 2017. This shows the same scenes as in the video currently viral. https://youtu.be/jRsWii0QYV4 Alt News has debunked this video several times in the past when it was viral as Hindu killed by Muslims in West Bengal and Bihar. In May 2017, it was also viral as Kashmiri students killing a CRPF jawan. Recently, several videos from around the world – Sri Lanka. Malaysia, Guatemala – were shared on Indian social media with a false and communal narrative. Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	27th June 2019 / 6:59 pm / Last updated: 27th June 2019	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-video-from-bangladesh-shared-with-communal-spin-on-social-media/", "author": "Pooja Chaudhuri" }
61	2017 video from Gujarat shared as PM Narendra Modi's rally in Hyderabad - Alt News Arjun Sidharth & Priyanka Jha 17th April 2019 / 9:53 pm ओबेसी ने मोदी जी को ललकारा दम है तो हैदराबाद में रैली करके दिखाओ, ज़बाब में मोदी जी जो अधिकांश जगहों पर तो सुरक्षित कार से रैली करते है पर हैदराबाद में पैदल रैली निकाल कर सबकी बोलती बंद कर दी। (Owaisi challenged Modi ji saying if you have guts come to Hyderabad and do a rally, in response Modi ji, who would conduct a rally from his car at certain places, has shut everyone up by taking out a rally on foot in Hyderabad- translation). Along with the above message, a video has been shared widely on social media platforms. The video shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi walking down a street flanked by cheering citizens. The duration of the video clip is 30 seconds. It has been claimed that the video is from Hyderabad. ओबेसी ने मोदी जी को ललकारा दम है तो हैदराबाद में रैली करके दिखाओ, ज़बाब में मोदी जी जो अधिकांश जगहों पर तो सुरक्षित कार से रैली करते है पर हैदराबाद में पैदल रैली निकाल कर सबकी बोलती बंद कर दी। pic.twitter.com/y55MRJFUgU — Ashok65 chowkidar (@Ashok6510) April 16, 2019 The above tweet by a user Ashok65 Chowkidar has been retweeted almost 1400 times since it was tweeted on April 16. A facebook page Being Namo has posted this video on April 16, it received over 342,000 views. Posted by Being Namo on Tuesday, 16 April 2019 On Facebook, several users have shared the video and copy pasted the text on their timelines. This suggests that the video and message are being shared on WhatsApp as well. The claim that the video is from Hyderabad is false. It is actually from Gujarat and was taken in December 2017 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had arrived in Ahmedabad to cast his vote for the assembly election. PM Modi had voted at Ranip in Sabarmati, following which he had conducted what the opposition called a ‘roadshow’, alleging violation of the Model Code of Conduct. The event was expectedly covered by the media. There are several news reports available on YouTube. Alt News found that the same video clip was posted back in December 2017 by a pro-Modi Twitter user, when PM Modi had cast his vote in Ahmedabad. See the LION (#Modi ) walking after cast his vote in Ahmedabad#ModiWaveInGujarat pic.twitter.com/k7ETNaLz4E — Chowkidar Dipti Dange (@diptidange) December 14, 2017 Moreover, it is rather evident from the video itself that it cannot pertain to a recent event. PM Modi is seen flashing his inked finger in front of the crowd. This suggests that the video is old, since the Prime Minister is not registered as a voter in Hyderabad, if at all one were to believe the claim. A video of December 2017 from Gujarat has been shared as PM Narendra Modi’s rally in Hyderabad. This is a false claim. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	17th April 2019 / 9:53 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-video-from-gujarat-shared-as-pm-narendra-modis-rally-in-hyderabad/", "author": "Arjun Sidharth & Priyanka Jha" }
62	2017 video from Rajasthan viral in the backdrop of Delhi police's recent clash with Sikh driver - Alt News Arjun Sidharth 29th June 2019 / 7:17 pm / Last updated: 29th June 2019 “राजिस्थान मे सिखों को गाड़ियो मे से उत्तार उतार कर मार रहे हैं #Rajasthan“( Sikhs in Rajasthan are being forced out of their vehicles and beaten up- translation). The above message accompanies a video in which a mob can be seen beating up men in turban. The video is 1:33 minutes long and has been circulated on WhatsApp. It may be noted that earlier this month, videos of Delhi police personnel thrashing a Sikh tempo driver in the capital had gone viral on social media. It is in this context that the above video has been circulated. The video has been uploaded on Twitter as well. अब सिखों की मोब लीनचिंग 😡😡 राजस्थान मे सिखों को गाड़ियो मे से उतार उतार कर मार रहे हैं भगवा आतंकवादी#MobLynching#NoToJaiShreeRam #notmypm @naturopathsk @sarchana1016 @RpoSadakBejan1 @Optimuspanky @666ks666 @AzizKavish @Scimitar_SS @PoliceRajasthan @SandeepRayat9 pic.twitter.com/KFQjH1U2B1 — HAARP Scientist⚡#freeenergy4all (@HAARP_Scientist) June 28, 2019 The same is the case with Facebook, where only one instance of this video being present was found. The incident depicted in the video had taken place in 2017 at Ajmer in Rajasthan. According to a report by DNA, the video was purportedly shot on April 24, 2017 and the incident occurred at Chainpura. The men seen beaten up were sevadars (volunteers) at a Gurudwara in Alwar, and were accused of molesting the women of Chainpura. The report adds that the police had taken them into custody but later released them saying they were not involved in molestation. The video had gone viral in 2017. A video report by NDTV India regarding this incident has been posted below. It may be reiterated that the video in question represents an incident that occurred in 2017 in Ajmer, Rajasthan. Arjun Sidharth is a writer with Alt News. He has previously worked in the television news industry, where he managed news bulletins and breaking news scenarios, apart from scripting numerous prime time television stories. He has also been actively involved with various freelance projects. Sidharth has studied economics, political science, international relations and journalism. He has a keen interest in books, movies, music, sports, politics, foreign policy, history and economics. His hobbies include reading, watching movies and indoor gaming. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	29th June 2019 / 7:17 pm / Last updated: 29th June 2019	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-video-from-rajasthan-viral-in-the-backdrop-of-delhi-polices-clash-with-sikh-driver/", "author": "Arjun Sidharth" }
63	Video of students expelled for cheating during Bihar Board Exam is from 2017 - Alt News Kinjal 8th February 2021 / 5:17 pm The Class 12 board exams have been underway in Bihar since February 1. On February 5, Navbharat Times reported that 22 students from Nawada were expelled for cheating. Meanwhile, a video has gone viral on social media, purportedly showing students being removed from the examination hall for cheating during the exams. In the clip, police personnel can be seen escorting some female students into a vehicle. The Hindi text in the video reads, “Bihar Board expelled students”. Facebook page ‘Gopalganj News’ shared the visuals with this claim. The clip had amassed over 4,400 views at the time of writing. (Archive link) Bihar board expelled Students Today Bihar board expelled Students Today Posted by Gopalganj news on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 ‘Voice of Magadh’, another Facebook page, also posted this video with the same claim. (Archive link) Bihar board expelled students Bihar board expelled students Posted by Voice of Magadh on Thursday, February 4, 2021 It has also been shared on YouTube and Facebook with the same claim. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn6Y3nEUu5A] Alt News performed a keyword search and found the original clip was uploaded on YouTube on February 17, 2017. The description mentions that the video is from Seth Sagarmal College in Nawada, where 34 girls were expelled from the intermediate exam. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRpIj_5A_bU] Furthermore, a keyword search on Facebook led us to a post dated February 16, 2017 which also says that the video is from Nawada’s Seth Sagarmal Aggarwal College. According to a PTI report, “In Nawada district around 32 girl examinees were caught cheating in centre number 2311 at Seth Sagar Mal Aggarwal Women college in the first sitting of Physics examination, the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) statement said.” It further states that “a total of 360 examinees, many of them girls, were expelled across the state for using unfair means in the Intermediate examination today (February 16, 2017).” After the students were found cheating, BSEB chairman Anand Kishor cancelled the intermediate examination centre at Seth Sagarmal Agrawal Mahila College in Nawada district, reported The Times of India. St Joseph School was made the new examination centre. Therefore, female examinees were removed from an examination centre in Nawada after being caught cheating in 2017. A video of this incident was falsely shared on social media as recent. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	8th February 2021 / 5:17 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-video-of-bseb-expelled-students-for-cheating-shared-as-recent/", "author": "Kinjal" }
64	Prasar Bharati, DD News tweet 2017 video as flooding due to Cyclone Nivar in Chennai's Marina beach - Alt News Aqib Pathan 26th November 2020 / 1:50 pm Tropical Cyclone Nivar made landfall near Puducherry in the early hours of November 26, bringing heavy downpour to the union territory and neighbouring Tamil Nadu where three people have died. Prasar Bharati News shared a video from their official Twitter handle claiming it shows Marina beach in Chennai underwater due to heavy rain. (Archive link) Marina beach in Chennai underwater as Chennai is receiving incessant rain. pic.twitter.com/SPTdHZVFM0 — Prasar Bharati News Services पी.बी.एन.एस. (@PBNS_India) November 25, 2020 DD News Malayalam retweeted this video while reporting that Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka have issued a high alert. (Archive link) നിവാർ ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റ് അടുത്ത 12 മണിക്കൂറിനുള്ളിൽ അതിതീവ്ര ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റായി മാറുമെന്ന് മുന്നറിയിപ്പ്. തമിഴ്നാട്, പുതുച്ചേരി, ആന്ധ്രാപ്രദേശ്, തെലങ്കാന, കർണാടക തുടങ്ങിയ സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങൾ അതീവ ജാഗ്രതാ നിർദ്ദേശം നൽകി. ദുരന്ത നിവാരണ സേനയുടെ 22 ടീമുകളെ വിവിധ സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങളിലേക്ക് അയച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. https://t.co/KyXNJOlfAL — DD News Malayalam (@DDNewsMalayalam) November 25, 2020 DD News Andhra also shared this video on its official Facebook page. (Archive link) Marina beach in Chennai underwater as Chennai is receiving incessant rain. Posted by DDNewsAndhra on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 The clip has been circulated on Facebook and Twitter by individual users as well. A keyword search on Facebook in Tamil ‘மெரீனா கடற்கரை’ (Marina Beach) led us to a Facebook post where the same video was shared on November 3, 2017. We subsequently looked for the video on Youtube and saw that the clip was uploaded by a verified channel ‘New Waves’ that same day. It uploaded a collage of pictures and videos of flood-affected area in Chennai where the video was also attached. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW2yAkT5DDA] The coast of marina beach was severely affected due to heavy rainfall in November 2017. Visuals from the time show small shops submerged in the water. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K2BXJ11NmM] On November 5, 2017, Deccan Chronicle reported that the death toll crossed 10 as thousands took refuge in relief camps. Marina beach was inundated due to incessant downpour. All roads leading to Marina beach have also been temporarily closed in the ongoing severe cyclonic storm Nivar. Prasar Bharti shared a three-year-old video of flooding in Chennai’s Marina beach as recent. This was amplified by DD News. Aqib is monitoring and researching mis/disinformation at Alt News Inter-faith relationships between Hindu women and Muslim men have been a sore point for the… Right after Elon Musk took over the reins of microblogging site Twitter, the organization carried… A six-second-long clip of a civilian slapping French President Emmanuel Macron while he is interacting… Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was allegedly shot at during a rally in Wazirabad… In a now-deleted article titled “दीप प्रज्ज्वलन के वैज्ञानिक और आध्यात्मिक पक्ष, जानें ये है…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	26th November 2020 / 1:50 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-video-of-flooded-marina-beach-chennai-shared-as-cyclone-nivar-by-dd-news-and-prasar-bharti/", "author": "Aqib Pathan" }
65	Old video of French Pres Macron egged viral amid remarks on Islam after teacher's killing - Alt News Kinjal 29th October 2020 / 8:23 pm Recently, a clip of an egg thrown at French president Emmanuel Macron has been going viral. Several users shared the video claiming that the incident is recent. It is being linked to the backlash faced by Macron after his condemnation of the Islamic religion following the murder of a teacher in Paris. On October 16, middle school teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by a Moscow-born teenager. Macron who had earlier said that migrants arriving in the country would have to respect the French “right to blaspheme” has come out stronger in his criticism of Islam. A Facebook page named ‘Ilyas Sharafuddin Slave Of Allah’ shared the video and wrote, “An egg was thrown at the French head of state.” This video had received over 89,000 views at the time of writing. (archived link) France Ke Sadar Ke Sar Per Anda Phoota … ILYAS SHARAFUDDIN SLAVE OF ALLAH France Ke Sadar Ke Sar Per Anda Phoota … ILYAS SHARAFUDDIN SLAVE OF ALLAH Posted by Ilyas Sharafuddin Slave Of Allah on Monday, 26 October 2020 Another Facebook page, ‘Sajid Hashmat’, posted the video on October 26, accusing Macron of disrespecting the Prophet. The accompanying caption read, “Kudos to the thrower’s perfect aim.” (archived link) फ्रांस में ही गुस्ताख ए रसूल फ्रांस के राष्ट्रपति #EmmanuelMacron के सिर पर अंडा फेंक कर मारा गया । सटीक निशाना लगाने वाले को करोड़ों सलाम। Posted by Sajid Hashmat on Monday, 26 October 2020 Twitter user @speedytohike tweeted this clip with the same claim. (archived link) फ्रांस में इमैनुअल मैक्रोन पर अंडा फेक के मारा गया 👇#फ्रांस_माफी_मांग pic.twitter.com/SEABdAEexh — Bandit Queen (@speedytohike) October 27, 2020 The video has since been spreading wildely on both Twitter and Facebook. It was also covered by Pakistani news portal Baaghi TV in a report from October 27. Macron EGGED by a protestor, video went viralhttps://t.co/6xe50u5wlt#International #EmmanuelMacron #Egged #boycottfrance #boycottfrenchproducts #Emmanuel_Macron #TwitterSuspendMarcoAccount @EmmanuelMacron — Baaghi TV باغی ٹی وی (@BaaghiTV) October 26, 2020 Alt News performed a keyword search and found the source clip on YouTube, uploaded on March 2, 2017. The video description mentions that then-presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was egged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVp3UM8aDXw&feature=emb_logo We also found a report by the British newspaper Daily Express dated March 1, 2017. It says that Macron came to attend an agricultural show in Paris. He was the Commerce Minister at the time and was contesting the upcoming presidential elections. A few eggs were thrown at him while interacting with the public. His guards rushed for cover and began searching for the attacker. Russian media outlet Ruptly posted a video from another angle. Therefore, a three-year-old video of Emmanuel Macron egged was shared as recent and falsely linked to the French President’s comments on Islam in response to the Paris beheading. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	29th October 2020 / 8:23 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-video-of-french-president-emmanuel-macron-having-an-egg-thrown-at-his-face-shared-as-recent-protest-against-him/", "author": "Kinjal" }
66	Fact-check: Were Ujjain youth forced to chant 'Pakistan Murdabad' after alleged pro-Pak slogans? - Alt News Kinjal 28th August 2021 / 3:52 pm / Last updated: 28th August 2021 A video of a group of boys being beaten and forced to chant ‘Pakistan Murdabad’ is making the rounds on social media. It is being claimed that people who raised slogans of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ in Ujjain were made to chant ‘Pakistan Murdabad’. A Facebook page called ‘Goga Jaharveer Chandigarh’ posted this video with the same claim. Readers should note that MP police arrested 10 Muslim youths for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans during a Taziya function on August 19. Alt News had published a report on viral videos of the function where ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ chants cannot be heard. उज्जैन में कल नारे लगा रहे थे पाकिस्तान मुर्दाबाद, आज उनका टाइटल वायरल हो गया, की नारे लगाने का हर्ष क्या होता है,👌👌 Posted by गोगा जहारवीर चंडीगढ़ on Tuesday, August 24, 2021 A Facebook user named Sukhram Mori also shared the footage and accompanying claim. The clip is widespread on Facebook and has made its way to Twitter as well. We performed a keyword search and found the original video on Youtube. It was uploaded on April 16, 2017. According to the caption, the Indian army had allegedly beaten up Kashmiri youths and forced them to chant ‘Pakistan Murdabad’. Another keyword search led us to media reports from 2017. One such article by ScoopWhoop dated April 15, 2017 stated that two videos of Indian army soldiers allegedly thrashing Kashmiri youths had gone viral on social media. Following this, the then chief minister Mehbooba Mufti asked for a detailed inquiry into the incident. This story includes a tweet by Kashmiri journalist Ahmer Khan dated April 15, 2017, in which the footage was shared. Indian army beat Kashmiri youth & force them to shout anti-Pakistan slogans inside an army vehicle in #Kashmir‘s Pulwama. pic.twitter.com/nSAqvRrEJv — Ahmer Khan (@ahmermkhan) April 15, 2017 The Indian Express published an article on the incident on April 15, 2017. The report quoted the then defence spokesperson Col. Rajesh Kalia who said that the veracity of the videos was being ascertained and action would be taken against those found guilty of misconduct. A four-year-old video of Indian army soldiers allegedly beating up Kashmiri youths and forcing them to chant ‘Pakistan Murdabad’ was falsely shared as recent and linked to an unrelated incident from Ujjain. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The CCTV footage of a man violently flinging a child on the ground has created… A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	28th August 2021 / 3:52 pm / Last updated: 28th August 2021	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-video-of-kashmir-pakistan-murdabad-slogans-viral-as-ujjain-incident-false-claim/", "author": "Kinjal" }
67	Video of protest against Baba Ramdev's Rajasthan visit is from 2017 - Alt News Kinjal 5th October 2021 / 12:55 pm A purported video of angry locals raising slogans against Baba Ramdev allegedly at Jodhpur airport has been circulating widely on social media. It is claimed that the sloganeering was so fierce that it forced the Patanjali founder had to leave. Deepak Jain, Social Media District Convenor of Youth Congress from Damoh in Madhya Pradesh, made the same claim while tweeting this video. It received more than 21,000 views at the time of writing. (Archive link) जोधपुर में बाबा राम देव के खिलाफ लगे नारे, एयरपोर्ट से ही वापिस लौटना पड़ा! pic.twitter.com/sLVB8zmmCi — Deepak Jain (@Deepakjainiyc) October 3, 2021 The clip is widespread on Twitter. The video is also garnering a lot of traction on Facebook. जोधपुर में बाबा के खिलाफ लगे नारे अब क्यों नहीं बोलते कालेधन और महंगाई के खिलाफ, UPA के टाइम पर कालेधन के खिलाफ रामदेव बाबा ने बेडा उठाया था, रामदेव को एयरपोर्ट से ही वापिस लौटना पड़ा … Posted by Badaldas B on Thursday, September 30, 2021 Alt News performed a keyword search and discovered that this video has been in circulation since 2017 with the same claim. We found its oldest iteration in a tweet dated September 27, 2017. A handle named ‘@Jalawat63615356’ posted this video on September 27, 2017, at 7:56 AM. जोधपुर में बाबा रामदेव के खिलाफ नारेबाजी की बाबा रामदेव के सामने pic.twitter.com/Ah0gaAhthv — Ak Jalawat (@Jalawat63615356) September 27, 2017 On September 28, 2017, Jansatta published an article about the incident. According to the report, Ramdev had arrived in Alwar, Rajasthan to inaugurate Patanjali Village Industries on September 27. As soon as he left the airport, he was greeted by widespread opposition, forcing him to go back inside. An Amar Ujala article dated September 28, 2017, stated that Congress workers held a demonstration at the airport opposing Baba Ramdev’s visit. YouTube channels News World India and SPN9NEWS Saamajik Aina also aired the clip on October 1, 2017. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_wdZRWX9b0] A four-year-old video of a protest against Baba Ramdev’s visit to Rajasthan was falsely shared as a recent. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	5th October 2021 / 12:55 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-video-of-protest-against-baba-ramdev-at-airport-shared-as-recent/", "author": "Kinjal" }
68	Old video falsely linked to Barauni Refinery blast in Bihar; no deaths - Alt News Abhishek Kumar 20th September 2021 / 3:06 pm On September 16, 19 people, including five refinery workers and 14 contract workers, were injured when a furnace in the AVU-1 unit exploded at the Barauni Refinery in Begusarai. Following the incident, a video of flames rising from an industrial area is being circulated on social media. It is being claimed that these visuals were taken during the blast at the refinery. Sharing the clip on Facebook, Bihar State Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Awadhesh Kumar demanded the best possible treatment for the injured and an inquiry into the incident. (Link to the post) Awadhesh Kumar also amplified this video from his Twitter account. His post was retweeted by the official handle of the CPI (M) Bihar State Committee. (Archive link) Den News Angpradesh posted this video on their Facebook page as breaking news of the Barauni Refinery accident. It racked up more than 35,000 views and more than 500 shares as of this writing. Facebook user Deepak Kumar received over 12,000 views and 1,000 shares for the video. Insider Live along with a Facebook page named Sheikhpura News carried the clip with the same message. Similarly, this video was promoted by the Facebook pages of several local news outlets including Koshi Live 24, Madhubani Laukahi Live, The Vaishali Express, Rashtriya TV along with numerous users. We performed a reverse image search of a frame from the viral video, which led us to the original video on LinkedIn. It was posted three years ago by a user named Mohammad Albuzaid. The original Arabic caption accompanying it reads, “Industrial accidents can cause a lot of damage. It is not wise to wait for a disaster to happen.” (Archive link) We performed a reverse image search of a frame from this clip using Yandex. This led us to the original video that had been uploaded by a Facebook page on May 21, 2017. Following a few more keyword searches, we also found the same video on YouTube uploaded on May 24, 2017. These visuals have been on the internet since 2017 therefore, cannot represent the recent accident at the Barauni Refinery. We examined the official IOCL website for more information and found a press release dated September 16, 2021 issued by the organisation. It stated that there had been no fire or death from the furnace blast. Alt News can confirm that the video in question is at least four years old and has nothing to do with the Barauni Refinery explosion. Abhishek is a senior fact-checking journalist and researcher at Alt News. He has a keen interest in information verification and technology. He is always eager to learn new skills, explore new OSINT tools and techniques. Prior to joining Alt News, he worked in the field of content development and analysis with a major focus on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	20th September 2021 / 3:06 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-video-shared-as-bihar-barauni-refinery-blast/", "author": "Abhishek Kumar" }
69	Old video of accidental fire falsely linked to Jio cell towers vandalised by farmers - Alt News Kinjal 4th January 2021 / 10:54 am A TikTok video of a cell tower on fire has been viral on social media for the past few days. Several users are linking this clip to the ongoing farmers’ protests. Farmers vandalised 1,500 Jio cell towers in Punjab on December 29, 2020, venting anger against Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance which they believe to benefit out of the farm laws. A Facebook page titled ‘Kisan Ekta Morcha’ posted the clip claiming that it shows one such tower. It received over 14,000 views at the time of writing. (Archive link) #जियो का टावर जलाया गया Kisan Ekta Morcha हिंसा की निंदा करता है Posted by Kisan Ekta Morcha on Monday, December 28, 2020 Twitter user @IncKinju tweeted the video and accompanying claim, where it received more than 5,600 views at the time of writing. (Archive link) अभी तो @narendramodi के मालिक अंबानी सिर्फ़ टॉप 10 से बाहर हुआ है और अगर ‘होली’ तक #किसान_आंदोलन चलता रहा तो उसका दिवाला निकल जायेगा। pic.twitter.com/3xKUrjN1hJ — Kinju_inc (@IncKinju) December 28, 2020 Another Facebook page named ‘A.H. Khan’ also shared this video. It was viewed more than 1,300 times at the time of writing. (Archive link) 😝😜 जियो का टावर किया स्वाहा😝😜😜😜 Posted by 𝐀.𝐇.𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧 on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 This clip is viral on Facebook. First of all, these visuals cannot be recent because this is a TikTok video. The central government banned the mobile application back in June 2020. Alt News performed a reverse image search of a few frames of the video and found an Amar Ujala report dated June 28, 2017. It says that the incident occurred in Dehradun. It also includes some other photos of the cell tower. The article states, “A fire broke out at the cell tower installed on the roof of Shakti Kumar Mehta, a resident of Ankitpuram’s GMS Road. The fire broke out at around five in the morning on Wednesday. The flames quickly grew prompting those in the neighbourhood to come out of their houses. They feared that the tower would fall and called the fire station. Fire engines quickly reached the spot and they extinguished the blaze. According to the Fire Department, the fire occurred due to a short circuit.” News18 Hindi also did a video story about this fire on June 29, 2017. Therefore, social media users falsely linked a June 2017 clip of a burning cell tower in Dehradun to the farmers’ protests. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	4th January 2021 / 10:54 am	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-video-shared-with-false-claim-that-farmers-burn-jio-towers-during-protest/", "author": "Kinjal" }
71	2017 video viral as BJP minister thrashed and chased away while asking for votes - Alt News Pooja Chaudhuri 2nd April 2019 / 7:17 pm “वोट मांगने आये बीजेपी नेता को लोगों ने दैड़ा – दौड़ा कर पीटा (People chased and beat up BJP minister who came asking for votes),” was the caption used to circulate a video where BJP members can be seen getting beat up by a crowd of people. From a Facebook page Akhilesh Yadav-The Lion, the video was shared over 8,000 times and had over 1.6 lakh views at the time of writing this report (archive). वोट मांगने आये बीजेपी नेता को लोगों ने दैड़ा – दौड़ा कर पीटा ।इसे कहते है हाथ की सफाई.. 😂😂😂 Posted by Akhilesh Yadav-The Lion on Wednesday, 20 March 2019 From another Facebook page Viral Story Insight, the video attracted 78,000 views and over 4,000 shares (archive). वोट मांगने आये बीजेपी नेता को लोगों ने दैड़ा – दौड़ा कर पीटा Posted by Viral Story Insight on Wednesday, 20 March 2019 The footage viral on social media does not represent a recent event. It dates back to 2017 when BJP West Bengal President Dilip Ghosh was chased and heckled in Darjeeling. The incident was reported across media platforms, including ABP News that ran the same clip which is currently viral. A BJP delegation led by the party President was visiting the city after a 104-day strike for a separate Gorkhaland state was withdrawn by GJM. Ghosh was in Darjeeling on October 5, 2017, when he was allegedly thrashed by supporters of GTA chairman Binay Tamang. The video viral on social media, thus, has nothing to do with the coming elections but represents a two-year-old unrelated event. Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	2nd April 2019 / 7:17 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-video-viral-as-bjp-minister-thrashed-and-chased-away-while-asking-for-votes/", "author": "Pooja Chaudhuri" }
72	Old videos from J&K shared as stone-pelting in Rajasthan - Alt News Kinjal 9th October 2021 / 7:49 pm Two videos that show a mob allegedly pelting stones at men in police uniforms are being circulated widely with the claim that the incident is from Rajasthan. It is noteworthy that a mob attacked police officers by throwing stones at them in Jaipur a few days ago. The videos are being linked to the same incident. First video Facebook user ‘Kanhai Kanhai’ shared the clip where some members of the mob can be heard chanting ‘Allah-hu-Akbar’. राजस्थान कश्मीर कब बना मालूम ही नही चला। कल जयपुर में हुआ है, आप इसके चपेट में कब आने वाले है,खुद ही तय कर लो । Posted by Kanhai Kanhai on Friday, October 1, 2021 Another Facebook user also posted the visuals and accompanying claim. राजस्थान कश्मीर कब बना मालूम ही नही चला। कल जयपुर में हुआ है, आप इसके चपेट में कब आने वाले है,खुद ही तय कर लो । Posted by Rajkumar Singhal on Monday, October 4, 2021 Second video The second video is widespread with the same message. Another Twitter user also shared the video and accompanying claim. राजस्थान कश्मीर कब बना मालूम ही नही चला। कल जयपुर में हुआ है, क्या ये खबर सच है ? pic.twitter.com/kIIAhtOx8H — 🕉📿भटकतीआत्मा 🇮🇳🕉FB 💯 (@bhatkatiatma45) October 4, 2021 The clips are gathering a lot of traction on Twitter and Facebook. We also received several requests to verify them on the Alt News official mobile app and WhatsApp helpline number. Both videos have been available on the internet since 2017. They were shared on Facebook with the same claim on September 10, 2017. First video In the background of the video, we can see the hoardings of a few stores, including ‘Western Hosiery’, ‘Sathoo Furnishing’ and ‘Vasco Pasco’. We found that these shops are located around Anantnag’s Lal Chowk. Images containing the same hoardings of nearby stores can be found on the ‘Western Hosiery’ Facebook page. Second video When we performed a reverse image search using the video frames, we again found that these were from Lal Chowk in Anantnag. The hoardings for ‘Western Hosiery’ and ‘Sathoo Furnishing’ appear briefly in the viral visuals. Furthermore, the hoarding of another neighbouring store named ‘New Western Collection’ is also visible. Thus, Alt News can confirm that both these videos are at least four years old and were taken in Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir. They have nothing to do with the recent stone-pelting incident in Jaipur. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	9th October 2021 / 7:49 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2017-videos-from-jammu-kashmir-shared-as-stone-pelting-on-cops-in-jaipur-rajasthan/", "author": "Kinjal" }
73	Fact-check: Does this photo depict attack on Ramlila program in Punjab? - Alt News Kinjal 28th October 2020 / 1:48 pm Hindu festival of Dussehra was recently celebrated with small gatherings in many parts of the country. Ravana Dahan and Ramlila programs were also held even as the crowd was solemn compared to pre-COVID years. In the midst of this, a photo has gone viral on social media, purportedly showing an attack on Ramlila actors in Punjab. It depicts a destroyed room with broken furniture and things scattered on the floor. This picture was shared by a user named Rahul Keshri on a Facebook group ‘Hindu Ekta’. Another Facebook user posted this picture with the same claim. (archived link) The photo is being widely shared across Twitter and Facebook. A website called india-politics.com shared this image in July 2019 in a story about temple vandalism, along with claims of attacks on temples in Delhi’s Lal Kuan area and Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar. It is true that in Kothe Manwal village of Punjab some miscreants had started a fight during Ramlila. According to a Jagran report dated October 23, 2020, “Mischievous elements in the village Kothe Manwal caused a commotion during Ramlila event. On Wednesday night, these men jumped onto the stage, abused the actors, as well as beat them up. They cut off the electricity powering the event and tore up posters and banners as well. Attendees protested and demanded strict action against those who interrupted the gathering.” However, the picture going viral on social media does not represent the recent commotion. Alt News performed a simple reverse image search and found the viral image on the website of Australian magazine Crikey. The accompanying article, published on October 30, 2018, stated that a group of vandals attacked a Hindu temple in the South Western suburb of Regent’s Park. Temple idols, musical instruments, and other items were smashed in the destruction. The word ‘Jesus’ was also written on the wall. The report also mentions that the culprits set fire to some parts of the temple. The Daily Mail also covered the incident in a story dated October 19, 2018. It said that 30 idols of gods and goddesses were destroyed in the attack. Several items in the temple, including the furniture, were smashed and set on fire. Pandit Para Maharaj, the chief priest of the temple, told SBS that he was “in a state of shock” and “never expected anything like this to happen in Australia”. The chief priest was quoted as saying that the attack was motivated by hate since nothing was stolen from the temple. This article also included some more pictures of the aftermath of the attack. The Facebook page of the temple, ‘Bhartiye Mandir Sydney’, also shared some images from the scene on October 18, 2018. Dear all, as you may know, Bhartiye Mandir was brutally vandalised on Sunday evening. All the statues and pictures… Posted by Bhartiye Mandir Sydney on Wednesday, 17 October 2018 According to the SBS article, the incident was strongly condemned by the Hindu community in Australia, leaving them baffled. The report quoted David Coleman, then Australia’s immigration minister, as saying, “I am concerned to learn the Bhartiye Mandir Hindu Temple in Regents Park, Sydney has been vandalised and I offer my sympathies to members of the Hindu community affected.” It was reported that the temple would reopen in January 2019. An article in Indian Link quoted the temple priest as saying that it was set to reopen for the public on February 2. Therefore, a picture of an attack on a Hindu temple in Australia from two years ago was circulated as recent. The incident is not connected to the commotion at a recent Ramlila program in Punjab. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The CCTV footage of a man violently flinging a child on the ground has created… A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	28th October 2020 / 1:48 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-image-from-sydney-australia-shared-as-attack-on-ramleela-in-punjab/", "author": "Kinjal" }
74	Old image from Bihar shared as man in Kolkata standing on Indian national flag - Alt News Kinjal 7th August 2020 / 10:28 pm / Last updated: 8th August 2020 A picture of a man standing on the Indian national is floating on social media the past few days. The person has the Pakistani flag wrapped around him and a gun in his hands. The accompanying message suggests that he hails from Kolkata. The message also asks people to share the image as much as possible so that the man is soon arrested. Alt News has received several verification requests for the photograph on its official mobile application. On June 28, one Santosh Vyas tweeted, “यह कोलकाता के महेशतला में संतोषपूरी का रहने वाला है।इसे इतना वायरल करें की इसकी गिरफ्तारी हो सके (He is a resident of Santoshpur in Maheshtala, Kolkata. Make this so viral that the man is arrested.)” Santosh identifies as BJP Madhya Pradesh state executive member on his Twitter bio. By the time this article was written, his tweet garnered over 3,600 retweets. यह कोलकाता के महेशतला में संतोषपूरी का रहने वाला है।इसे इतना वायरल करें की इसकी गिरफ्तारी हो सके…!! pic.twitter.com/Sdd1bQtFEV — Dr.Santosh vyas…🌶🌶 (@DrSantoshvyas1) June 28, 2020 A Facebook user shared this picture on a group called ‘Yogi ji ki Adalat (Must add 100 Yogi fans)’. The picture has also been shared with the claim that the man is Ashutosh Shukla of Kanpur. A reverse image search led us to an article published on the local website ‘Siwan Online’ on August 30, 2018. The article identifies the man as Sajid Hussain, a resident of Jasoli of Panchrukhi police station area, Siwan City, Bihar. Through a keyword search on YouTube, we found a video uploaded on August 31, 2018, which carries a statement of SP Naveen Chandra Jha. According to the police officer, a complaint was lodged at Panchmukhi police station and accused Mohammad Sajid Hussain was arrested. A case was registered against him for insulting the national flag. The SP added that cops were unable to find information about the gun in Hussain’s possession. On 30 August 2018, Prabhat Khabar published a report on the incident. This report too identifies the accused as Sajid Hussain from Siwan City, Bihar. Punjab Kesari shared a video report about the case on August 31, 2018. Therefore, a photograph of a man stepping on the Indian national flag has been shared with the false claim that he hails from Kolkata, West Bengal. The picture is related to a two-year-old case from Bihar. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… Trigger Warning: Violent Content. Viewer discretion is advised. Over the past few months, rumours of… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	7th August 2020 / 10:28 pm / Last updated: 8th August 2020	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-image-of-a-man-disrespecting-indian-flag-in-bihar-shared-as-west-bengal/", "author": "Kinjal" }
75	Image from 2018 shared as post-poll violence in West Bengal - Alt News Priyanka Jha 4th May 2021 / 11:07 pm / Last updated: 4th May 2021 Violence in West Bengal erupted soon after the TMC won the recently-concluded state elections. At least 11 people have died in the violence, according to media reports, and the BJP has claimed that six of them were party workers. The TMC, on the other hand, has claimed that four of its workers died in the violence. Twitter user @Priyankkashyap2 shared a picture of mob violence with the hashtag #BengalBurning. She wrote that the image shows the “condition of Hindus” in Bengal. BJP Tamil Nadu IT and social media head Nirmal Kumar shared the picture too and used the hashtag #PresidentRuleInBengal. Journalist Unnikrishnan R Santhosh shared the picture as well. It has also been posted by Facebook users. ബംഗാൾ കത്തുകയാണ്. തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിന് മുൻപ് മമ്ത ബാനർജി പറഞ്ഞു തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പിന് ശേഷം കേന്ദ്ര സേന ഇവിടെ നിന്ന് പോയാൽ അവരുടെ … Posted by Aathira V on Tuesday, 4 May 2021 A reverse-image search led us to a report in Hindustan Times from March 30, 2018. “A police patrol party in Raniganj, Burdwan, where clashes and incidents of arson were reported following a Ram Navami procession,” reads its description. The image has been credited to PTI. “The imam of a mosque in West Bengal’s Asansol town has appealed for peace and restraint hours after his 16-year-old son was found dead following the violence that started in the industrial town and other areas in the state after the Ram Navami celebrations,” says the report. India Today had also carried the picture in a report from three years ago. An old picture of violence in West Bengal during Ram Navami celebrations has been falsely linked to the post-poll violence in the state. Several people have shared the image along with pictures of the recent violence. Save Bengal, it should not be late. #BengalBurning #AmitShah pic.twitter.com/ezr3ktwnWP — Lucky Gautam (@Luckygautam007) May 4, 2021 She specializes in information verification, examining mis/disinformation, social media monitoring and platform accountability. Her aim is to make the internet a safer place and enable people to become informed social media users. She has been a part of Alt News since 2018. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	4th May 2021 / 11:07 pm / Last updated: 4th May 2021	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-image-of-communal-violence-shared-as-post-poll-violence-in-bangal/", "author": "Priyanka Jha" }
76	Photo from 2018 viral as thousands gather for ongoing farmers' protest - Alt News Kinjal 3rd December 2020 / 2:21 pm Several old pictures and videos have been shared on social media with the claim that they represent the ongoing farmers’ protests. In the latest spree, a photo of thousands of people sitting on the road was circulated. Facebook page ‘Khari Khari News’ posted this picture, drawing over 1,000 likes as of this writing. सर्द हवाओं के बीच… काले आसमान के नीचे… दिलों में अंगारे भरे हुए…. आप पार का संकल्प लिए… अपने हकों की रक्षा के… Posted by Khari Khari News on Sunday, 29 November 2020 Bengali news website ‘guruchandali’ and a Tamil news outlet published this photo as recent scenes from farmers’ protest. It is quite widely circulating on Facebook as recent. A simple reverse-image search led us to the same photograph uploaded by Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan on March 11, 2020. It represents the farmers’ long-march led by CPI(M) in Maharashtra. CPM-led ‘long march’ of farmers in Maharashtra heralds the future of resistance struggle in India #KisanLongMarch pic.twitter.com/GnDV89DGns — Pinarayi Vijayan (@vijayanpinarayi) March 11, 2018 It was also uploaded by media outlets two years ago. About 25,000 farmers have been marching to towards #Mumbai to protest against the anti-farmer policies. They have gathered at the Eastern Expressway Highway, opposite Viviana mall in #Thane. pic.twitter.com/ROlvkePsjH — Mumbai Live (@MumbaiLiveNews) March 10, 2018 “Over 30,000 farmers marched to Mumbai, from different parts of Maharashtra, for five days from March 7 to 12 to draw the State government’s attention to their demands, that included transfer of forestland to tribals who had been tilling it for years,” reported The Hindu on March 17, 2018. Two-year-old image of farmers’ protest in Maharashtra has therefore been falsely shared as the ongoing peasants’ movement. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	3rd December 2020 / 2:21 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-image-of-farmer-protest-from-maharashtra-shared-recent/", "author": "Kinjal" }
77	Old photo of water dispenser installed at Raipur station viral as Delhi - Alt News Kinjal 23rd June 2021 / 10:02 pm A picture of a public water dispenser that says, “Who is Hussain? Drink Water, Think Hussain” has been shared on social media. It has been claimed that the cooler was installed at a railway station in Delhi. A Facebook page shared the image with the message, “Preparations are underway for the Islamisation of India. Apparently, it is very important to know who Hussain is before drinking water at the Delhi railway station. The same campaign would have been called communal had it said ‘Jai Shri Ram.” The image is widespread on Facebook. We also received numerous requests to verify it on the official Alt News mobile app. The photo is being shared across Twitter with the same caption. भारत के #इस्लामीकरण की तैयारी, #दिल्ली के रेलवे स्टेशन पर पानी पीने से पहले #हुसैन को जानना बहुत जरूरी है, अगर इस पर #जय_श्रीराम लिखा होता तो ये साम्प्रदायिक हो जाता#दोगला_केजरीवाल क्या कोई जानता है ये हुसैन कौन था.. 😡 pic.twitter.com/M2JpGy4rwP — Shagun Verma (@shagun1710) May 12, 2020 It is also being promoted on Twitter and Facebook with an English caption — “This is put on an Indian Railway platform, Think same thing put with “Drink Water, Think Shri Ram” It will be in news all over the world.” Alt News performed a reverse image search, which led us to a tweet by user Hussain Rizvi dated May 5, 2018. Rizvi, an India Today journalist, shared the image and wrote that volunteers of an organisation named ‘Who Is Hussain’ had the dispenser installed at the Raipur railway station in Chhattisgarh. Taking #inspiration from #Hussain(as), @WhoisHussain_In‘s #volunteers in #Raipur #Chhattisgarh installed #water cooler for #passengers at the #railway station. True serving to humanity! Thanks to @WhoIsHussain#WaterIsLife#Humanity #SalamYaHussain #Karbala #امام_حسین pic.twitter.com/oqZllv0L1z — Hussain Rizvi हुसैन حسین رضوی (@TheHussainRizvi) May 5, 2018 The viral image was posted on the organisation’s Instagram page on May 6, 2018. The accompanying caption states, “Imagine the desert of Karbala several centuries ago, where Hussain, son of Ali, and his 71 companions were killed after being kept thirsty for three days. Taking inspiration from Hussain, our volunteers in Raipur (Chhattisgarh) installed a water cooler for passengers at the Raipur railway station.” A post shared by Team WhoisHussain-India (@whoishussain_in) ‘Whoishussain.org’ was established in 2012 and it now operates in 60 cities. The NGO’s work ranges from conducting food distribution drives to blood donation camps. Samir Abbas, the editor of TV9 Bharatvarsh, shared the image on May 12, 2018, writing, “The cruel army of Yazid martyred Imam Hussain after starving him for three days with no food or water. This campaign is called #DrinkWaterThinkHussain to make viewers realise the importance of water. It is a pity that some fundamentalists were offended by the name Hussain printed on this water cooler installed by an NGO at Raipur station and forcibly removed it.” The tweet contains another image of the dispenser after the “Who is Hussain? Drink Water, Think Hussain” poster had been destroyed. इमाम हुसैन को यज़ीद की ज़ालिम फ़ौज ने 3 दिन का भूखा-प्यासा शहीद किया था। इसीलिए कहा जाता है #DrinkWaterThinkHussain यानि आप पानी की अहमियत समझें पर अफ़सोस इस बात का कि कुछ कट्टरपंथियों को रायपुर स्टेशन पर एक NGO के लगाए प्याऊ पर हुसैन का नाम लिखा चुभने लगा और इसे ज़बरन हटा दिया। pic.twitter.com/8tO5RcSGTY — Samir Abbas (@TheSamirAbbas) May 12, 2018 A picture of a water dispenser installed by an NGO in Raipur in May 2018 was falsely shared as a Delhi railway station. A misleading anti-Muslim message was shared along with the image. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	23rd June 2021 / 10:02 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-image-of-hussain-water-cooler-at-raipur-station-shared-as-delhi/", "author": "Kinjal" }
78	2018 image of Muslims offering prayers in UP shared as recent from Tamil Nadu - Alt News Jignesh Patel 2nd May 2020 / 8:34 pm An image of a group of men, wearing a skull cap, offering namaz is getting shared on social media. It is being shared with the claim that a group of 700 men offered namaz amid the lockdown in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore district. Facebook user Vijay Ajay posted the image with the claim in Tamil on April 30. The image is credited to ‘Alamy stock photo’ and ‘Jaya Murgan’. The text in Tamil reads, “வேலூர் மாவட்டம் திருப்பத்தூர் டவுனில், ஜூம்மா மசூதி தெருவில் கடந்த இரண்டு நாட்களாக, நள்ளிரவு 1 மணிக்கு நடு ரோட்டிலேயே சுமார் 700நபர்கள் தொழுகையில் ஈடுபட்டு வருகின்றனர். காவல்துறையினர் உயரதிகாரிகளின் உத்திரவிற்கு கட்டுப்பட்டு, அவர்களுக்கு எந்த தொந்திரவும்!!!? மற்றும் அங்கு இரவு பணியில் இருக்கும் காவலர்கள் எவரும் தமது தொலைபேசியில் புகைப்படமோ அல்லது வீடியோவை எடுக்கக்கூடாது!?? என்ற உயர் அதிகாரியின் உத்தரவுக்கு கட்டுப்பட்டு கையை பிசைந்து நிற்கின்றனர்..சம்மந்தப்பட்ட காவல்துறையை சேர்ந்த நண்பர் ஒருவரின் மனக்குமுறல்..நன்றி : Jaya Murugan நன்றி : alamy stock photo”. Another Facebook page with the name Bjp Coimbatore Thondamuthur Assembly posted the image with the same claim. With a Google reverse image search, Alt News found that the image is from Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad city, now known as Prayagraj. According to the stock photo agency Alamy, the image was shot on May 17, 2018. “Muslims offer night prayers called taraweeh during Ramadan month in Allahabad, Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and the month in which the Quran was revealed, Fasting during the month of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. The month is spent by Muslims fasting during the daylight hours from dawn to sunset,” reads the caption. The image is credited to a person named Prabhat Kumar Verma. Tamil Nadu’s Tirupathur district police also took to Twitter and called out the misinformation circulated on social media. “Picture shot in #allahabad is falsely shared in social media as one taken in #tirupathur district.FIR has been registered against the miscreants,” said the tweet. caution fake news picture shot in #allahabad is falsely shared in social media as one taken in #tirupathur district.FIR has been registered against the miscreants வழக்கு பதிவு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது பொய்யான செய்தி பரப்புவர் மீது சட்டநடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும்#fakenews #tnpolice pic.twitter.com/9Xkt1O2bAO — Tirupathur Dist Police (@sp_tirupathur) May 1, 2020 In conclusion, a 2018 image from Uttar Pradesh was falsely shared to claim that Muslims offered namaz in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore district despite an ongoing nationwide lockdown. Earlier this week, a video from Mumbai shot on March 23 outside a mosque in Dongri was shared with the false claim that it showed Muslims gathering in Ahmedabad’s Jamalpur area amidst the lockdown. Jignesh is a writer and researcher at Alt News. He has a knack for visual investigation with a major interest in fact-checking videos and images. He has completed his Masters in Journalism from Gujarat University. In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The CCTV footage of a man violently flinging a child on the ground has created… A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	2nd May 2020 / 8:34 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-image-of-muslims-offering-prayers-in-up-shared-as-recent-from-tamil-nadu/", "author": "Jignesh Patel" }
79	Old image of teacher burning the tricolour viral with false RSS links - Alt News Abhishek Kumar 10th August 2022 / 12:22 pm A picture in which a person is sitting on a chair and setting the national flag ablaze is viral on social media. The image has a text superimposed on it that reads, “RSS member burning Indian flag is ok in New India”. It has been claimed that the person seen in the picture is associated with the RSS. User Pankaj Sharma posted the photo on Twitter, asking whether the government is not enraged by such incidents. (Archived link) सरकार का खून ऐसे दृश्यों को देख कर के नहीं खोलता pic.twitter.com/9gOa6cscfg — pankaj sharma (@pankaj3033) August 6, 2022 Twitter user Kumar Ambedkarvadi also tweeted the photo with the same claim. (Archived link) सरकार का खून ऐसे दृश्यों को देख कर के नहीं खोलता यह किसी भी पार्टी किसी भी संगठन का क्यों ना हो इसके ऊपर सख्त से सख्त कार्रवाई हो pic.twitter.com/U53CQnJ3Kf — 💕 कुमार 🇮🇳अंबेडकरवादी 💕 (@TONYSTARK6615) August 6, 2022 Another user named Imran Kamil also amplified the image and accompanying claim. (Archived link) सरकार का खून ऐसे दृश्यों को देख कर के नहीं खोलता pic.twitter.com/I3QMam3RpZ — imran Kamaal (@KamaalMev) August 7, 2022 The image is widespread on Twitter with the same claim. Alt News performed a reverse image search and came across a tweet posted by user Girish Bhardwaj from April 2018 containing the photo. The tweet states that the man in the picture is an “arts” teacher in a school in Tamil Nadu named M Prabhu. The teacher reportedly staged a protest against the government by burning the Indian flag. (Archived link) Meet Mr M Prabhu, a arts teacher at a school in Tamil Nadu. He protests against the government by burning the Indian flag. Hate any government, but never hate the nation that gives you an identity! You might be a Tamil,Telugu,Marathi etc but you’re an Indian first! pic.twitter.com/zOVhXWWYls — Girish Bharadwaj (@Girishvhp) April 4, 2018 Upon further investigation, we found the image in a 2018 article by Edexlive, the education arm of The New Indian Express. According to the article, the man in the video is 34-year-old M Prabhu who teaches painting. He is also affiliated with the Tamil nationalist organization ‘Tamil Desiya Periyakkam’. Angered by the non-formation of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) even after a Supreme Court order, M Prabhu burnt the tricolor in protest of the BJP-led central government. The police arrested Prabhu after the video went viral. It is worth noting that fierce protests broke out in Tamil Nadu in April 2018 after the central government missed the deadline set by the Supreme Court for the formation of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB). We also found a video from 2018 which contains more information about the photo. To sum it up, a four-year-old picture is falsely being shared as a photo of a man associated with the RSS burning the tricolour. Abhishek is a senior fact-checking journalist and researcher at Alt News. He has a keen interest in information verification and technology. He is always eager to learn new skills, explore new OSINT tools and techniques. Prior to joining Alt News, he worked in the field of content development and analysis with a major focus on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	10th August 2022 / 12:22 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-image-of-tamil-teacher-burning-naional-flag-falsely-shared-as-rss-worker/", "author": "Abhishek Kumar" }
80	Fact-check: Did UP govt organise fruits for cops to break Navratri fast? - Alt News Priyanka Jha 19th October 2021 / 4:21 pm Recently, Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha UP’s Social Media Head Richa Rajput shared a photo claiming that the Yogi Adityanath government made special arrangements and procured fruit for police personnel observing the Navratri fast. She added that she witnessed such a scene for the first time and this was normally seen during the Ramzan Iftar. Her tweet garnered more than 5,000 likes as of this writing. (Archive link) योगी सरकार ने नवरात्रि व्रत रखने वाले पुलिस कर्मियों के लिये फलाहार का विशेष प्रबंध किया है। जीवन में पहली बार ऐसा दृश्य देखा है वर्ना ऐसा आयोजन सिर्फ रोजा इफ्तारी में ही देखा था।। pic.twitter.com/mKfiLFzwxE — Dr. Richa Rajpoot (@doctorrichabjp) October 12, 2021 The photo was also posted by a page named ‘‘तेज़ रफ़्तार योगी सरकार‘ (Tez Raftaar Yogi Sarkar), gathering over 23,000 likes. 💓💪😍बाबा की जय हो😍💪💓 योगी सरकार ने पहली बार💪😍 नवरात्रि व्रत रखने वाले पुलिस कर्मियों के लिये फलाहार का विशेष प्रबंध किया है।👌 जीवन में पहली बार ऐसा दृश्य देखा है💕 Posted by तेज रफ़्तार योगी सरकार on Monday, October 11, 2021 Furthermore, BJP Ghaziabad’s Social Media Head Anand Kalra, Facebook page ‘योगी के योद्धा’ (Yogi Ke Yodha), Neelam Chaturvedi and a handle named @Goldenthrust shared the image with the same claim. Alt News performed a reverse image search using Yandex and found the original picture in a tweet posted by Vikas Chandra Tripathi on October 10, 2018. Tripathi has served as the Additional SP in the UP Police Headquarters. He had shared four photos from the event. One of these is the viral image circulating in praise of the Yogi administration. शारदीय #नवरात्रि के प्रथम शुभ दिन थाना चौक #लखनऊ पर साथी जवानों के साथ फलाहार / लंच कार्यक्रम का आयोजन !!#HappyNavratri@lucknowpolice @Uppolice @upcoprahul @Igrangelucknow @adgzonelucknow pic.twitter.com/wONGeR2h5m — Vikas Chandra Tripathi🇮🇳 (@vctcop) October 10, 2018 He also wrote that these photos were taken during a lunch/fast-breaking event with his friends from Lucknow on the first day of Navratri. Vikas Chandra Tripathi was recently suspended from UP police for negligence. An old picture was shared to laud the UP government. It is noteworthy that we did not find any media reports corroborating that such an initiative was undertaken by the UP government recently. She specializes in information verification, examining mis/disinformation, social media monitoring and platform accountability. Her aim is to make the internet a safer place and enable people to become informed social media users. She has been a part of Alt News since 2018. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	19th October 2021 / 4:21 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-image-shared-with-false-claim-that-yogi-govt-made-special-arrangement-for-cops-in-navratri-first-time/", "author": "Priyanka Jha" }
81	2018 Kulgam blast video shared in Pak social media as Kashmiris massacred in recent unrest - Alt News Pooja Chaudhuri 10th August 2019 / 7:05 pm / Last updated: 13th August 2019 Abdullah Gul, the son of former ISI DG General Hamid Gul, tweeted a video on August 10, claiming it was sent was a “Kashmiri sister” and depicts a massacre in the region. The video shows people running havoc, carrying injured bodies. His tweet in Urdu roughly translates to – “Massacre started in Kashmir. This video has been sent by a Kashmiri sister. Quaid-e-Azam has ordered army to march towards Kashmir. We are providing diplomatic, moral and political support. Imran Khan says he will respond if Pakistan attacks. Isn’t Kashmir Pakistan? Did Tipu Sultan go that way?” کشمیر میں قتل عام شروع یہ ویڈیو کشمیری بہن نے بھیجی ہے قائد اعظم نے فوج کو کشمیر کی طرف مارچ کرنے کا حکم دیا تھا ہم سفارتی، اخلاقی و سیاسی مدد کر رہے ہیں عمران خان کہتے ہیں کہ اگر پاکستان پر حملہ ہوا تو جواب دینگے کیا کشمیر پاکستان نہیں؟ کیا ٹیپو سلطان یہی راستہ اختیار کرتے؟ pic.twitter.com/UHoV6wG6FW — Abdullah Gul (@MAbdullahGul) August 10, 2019 Gul’s tweet was shared by a Twitter handle TIMES OF GAZA with the claim – “Indian forces are brutally killing people in Kashmir during the lockdown.” The video was also shared by Pakistani politicians Rehman Malik. President ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ and ⁦@UN⁩ and other human rights bodies to take notice of this Indian gunship attack on innocent Kashmiris who are demanding their right of self determination as per UNO resolution.⁦@narendramodi⁩ ⁦@hrw⁩ pic.twitter.com/6nDgk11Zi6 — Senator Rehman Malik (@SenRehmanMalik) August 13, 2019 The clip tweeted by Gul is unrelated to the recent unrest in Jammu and Kashmir. Alt News broke the video into multiple frames and reserve-searched one of the images on Google. We were led to a YouTube handle which had uploaded the same video last year titled – ‘Kashmir News’. The description of the clip says, “Civilian death toll mounts to seven in Kulgam* Srinagar, Oct 21(GNS): The civilian death toll has risen to seven with the death of another.” https://youtu.be/pOgILhhoiLY When we searched for videos on YouTube using keywords – ‘Kulgam blast’ – we found an October 22, 2018 broadcast by IB Times which carried the same video. Identical visuals can be seen 0:32 seconds onward. An additional spokesperson of JKNC had also tweeted the video last year. People who keep commenting so much about Kashmir without knowing what it is like to live here must watch this video. Honestly, I did NOT want to share such a disturbing/graphic clip here, but then THIS IS THE REALITY. 7 civilians hav died in Kulgam, dozens injured. #KashmirBleeds pic.twitter.com/yXgkO15BGK — Sarah Hayat Shah (@SaraHayatShah) October 21, 2018 On October 21, 2018, seven civilians were killed in Kashmir’s Kulgam in an explosion at the site of a gun battle between militants and security forces. According to Hindustan Times, the police said that three Jaish terrorists were also gunned down in the encounter. While the police maintained that civilians were advised to stay away from the site, angry locals questioned the authority’s failure to cordon off the encounter site to people. In conclusion, a video of the 2018 Kulgam blast was shared as visuals of the ongoing unrest in Kashmir after J&K’s special status under Article 370 was scrapped. Alt News has come across several such cases where old clips were shared to claim Kashmiris attacked in J&K – old mock drill video from Jharkhand, old lathi-charge video from Patna. Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	10th August 2019 / 7:05 pm / Last updated: 13th August 2019	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-kulgam-blast-video-shared-in-pak-social-media-as-kashmiris-massacred-in-recent-unrest/", "author": "Pooja Chaudhuri" }
82	2018 MP election video viral as BJP and Election Commission illegally hoarding EVMs - Alt News Pooja Chaudhuri 25th March 2019 / 2:44 pm / Last updated: 13th April 2019 “मोदी,शाह,चुनाव आयोग की मिलीभगत की खुली पोल।मध्य प्रदेश के बीना बाजार में बिना नंबर की स्कूल गाड़ी और 3बोलेरो जीप में सैकड़ों EVM मशीन strong room में रखते हुए पकड़े गये। (The conspiracy of Modi, Shah and the Election Commission is revealed. They were caught while storing several EVM machines in strong rooms from an unnumbered school bus and three Bolero jeeps.),” is a claim viral on social media. The accompanying video shows hundreds of EVMs recovered from vehicles. मध्य प्रदेश के ‘बीना बाज़ार’ में बिना नंबर की स्कूल गाड़ी और 3 बोलेरो जीप में सैकड़ों EVM मशीनें strong room में रखवाई जा रहीं थीं… जनता द्वारा पकड़े जाने पर कोई भी ज़िम्मेदार अधिकारी जवाब नहीं दे पा रहा है…!! 😡 इस वीडियो को ज़्यादा से ज़्यादा शेयर करें ताकि जनता को असलियत का पता चल सके और लोकतंत्र बच सके… 🙏🏼 Posted by Shabih Abidi on Tuesday, 26 March 2019 From a Facebook page ਕੌਮ ਦੀ ਸ਼ਾਨ, the video attracted 48,000 views but was later taken down. An archived version of the post can be accessed here. The video is widely circulated on social media with the identical claims that PM Modi, Amit Shah and the Election Commission sketched a conspiracy to store electronic voting machines in strong rooms, and these were transported in an unnumbered school bus and two Bolero jeeps. Alt News found that the video pertained to a November 2018 incident when Congress workers accused the BJP of voter tampering before the MP assembly elections. It was claimed these EVMs reached the polling booth 48 hours after the voting concluded. मप्र के गृहमंत्री के क्षेत्र में मतदान के 48 घंटे बाद बिना नंबर की गाड़ी से ईवीएम स्ट्रांग रूम में जमा कराने का प्रयास हुआ। —भाजपा को जिताने के लिये ईवीएम बदलने की सरकारी साज़िश..? कलेक्टर, एसपी समेत निर्वाचन कार्य में लगे तमाम लोगों पर सख़्त कार्यवाही कर लोकतंत्र की रक्षा हो। pic.twitter.com/lj588NdyA5 — MP Congress (@INCMP) November 30, 2018 The Chief Electoral Officer of Madhya Pradesh, however, claimed that these were ‘reserve’ EVMs, stationed at police stations and to be used as a replacement for malfunctioning machines during polling. “Such machines were to be stored separately from polled EVMs. Strong room having polled EVMs was neither opened nor was supposed to be opened,” read the tweet by CEO MP Elections. These are EVMs kept as ‘Reserve’ stationed at some Police stations, to be used as replacement for malfunctioning machines during Poll. Such machines were to be stored separately from polled EVMs. Strong room having Polled EVMs was neither opened nor was supposed to be opened. https://t.co/usco7xQpD1 — CEOMPElections (@CEOMPElections) November 30, 2018 NDTV had reported the incident, presenting claims from both the sides. According to the news report, government officials were not providing clear answers on the issue. The video’s current virality misleads social media users that the incident was recent and the alleged tampering was done to rig the coming general elections. The video, however, is from last year’s Madhya Pradesh assembly polls. Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	25th March 2019 / 2:44 pm / Last updated: 13th April 2019	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-mp-election-video-viral-as-bjp-and-election-commission-illegally-hoarding-evms/", "author": "Pooja Chaudhuri" }
83	Old video of man spitting on pizza in US shared with false Muslim angle in India - Alt News Kinjal 2nd March 2021 / 3:36 pm A video of a man caught spitting on a pizza while preparing it was shared across social media platforms. Several people have identified the man as ‘shantidoot’ (peaceful), a derogatory term used for the Muslim community. It is being suggested that he is an Algerian refugee in London. Twitter user Shefali Tiwari shared the clip, writing, “Scenes from a London restaurant. This peaceful is a refugee from Algeria. It’s simple, avoid this place as soon as you discover who owns it or risk eating saliva-tainted food.” The caption also encourages others to boycott ‘Muslim-owned businesses’. It had racked up more than 5,000 views at the time of writing. (Archive link) #लंदन के एक रेस्टोरेंट का दृश्य👇#शांतिदूत अल्जीरिया से आया हुआ एक शरणार्थी है सीधी सी बात है जैसे ही पता चले इनकी #दुकान है चुपचाप कट लो वरना इनका #थूक वाला खाओ pic.twitter.com/inGGghx1cO — Shefali Tiwari (@shefalitiwari7) February 24, 2021 Facebook user Amit Kumar Tiwari also posted the video with this claim. (Archive link) यह लंदन का दृश्य है और यह शांतिदूत अल्जीरिया से आया हुआ एक शरणार्थी है सीधी सी बात है जैसे ही पता चले कि इनकी दुकान है चुपचाप कट लो वरना इनका थूक वाला खाओ🤭🤭 Posted by Amit Kumar Tiwari Amit on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 The visuals and accompanying claims are viral on Facebook and Twitter. Alt News performed a keyword search and found the same video uploaded on YouTube on September 25, 2018. CBS Miami reported that the incident took place in Detroit, US. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibAYeoKaZv0] According to AP News, the man in the video is Jaylon Kerley, who was fired from his food service job after the clip went viral. The court sentenced him to four years in prison on two food violations. Detroit news channel WXYZ-TV also uploaded a video story on the incident where the individual who recorded the video mentions that Jaylon was going through a difficult time. The Food Safety Department of the city also demanded he undergoes a medical evaluation. AP News reported that the test results confirmed that Kerley did not have any infectious diseases. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYNnn5Yrb70] None of the reports mentions his religious identity. A three-year-old video of a man spitting on pizza dough in Detroit, US was shared on social media with a false communal spin. In a similar incident, a video from 2015 was circulated targeting the Muslim community over the coronavirus. An old clip of a Muslim man licking fruits in Madhya Pradesh was shared earlier during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The CCTV footage of a man violently flinging a child on the ground has created… A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	2nd March 2021 / 3:36 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-video-america-spitting-on-pizza-shared-with-false-communal-angle/", "author": "Kinjal" }
84	2018 video from Bihar falsely shared as Bajrang Dal members assaulting a woman - Alt News Arjun Sidharth 3rd July 2019 / 3:57 pm बिहार में बजरंग दल के गुंडों ने एक क्रिस्चियन महिला के कपडे उतारकर बीच बाजार में सरेआम पिटाई की इसको इतना सेर करो के वर्ल्ड ह्यूमन राइट्स और वुमन राइट्स कमीशन तक पहुंच जाये क्यूंकि इंडियन गवर्नमेंट सब कुछ जानते हुए भी लघुमति समुदायों के बचाव में कुछ नहीं करती Translation: In Bihar, Bajrang Dal goons tore of a Christian woman’s clothes and beat her up in the middle of a bazaar. Share this so much that it reaches the world human rights and women’s rights commission because the Indian government, despite knowing everything, is doing nothing to save the minority communities. The above message has been circulated along with a horrific video of a woman who is paraded naked on the street and thrashed by several men. Alt News is not posting the video here due to its graphic nature. The video has been circulating primarily on WhatsApp. The video has also been uploaded and posted on Twitter. Using specific keywords, Alt News found several articles, and on the basis of accompanying visuals, found that this incident indeed took place in Bihar in 2018. However, there are no reports to suggest that Bajrang Dal members were behind this incident. The incident took place in Bihiya town of Bhojpur district. According to reports, the woman was suspected to be involved in the death of a youth whose body was found near the railway station. This resulted in protests, and the woman, who lived in a red-light area nearby, was dragged out and assaulted on the street. Moreover, it may be noted that a RJD leader, Kaushal Kishore Yadav was among 16 people arrested for the violence at Bihiya. It may be reiterated that there is no evidence to suggest that the assault was the handiwork of Bajrang Dal members. Arjun Sidharth is a writer with Alt News. He has previously worked in the television news industry, where he managed news bulletins and breaking news scenarios, apart from scripting numerous prime time television stories. He has also been actively involved with various freelance projects. Sidharth has studied economics, political science, international relations and journalism. He has a keen interest in books, movies, music, sports, politics, foreign policy, history and economics. His hobbies include reading, watching movies and indoor gaming. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	3rd July 2019 / 3:57 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-video-from-bihar-falsely-shared-as-bajrang-dal-members-assaulting-a-woman/", "author": "Arjun Sidharth" }
85	Old video of boy urinating inside temple revived with false anti-Muslim spin - Alt News Archit & Aqib Pathan 17th March 2021 / 3:37 pm / Last updated: 17th March 2021 Against the backdrop of Shringi Yadav arrested from Ghaziabad for mercilessly beating a Muslim boy for drinking water from a temple, a video of a man urinating on a shivling has been shared with the claim that he hails from the Muslim community. The video was posted by Twitter users Gopal Goswami @gopugoswami, Ramesh Solanki @Rajput_Ramesh, @Dharmicbaba, @YamrajFromHell, and @P_Katyayan. Between just these accounts the video has been viewed over one lakh times. Goswami wrote, “See why they go to Temples:- it’s nothing to do with drinking water but to pee on the murtis & Ling”. His tweet gained close to 4,000 retweets. The video shared by @Dharmicbaba and @P_Katyayan has a watermark that reads ‘Top Most Media’. The video was also shared by @HinduEcosystem_, promoted by BJP leader Kapil Mishra, where it drew over 50,000 views. Swarajya’s senior editor Swati Goel Sharma and BJP member and former MLA Hari Manjhi shared the video as well. Multiple social media users have circulated the video along with the following Hindi text, “सनातन हिंदूओं के कोई भी धार्मिक स्थल हो या मंदिर विधर्मीयो का प्रवेश सक्त वर्जित होना चाहिए ! ये वीडियो देखो डासना मामले में **** के हिमायतियों।ये भी नाबालिग ही है और किस प्रकार ये विधर्मी शिवलिंग पर पेशाब कर अपवित्र कर रहा है ! अब भी बोलो की ये मासूम भाईचारे का संदेश दे रहा है।” The message says that those who are symathetic to the minor who was beaten in Ghaziabad should watch this video. The viral video is at least three years old. It was uploaded by YouTube channel Top Most Media in April 2018 and was verified by Alt News in 2019 as well. Telugu language news outlets MIC TV and ABN Live TV reported that the incident took place at a Shiva temple in Pisinikada village of the Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh on April 10, 2018. MIC TV reported that the accused were Santipura-based Anand and Ramesh Anand. We also found two Facebook posts (1, 2) that state Ramesh was the person urinating and was charged under the following sections — Section 66A in The Information Technology Act, 2000 (Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc), Section 295A in The Indian Penal Code (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and Section 153A in The Indian Penal Code (Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony). Alt News reached out to Ramesh Devarapalli who had made the Facebook post. He said that the culprits were from the Christian community. ఇదే ఆ దేవాలయం! పాషండుల దురాగతాలకు, గురైన అనాధ దేవాలయం! అనకాపల్లి మం, పిసినికాడ గ్రామ శివారు, శ్రీశ్రీశ్రీ స్వయంభూ కాశీవిశ్వేశ్వర స్వామి వారి ఆలయం! ॐ నమశ్శివాయః! ఆదాయమొచ్చే ఆలయాలనే గానీ ఇలాంటి స్వయంభూ ఆలయాలు వారి దృష్టిలో ఉండవేమో శివా!!?? #వీడు_ఎక్కడ_దొరికిన హిందువులారా వీడిని మాత్రము #కొట్టి_కొట్టి #చావగొట్టండి_😡🐑✝😡 శివాలయం లో అపచారం చేసిన వాడి పేరు జగన్నాధ. రమేష్ s/o వెంకన్న తల్లి పేరు పెంటమ్మ ,D.B.Colony రామ బద్రాపురం పిసిన కాడ పంచాయతీ అనకాపల్లి మండలం విశాఖపట్నం జిల్లా వాడి వృత్తి పాముల గారడీ వాడిపైన నమోదైన సెక్షన్లు 66A,295A,153A Posted by Ramesh Devarapalli on Tuesday, 10 April 2018 We also contacted Anakapalli rural police sub-inspector who similarly informed us, “This incident happened in 2018. The culprits were juvenile. The boy seen in the video is Jagannadha Ramesh and Anand Dasari recorded it. As per their confession, they were from the Christian community. The case was registered under FIR 52/2018 under sections 295A Section, 153A, and 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of The Indian Penal Code Section and 66A of The Information Technology Act, 2000.” A video from 2018 that shows a boy urinating on idols of Hindu deities was shared on social media with the false claim that he hails from the Muslim community. A few days ago a video of a Bangladesh-based Maulwi thrashing a child was shared on social media with the claim that the incident is from India. In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The CCTV footage of a man violently flinging a child on the ground has created… A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	17th March 2021 / 3:37 pm / Last updated: 17th March 2021	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-video-from-vishakhapatnam-shared-with-false-communal-angle-after-gaziabad-temple-incident/", "author": "Archit & Aqib Pathan" }
86	Old video falsely shared as hostel girls forced to strip by Mumbai cops - Alt News Priyanka Jha 6th March 2021 / 7:00 pm / Last updated: 6th March 2021 A video of a semi-naked woman embroiled in a heated argument with a group of people in the lobby of a building is circulating on social media. “Uddhav Thackeray is making Maharashtra a hell to live in. Hostel girls are forced to strip & dance naked by Mumbai Police,” reads the claim shared with the video. Uddhav Thackeray is making Maharashtra a hell to live in. Hostel girls are forced to strip & dance naked by Mumbai Police. But Thackeray is as deaf and dumb as Manmohan was. pic.twitter.com/65cUMYSmAw — SUNANDA SHARMA (@tusharcosmoo_g) March 3, 2021 Several individuals have circulated the video attacking Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. #उद्धव_माफी_माँगों Hostel girls forced to strip & dance naked by @AUThackeray @OfficeofUT @RajThackeray @ANI @PIBMumbai @MumbaiMirror @TOIMumbai @republic @ABPNews @AshishSinghLIVE @A__gujju @AMIT_GUJJU @gujju__tweets @VtvGujarati @Jai_Maharashta pic.twitter.com/EeR5eQMXzU — gujarati boy (@gujaratiboy4) March 3, 2021 The video in question is a broadcast by The Times of India. It was uploaded by the outlet in October 2018. “A content writer and an aspiring model partially stripped in the elevator of a housing society in Andheri to drive away a team of cops that had arrived following her altercation with a security guard. Later, she tweeted that she had to accompany them to the police station at 3 am, despite no female cop being present,” reported The Times of India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk8wX95Ofnw The incident took place when BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis was in power. Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray took the chief ministerial oath on November 2018, 2019. A follow-up report by The Times of India stated, “Megha Sharma claims she requested security guards to help her buy cigarettes late night. The guards didn’t help her despite many of them being on duty, she claimed. Abusive language by one guard led to the altercation and she called the police. Cops came without any female constable. Sharma claims cops insisted she accompany them to the police station late night. She partially stripped in the elevator of a housing society in Andheri to drive away a team of cops that had arrived following her altercation with a security guard.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQhiqG9I-QE A video of a woman partially stripping in a Mumbai housing complex in 2018 has been shared with the false claim that hostel girls were forced to strip by policemen under Uddhav Thackeray’s government. She specializes in information verification, examining mis/disinformation, social media monitoring and platform accountability. Her aim is to make the internet a safer place and enable people to become informed social media users. She has been a part of Alt News since 2018. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	6th March 2021 / 7:00 pm / Last updated: 6th March 2021	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-video-of-a-model-strips-in-a-elevator-shared-to-target-cm-uddhav-thackeray/", "author": "Priyanka Jha" }
87	Video of policeman beaten up in Ghaziabad in 2018 viral as Bareilly - Alt News Kinjal 25th January 2021 / 2:36 pm A 25-second video of a mob beating a policeman has recently gone viral. The visuals show a woman hitting the cop with slippers. It is being claimed that ‘peacefuls’ (perojative term used for Muslims) began attacking the policeman after he issued a challan. UP BJP State Working Committee member Ashish Singh Mahi tweeted the clip, writing, “Peacekeepers are beating up the Bareilly Police for issuing challans. What kind of people neither respect the law nor the justice system?” He tagged the UP Police and BJP Uttar Pradesh spokesperson Shalabh Mani Tripathi. This video had been viewed more than 53,000 times at the time of writing. (Archive link) बरेली पुलिस द्वारा चालान काटने पर शांतिदूतों ने उनकी पिटाई की है , ये किस प्रकार के लोग हैं जो ना कानून का सम्मान करते हैं ना न्याय व्यवस्था का.@Uppolice @shalabhmani और @myogiadityanath जी बुलडोजर से नीचे कुछ भी स्वीकार नहीं।😡 pic.twitter.com/cKlqHQSqp9 — Ashish Singh Mahi🇮🇳 (@ashishmahi4bjp) January 21, 2021 Twitter user @gagangoyal1968 also claimed that the incident took place in Bareilly. His tweet received more than 54,000 views and was also quote-tweeted by Madhu Kishwar. A vocal supporter of the BJP, Kishwar has often been found sharing misinformation that has been documented here. (Archive link) कोई हैरानी नहीं कि देश भर में पुलिस अफसर मुस्लिम इलाकों में जाने में डरते है! हजारों मिनी पाकिस्तान बनने दिए हमारे हुक्मरानों ने। भारत के टुकड़े करने कि तैयारी पूरी है और हमारी सरकार में हिम्मत नहीं जों खुल के यह खतरा स्वीकार भी कर सकें https://t.co/45gzfbXJlY — Madhu Purnima Kishwar (@madhukishwar) January 21, 2021 Facebook user ‘Chaukidar EK Real Hindustani’ also posted the video and accompanying claim. (Archive link) Bareilly police द्वारा चालान काटने पर शांतिदूतों की ऐसी हरकत सामने आयी हैं😡 शायद ये भूल गए की महाराज जी की प्रदेश में कानून का सम्मान नहीं करोगे तो ऐसी अराजक हरकत का अंजाम क्या होगा, ऐसे लोगो पर शख्त से शख्त कारवाई होनी चाहिए इनका इलाज जरुरी हो गया है। Posted by Chaukidar EK Real Hindustani on Thursday, January 21, 2021 This clip is being circulated widely on Facebook and Twitter. Alt News performed a keyword search and this led us to an Aaj Tak video story from August 29, 2018. In an incident from Ghaziabad, a woman and some bystanders assaulted a policeman. They punched, kicked, and hit the cop with a pair of slippers. The report also carries a statement by then SSP Vaibhav Krishna. Ghaziabad Police had posted Vaibhav Krishna’s video statement on its official Twitter handle on August 27, 2018. The officer says that a man had gotten into an argument with a bank employee in the Loni Police Station area of Ghaziabad. According to the SSP, when the police arrived “some locals, including the woman seen in the clip, began getting physical with the PRV (police response vehicle) personnel. A complaint has been registered in this case. Two people have also been arrested. The others seen in these visuals will be arrested soon.” #Ghaziabadpolice ~ सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल थाना लोनी बॉर्डर क्षेत्र की वीडियो जिसमे ‘पुलिसकर्मी के साथ महिला/युवक द्वारा बदतमीजी/मारपीट’ की जा रही है। उक्त सम्बन्ध में जानकारी देते हुए @SspGhaziabad की वीडियो बाईट। @dgpup @Uppolice @adgzonemeerut @igrangemeerut @upcoprahul pic.twitter.com/TTZ0xuOXxm — GHAZIABAD POLICE (@ghaziabadpolice) August 27, 2018 Jagran reported on August 27, 2018, that a video of a man and his companions beating a policeman with slippers outside the State Bank of India in Balram Nagar Colony on Monday went viral, causing havoc in the department. Reportedly, a fight broke out between a young man, named Imran, and the bank’s employees, over the creation of an Aadhaar card. The article also states that amid the ruckus, the constables posted in PCR 2172 slapped Imran, causing him to faint and fall to the ground. Seeing his condition angered his family members. The woman beating Constable Anoop Kumar with slippers is Imran’s sister. Imran was later admitted to the hospital, meanwhile, the bank employee filed a complaint against him and his family. A 2018 fact-check report by Navbharat Times pertaining to the incident included a press release that lists the names of the accused – 1. Imran, son of Mr. Israel 2. Rashid, son of Akhtar 3. Mohammed Israel, son of Mr. Abdul Shakur 4. Faim, son of Mr. Mohammed Naeem. The four had been arrested while the search for the remaining accused was still on. Apart from this, the Bareilly Police replied to a tweet containing the viral video and wrote, “As far as this video is concerned, it is two years old and from Ghaziabad. The Ghaziabad Police has already investigated and taken action in this incident.” Therefore, the viral clip of a group of people assaulting a constable is not from Bareilly, but Ghaziabad’s Loni Police Station area. A row ensued when a man had an argument with a bank employee over an Aadhar card. Locals got into a physical altercation with the police as well when they arrived. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The CCTV footage of a man violently flinging a child on the ground has created… A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	25th January 2021 / 2:36 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-video-of-a-police-man-beaten-up-by-locals-shared-with-false-claim-of-bareilly-police-beaten-up-by-peaceful-for-challan/", "author": "Kinjal" }
88	2018 video of doctor attacked in MP recirculated amidst Kolkata doctors’ strike - Alt News Pooja Chaudhuri 17th June 2019 / 8:33 pm “দেখুন ঠিক কেন ডাক্তাররা নিরাপত্তা দাবি করছেন। দেখুন পুলিশের ভূমিকা। পরিষ্কার সিসি টিভি ফুটেজ থাকলেও কোন শাস্তি হয় না। (This is exactly why doctors are demanding safety. See the police’s role. Despite a clear CCTV footage, there is no penalty.)” In the backdrop of the ongoing doctors’ protest in Kolkata, the above message is viral in Bengali on social media platforms. The message is circulated with CCTV footage that shows a group of people thrashing a doctor. A cop can be seen in the first few seconds of the clip, however, he does not intercept the violence. From a Facebook page CB Culture, the video received 40,000 views. দেখুন ঠিক কেন ডাক্তাররা নিরাপত্তা দাবি করছেন দেখুন ঠিক কেন ডাক্তাররা নিরাপত্তা দাবি করছেন। দেখুন পুলিশের ভূমিকা। পরিষ্কার সিসি টিভি ফুটেজ থাকলেও কোন শাস্তি হয় না । Posted by CB Culture on Saturday, 15 June 2019 The clip had over 24,000 views from the profile on an individual users Akash Sadhu. Several other users, pages and groups have widely circulated the video in the last 24 hours. The video is also being shared with an English caption. Alt News has received queries of people wondering if the incident pertains to Bengal. A careful glance at the video is sufficient to debunk the false claim that it depicts a recent event. Since it is a CCTV footage, the top left corner of the clip carries a date – ’10-24-2018′. A keyword search with time filter on Facebook led us to an October 31, 2018 report in medicalreportertoday.com. According to the report, the incident took place in the district hospital of Bhind in Madhya Pradesh. The family members of a deceased patient thrashed the on-duty doctor inside his chamber. The report by medicalreportertoday.com also carried the same video uploaded last year. a sad incident happend .. assault on Doctor in Bhind Posted by Medicos United on Monday, 29 October 2018 The incident was also reported by Dainik Bhaskar. According to the media outlet, the death of a 40-year-old patient, Sushma, sparked the attack. The woman was brought to the district hospital where she was examined by Dr RK Agarwal, who later referred the patient to a hospital in Gwalior. However, the patient lost her life while waiting for an ambulance to arrive. In a fit of rage, her family members assaulted Dr Agarwal and also thrashed the windows of his chamber. A SAF guard posted in the hospital witnessed the attack but did nothing to prevent it, per the report. The patient was severely anaemic, with her haemoglobin count less than 3, according to Dainik Bhaskar. An old incident from Madhya Pradesh is being currently circulated on social media with a Bengali text, thus giving a false impression that not only is the incident recent but pertains to West Bengal. Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	17th June 2019 / 8:33 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-video-of-doctor-attacked-in-mp-recirculated-amidst-kolkata-doctors-strike/", "author": "Pooja Chaudhuri" }
89	Fact-check: Was Ramkesh Meena beaten after saffron flag was torn down from Amagarh Fort? - Alt News Kinjal 27th July 2021 / 9:32 pm A saffron flag atop Jaipur’s Amagarh Fort was torn down by a group in the presence of Independent MLA Ramkesh Meena. The politician drew the ire of several Hindutva organizations and locals filed an FIR against unidentified persons. Meena issued a statement saying, “This fort is a historical monument for the Meena community. Some anti-social elements tried to tamper with it, which was unacceptable to the local people.” He also spoke to the channel First India News that aired a video of the flag being taken down. Another video of a mob thrashing a man dressed in white is circulating on Facebook and Twitter. Users claim that locals thrashed MLA Ramkesh Meena for the flag row. Facebook page ‘Shri Bajrang Sena’ wrote, “Ramkesh Meena MLA, who hoisted the saffron flag, the holy flag of Hindu religion in Rajasthan, was chased and beaten by Hindus.” It racked up over 1 lakh views at the time of writing. (Archive link) Facebook user Devesh Tiwari also shared this clip with the same claim. (Archive link) राजस्थान में भगवा ध्वज उतारने वाले रामकेश मीणा विधायक को भगवाप्रेमियों ने दौड़ा दौड़ा कर पीटा .. 😂 😂 😂 😂 Posted by Devesh Tiwari on Saturday, 24 July 2021 It was further amplified by one Subodh Sharma. (Archive link) Ramkesh Meena भड़वा फैक्ट चेकर इसको झूठा वीडियो बता रहा है भगवा ध्वज उतारने वाले रामकेश मीणा विधायक को पूर्व में भी हिन्दुओ द्वारा दौड़ा दौड़ा कर पीटा जा चुका है। राजस्थान में भगवा झंडा उतारने वाले कांग्रेसी विधायक और उसके सहयोगियों को इससे पूर्व भी एक अन्य मामले में दौड़ा-दौड़ा कर पीटा गया था। इस हिंदू विरोधी विधायक को पहले भी कई बार इस तरह के हिंदुओं के विरोध का सामना करना पड़ा है इसकी यह सहज प्रवृत्ति बन गई है हिंदुओं के खिलाफ कार्य करने की इसी के तहत इस ने भगवा झंडा को उतरवाया था Posted by Subodh Sharma on Saturday, 24 July 2021 Alt News performed a keyword search on Youtube, leading us to a video from April 10, 2018. It was titled, “Former MLA Ramkesh Meena chased and beaten in Gangapur”. When we ran a keyword search filtered by time, we came across a News18 report dated April 7, 2018. It said that during the Bharat Bandh on April 2, a group of miscreants beat up Ramkesh Meena in Gangapur city located in Madhopur district. In fact, former Parliamentary Secretary Ramkesh Meena was sitting on a dharna in front of the subdivision office from March 30 in protest of changes to the SC/ST Act. He also led the rally organised during the Bharat Bandh on April 2. There were several arson and stone-pelting incidents at many places as the situation deteriorated during the rally. The report states further that Meena had arrived to reason with the group that was resorting to violence. Paying no heed to him, the angry mob began attacking the politician. His clothes were torn as he was chased and beaten. A video of this had gone viral on social media. In 2018, this clip was falsely shared as BJP MLA beaten by a crowd. India Today had fact-checked the claim back then. Therefore, an old video of a mob attacking Ramkesh Meena, who had come to pacify the same group, was shared on social media as recent. The viral visuals were accompanied by a false claim that Meena was thrashed by a mob in Rajasthan in connection with the tearing down of a saffron flag. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	27th July 2021 / 9:32 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2018-video-of-mob-attacking-ramkesh-meena-falsely-shared-after-saffron-flag-incident/", "author": "Kinjal" }
90	Photo from 2019 Vidyasagar college violence linked to post-poll violence in West Bengal - Alt News Archit 4th May 2021 / 11:33 pm Since post-poll violence erupted in West Bengal, old and unrelated images have been circulating on social media. Twitter user @Hindu_2_o shared a set of images where one of the pictures showed a mob gathered in front of a building in flames. His tweet drew over 1,000 retweets as of the writing. #नींद_से_जागो_अमित_शाह_जी bcz #BengalBurning by #tmcgoons #Shamemamatabannerjee for giving #TMCTerror We want #PresidentRuleInBengal bcz of #BengalViolence Hindus are being killed like KASHMIRIs and BJP pronounce for Nationwide Dharna!! Shame!! Bengal needs a Gopal Patha! pic.twitter.com/RlO0WUgsrc — 𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐔【𝟚.𝕠】प्रशासक समिति✊🚩 (@Hindu_2_o) May 4, 2021 Another user @takale_abhishek posted this image along with others photos and wrote, “We want #PresidentRuleInBengal bcz of #BengalViolence #Hindus are being killed like Kashmiris…” #नींद_से_जागो_अमित_शाह_जी bcz #BengalBurning by #tmcgoons #Shamemamatabannerjee for giving #TMCTerror We want #PresidentRuleInBengal bcz of #BengalViolence #Hindus are being killed like Kashmiris and BJP pronounce for Nationwide Dharna!! Shame!! Bengal needs a Gopal Patha! pic.twitter.com/iAAvuYrCIV — 🚩Abhishek Takale🚩 (@takale_abhishek) May 4, 2021 Twitter user @Priya70554146 shared the image and blamed TMC for the violence. Congratulations to the people of west Bengal for choosing TMC murder crimes Best wishes for your bright future. #BengalViolence pic.twitter.com/WjDDsCOkoT — Priya (@Priya70554146) May 4, 2021 The image in question is from the clash between supporters of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) at Vidyasagar College in May 2019. The image was published by The Statesman and Swaraj Digital. It was credited to Twitter @ishowcase01 (no longer active). The Statesman reported that BJP and TMC supporters fought on the streets of Kolkata during a massive roadshow by Home Minister Amit Shah. Violence at Vidyasagar college had given rise to misinformation before the general elections in 2019. BJP members and supporters denied that the party played any role in the violence. Alt News had published an elaborate report on the claims made by Amit Shah. A two-year-old photo has thus been falsely linked to post-poll violence in West Bengal. 🙏 Blessed to have worked as a fact-checking journalist from November 2019 to February 2023. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	4th May 2021 / 11:33 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2019-image-of-clash-between-bjp-and-aitc-shared-as-post-poll-violence-in-bengal/", "author": "Archit" }
91	BJP accused of bribing voters in 2019, video falsely linked to recent UP polls - Alt News Kinjal 8th March 2022 / 6:43 pm Om Thanvi, founding vice-chancellor of the Haridev Joshi University of Journalism and Mass Communication, tweeted a video on March 4, 2022. The clip was taken from a News18 broadcast in which a group of people claim BJP workers paid them for not casting their votes, and falsely applied ink on their fingers. It has been claimed that the incident occurred in the Tarajivanpur village in Uttar Pradesh, located in the Chandauli district. The footage garnered over 4,000 retweets and was liked by over 9,000 handles. (Archive link) दुनिया का सबसे बड़ा लोकतंत्र! 😏 pic.twitter.com/6cDlBTiO3q — Om Thanvi (@omthanvi) March 4, 2022 The video is circulating against the backdrop of the recently-concluded UP elections. Twitter user ‘@dhrubachoudhur5’ also promoted this video with a similar claim. (Archive link) यह तो हद हो गया @narendramodi जी और @myogiadityanath जी…कुछ भी करलो…हारना तो तय है… आप भी देखिये…और अधिक से अधिक इसको शेयर करें ताकि सबको पता चले… End… pic.twitter.com/q02tNIqo7P — Dhruba Budhadev Choudhury✋🏿 (@dhrubachoudhur5) March 5, 2022 North-East Mumbai Congress Seva Dal further amplified the claim. (Archive link) वाह मोदी जी वाह, भाजपा का हारना तय है… इसीलिए ऐसा पैसों से वोट खरीदा जा रहे है… Part -2 pic.twitter.com/ovuS6id363 — North East Mumbai Congress Sevadal (@SevadalNEM) March 5, 2022 Several other users on Facebook and Twitter posted this video, linking it to UP assembly elections. Quote-tweeting Thanvi’s tweet, Chandauli police clarified that the incident is actually from 2019. It also said that appropriate action was taken during the case. प्रकरण वर्ष 2019 लोकसभा चुनाव के समय का है जिसमें तत्समय आवश्यक कार्यवाही की जा चुकी है इसे #विधानसभाचुनाव2022 से जोड़ कर कृपया बिना तथ्यों की सही जानकारी व पुष्टि के भ्रामकता न फैलाएं।#UPPolice @UPPViralCheck https://t.co/Af0rEGy8DH pic.twitter.com/BR5eMFWB3I — Chandauli Police (@chandaulipolice) March 5, 2022 A News18 article dated May 19, 2019, carried the viral footage. Residents from a Dalit basti in the Tarajivanpur village claimed that BJP workers paid them Rs 500 in return for not voting. They also alleged that their fingers were marked with ink. The report states, “Chandauli SDM Harsh Kumar explained that he received information about residents in a Dalit basti of the Tarajivanpur village who were involved in a cash for votes scheme. They alleged that BJP workers paid them for not voting and marked their fingers.” It is noteworthy that BJP state president Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey was campaigning from Chandauli during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In the viral video, the workers are levelling accusations against him. Pandey is currently a BJP MP from the Chandauli constituency. ANI UP/Uttarakhand also tweeted some pictures of the incident on May 19, 2019. The post quoted SDM Harsh Kumar as saying that a complaint had been registered in this matter. He added that the complainant was still eligible to vote since the election had not yet commenced. The SDM also stated that the complainants would have to mention in the FIR that ink was forcefully applied on their fingers. Chandauli: Residents of Tara Jivanpur village allege ink was forcefully applied to their fingers & they were given Rs 500 y’day by 3 men of their village. Say, “They were from BJP&asked us if we’ll vote for the party. They told us now you can’t vote. Don’t tell anyone.” (18.05) pic.twitter.com/yICJKNPwdt — ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) May 19, 2019 To sum it up, during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, people from the Tarajivanpur village in Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh accused BJP workers of bribing them to not cast their votes. A video of the incident was falsely circulated in connection with the recent Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	8th March 2022 / 6:43 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2019-video-from-loksabha-election-shared-as-fraud-in-up-by-bjp-members/", "author": "Kinjal" }
92	Old video of couple swimming in flooded home in Prayagraj shared as Delhi - Alt News Kinjal 17th August 2020 / 4:00 pm Abhishek Dutt, Vice President of the Delhi Congress, shared a video on August 13. In the video, a man can be seen teaching a woman how to swim in floodwater that has entered their home. Dutt taunted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in his caption, writing, “World-class swimming pool, another promise fulfilled?” Please don’t even mention Kejriwal ji’s name.” (archived link to the tweet). The video received over 1 lakh views and close to 900 retweets as of this writing. Following his footsteps was fellow Congress politician Alka Lamba, who retweeted Dutt’s tweet (archived version of the tweet). This is too much…. #Delhi https://t.co/8fnMAl6Lfu — Alka Lamba – अल्का लाम्बा 🇮🇳🙏 (@LambaAlka) August 13, 2020 Adarsh Shastri, former Congress MLA from Dwarka, also retweeted the video taking a dig at the Delhi government, “A great gift by @ArvindKejriwal government to the people of Delhi. World-class swimming pools all over Delhi @Ch_AnilKumarINC @INCDelhi” (tweet archive link). दिल्ली की जनता को @ArvindKejriwal सरकार द्वारा शानदार टोफ़ा। पूरी दिल्ली में जगह जगह विश्व स्तरीय स्विमिंग पूल। @Ch_AnilKumarINC @INCDelhi pic.twitter.com/C5i38DdNB4 — Adarsh Shastri (@adarshshastri) August 13, 2020 A Facebook page called ‘Syed Shafiulla – AIMIM Amberpet’ shared the video with the same claim (archived version of the post). विश्व स्तरीय स्विमिंग पूल ,एक और वादा पूरा ? कृपया करके केजरीवाल जी का नाम ना लें Posted by Syed Shafiullah – AIMIM Amberpet on Thursday, 13 August 2020 The video was being circulated on Facebook and Twitter in the same manner. Upon running a keyword search, we unearthed an Aaj Tak report about this viral video that was published on September 21, 2019. It stated that the video was shot during the September 2019 floods in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. Aaj Tak had shared the video and wrote, “Heavy rains have triggered flood-like situation in Prayagraj. On the one hand, where people are compelled to leave their houses as flood water entered their residence, some couples decided to learn swimming. Watch this cute video of a couple enjoying in floodwater in the boundaries of their homes.” Another article published on the same date in Rajasthan Patrika also covered the video. It too stated that it was shot in the city of Prayagraj. On September 22, 2019, news channel India News had broadcast a video report about the couple swimming in floodwater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_xParlW2Oc Heavy spells of retreating monsoon rains had flooded various parts of Uttar Pradesh in September 2019 which left thousands of people homeless. An old video clip from Prayagraj was wrongly shared as Delhi. Many users shared the video of a man teaching his wife to swim in their flooded home thinking it was taken recently. A number of senior leaders from the Congress shared the video targetting Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	17th August 2020 / 4:00 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2019-video-of-a-couple-swimming-in-floodwater-at-home-in-prayagraj-uttar-pradesh-shared-as-delhi-by-congress-leaders/", "author": "Kinjal" }
93	Hardik Patel facing people's ire in Gujarat? Old video shared with false claim - Alt News Kinjal 22nd October 2022 / 6:57 pm / Last updated: 22nd October 2022 A video of BJP leader Hardik Patel is viral on social media where some people can be seen expressing their displeasure over the youth leader who shot to fame with the Patidar community movement. In the video, people can be heard saying in Gujarati, “Ask whoever you may. It will unravel with time…the case you are referring to. Watch Shehla Rashid’s interview on the Russian TV channel RT…not everything is laid out clearly in the case. You might be able to defeat an individual or a party, but you don’t have to forge an alliance with such people for that, right? Not everything is part of an FIR. What is of importance is your speech. You might have the entire world standing behind you boss, but it is out of the question to seek an alliance with others…” Twitter user Shubham, tweeting the video, wrote, it was the public that drove away the BJP leader Hardik Patel because people of Gujarat were disgruntled with the party. भाजपा नेता हार्दिक पटेल को जनता ने भगाया… गुजरात के लोग बहुत नाराज़ हैं भाजपा से. pic.twitter.com/aAmoNKhPsE — Shubham 🇮🇳 (@shubh_ind) October 10, 2022 Hardik Patel had joined the Congress in 2019. He switched over to the BJP in June 2022. Currently, this video is being shared in light of the upcoming assembly elections in the state. User Manu Azad also tweeted the video with a similar message. भाजपा नेता हार्दिक पटेल को जनता ने भगाया..😂😂 गुजरात के लोग बहुत नाराज़ हैं भाजपा से… pic.twitter.com/FrPBodGR9T — Manu Azad (@manuazad_) October 10, 2022 Several other users have posted this video with similar claims. To verify the claims in the video, Alt News conducted related keyword searches on Youtube, which led us to a report on March 26, 2019, published in Republic World. The report mentioned that some people had objected to Hardik Patel joining the Congress in Ahmedabad. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCyeFy3olUA] Upon further investigation, we came across a report published by Desh Gujarat. The report mentioned that Congress leaders Hardik Patel and Alpesh Thakor were at the Prahladnagar Garden in Ahmedabad, for an interview with TV9 Gujurati. At that moment, several people out on their morning walk approached him with questions. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHBM9kWtyng] Gujarati channel VTV News had also reported the incident. This shows that the video of people expressing their disapproval of Hardik Patel is at least three-year old, when he was a Congress leader. The old video is being shared in light of the upcoming Gujarat assembly elections with the false claim that Hardik is unpopular with people now. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	22nd October 2022 / 6:57 pm / Last updated: 22nd October 2022	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2019-video-of-hardik-patel-confronted-by-people-shared-as-recent-ahead-of-gujarat-election/", "author": "Kinjal" }
94	Old video of Patanjali's Balkrishna in hospital viral amid Ramdev's remarks against allopathy - Alt News Kinjal 2nd June 2021 / 11:24 am A video that shows Patanjali Ayurveda chairman Acharya Balkrishna lying on a hospital bed is being circulated widely on social media. Baba Ramdev also appears towards the end of the clip. One Sonu Jangra shared the footage on Twitter, where it garnered 3,700 views as of this writing. (Archive link) पंतजलि के बालकृष्ण की तबियत बिगड़ी #बाबा_रामदेव सीधे हॉस्पिटल लेकर गए ना ही पंतजलि का कोई भी प्रोडक्ट दिया जब तो बोल रहे थे हवा से ऑक्सीजन खींचो ओर आज ऑक्सीजन पहले लगा दी है कल तक तो रामदेव डॉक्टर्स को टर-टर बोल रहा था आज डॉक्टर्स में उनको जीवनदान दिख रहा है पूरा वीडियो देखें 👇 pic.twitter.com/8XSpEjS840 — Sonu Jangra INC 🇮🇳🙏 (@SonuJangraINC01) May 27, 2021 Baba Ramdev has been under fire from the medical fraternity for his objectionable remarks about allopathy. Doctors across the country have called for a boycott of the yoga guru and Patanjali. The visuals of Balkrishna admitted to a hospital have gone viral in the midst of these developments. Several Twitter users shared the video as recent. It has also been circulated on Facebook. पंतजलि कंपनी के मालिक बालकृष्ण की तबियत बिगड़ी #पतंजलि_के_ब्रांड_एम्बेसडर_बाबा_रामदेव_जी सीधे हॉस्पिटल लेकर गए, ना ही पंतजलि का कोई भी प्रोडक्ट दिया जब तो बोल रहे थे हवा से ऑक्सीजन खींचो ओर आज ऑक्सीजन पहले लगा दी है पूरा वीडियो देखें 👇 मैं बालकृष्ण जी की जल्द स्वास्थ्य होने की कामना करता हूँ जो बकलोल भाई #आई_सपोर्ट_रामदेव लिख रहे थे उनके गाल पर कड़ा तमाचा हैं । Posted by Anurag Anand on Saturday, May 29, 2021 We have received a number of requests on the Alt News official mobile app (Android, iOS) and WhatsApp helpline number (+91 7600 11160) to verify the viral video. First off, we noticed that none of the individuals seen here, including the doctors, are wearing a mask. The absence of masks inside a hospital during the middle of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic raises doubts over the clip’s recency. A keyword search led us to a Facebook post by media outlet One India Hindi where this video was shared. It stated that an old video of Acharya Balkrishna has gone viral following the flurry of media attention around Ramdev’s remarks against allopathy. The visuals were actually taken when he was admitted to AIIMS due to a sudden deterioration in his health. …जब पतंजली वाले बालकृष्ण पड़े थे बीमार, AIIMS में कराए गए थे भर्ती, पुराना वीडियो हो रहा है वायरल एलोपैथी पर बयान और कंट्रोवर्सी के बाद आचार्य बालकृष्ण का पुराना वीडियो हो रहा है वायरल, जब उन्हें बीमार होने पर एम्स में भर्ती कराया गया था #BabaRamdev#acharyabalkrishna #patanjali Posted by Oneindia Hindi on Saturday, May 29, 2021 A subsequent keyword search on Facebook revealed that the video had been posted to the social networking site in August 2019 (1, 2, 3). It had also been shared on Twitter around that time. देशवासियों को आयुर्वेद के फायदे बताकर खुद अरबपति बन गया = बालकृष्ण ” अपने पर आई तो AIIMS पहुँच गया ! बुलाओ इसे चौराहे पर …… गौमूत्र वैज्ञानिक को ! pic.twitter.com/t5NV7oyd67 — Archana Singh (@BPPDELNP) August 26, 2019 A Kanak News story dated August 23, 2019, carried a statement by Ramdev on the condition of his close aide. Balkrishna suddenly took ill within 15 minutes of consuming a holy offering at a Janmashtami function. He was taken to Bhumanand Hospital after he fell unconscious. He was later shifted to AIIMS Rishikesh where his health improved considerably. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaggQBU0p-c] Dainik Jagran had also covered the Patanjali CEO’s sudden decline in health. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euv7znx7Cck] Therefore, an old video of Balkrishna was falsely shared as recent amid the ongoing tussle between Patanjali and the Indian Medical Association. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	2nd June 2021 / 11:24 am	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2019-video-of-patanjali-acharya-balkrishna-viral-as-recent-after-ramdevs-statement-against-allopathy-and-doctors/", "author": "Kinjal" }
95	2019 video of Shiv Sena members assaulting man, shaving his head viral as recent - Alt News Archit 18th September 2020 / 9:01 pm A video has gone viral with the claim that members of Shiv Sena shaved another man’s head and assaulted him. The video is circulating against the backdrop of Shiv Sena members caught thrashing an ex-Navy man on camera. This video is viral with the Hindi text, “In your Maharashtra, has Uddhav Thackeray’s government become a government of goons? Law has become a joke. (आपको की महाराष्ट्र में उद्धव ठाकरे की सरकार गुंडों की सरकार बन गयी है ? क़ानून का मज़ाक़ बना कर रख दिया.) Twitter user @abbas_nighat posted the video along with the viral text on September 14. It has been retweeted over 17,000 times and has 8 lakh plus views. (archived link) क्या अब लगता हे आपको की महाराष्ट्र में उद्धव ठाकरे की सरकार गुंडों की सरकार बन गयी है ? क़ानून का मज़ाक़ बना कर रख दिया 😡😡 Kindly RT pic.twitter.com/S17wQ9K8Qo — Nighat Abbass (@abbas_nighat) September 14, 2020 Similarly Facebook page Acche Din posted the viral video on September 14. It has been viewed over 20 lakh times. (archived link) The video has been shared across social media by Facebook and Twitter users. Alt News performed a keyword search on YouTube and found that the incident indeed took place, however, it’s from last year. The video was aired by several media outlets including NDTV, HW News English, Mumbai Live, and Republic TV. As per the reports, the incident happened in December 2019, and the man who was attacked is Hiramani Tiwari. As per The Hindu, an FIR was filed against Shiv Sena leader Samadhan Jugdar and three others for unlawful assembly, rioting, assault, intentional insult to provoke breach of peace, and criminal intimidation under the Indian Penal Code at Wadala TT police station. Wadala tonsuring incident: FIR registered against #ShivSena leader \| reports @NotMengele https://t.co/Kv3xMBs7n6 — The Hindu-Mumbai (@THMumbai) December 26, 2019 While speaking to Republic, Tiwari said that he had called Uddhav Thackeray takle (bald) while criticizing him for linking police action on Jamia campus to Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. After he posted this, Tiwari’s acquaintances from Shiv Sena pointed out he should delete the post. Despite doing so, Tiwari was attacked by 25 Shiv Sena members a day later. Tiwari added that police arrived shortly after the incident and arrested the culprits however Tiwari was advised to strike a compromise. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68vKDSp3HXI?start=201] Maharashtra CM’s son Aaditya Thackeray wrote on December 24, 2019, “Law and order is a subject of police and shouldn’t be taken into anyone’s hands.” Our statement on trolls and reactions. pic.twitter.com/AvTUnAZo5H — Aaditya Thackeray (@AUThackeray) December 24, 2019 The video shows Shiv Sena members assaulting a man for his post on social media. This incident happened on December 22, 2019. It was shared without any context thus misleading viewers to believe that the incident took place recently. 🙏 Blessed to have worked as a fact-checking journalist from November 2019 to February 2023. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	18th September 2020 / 9:01 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2019-video-of-shiv-sena-members-assaulting-man-shaving-his-head-viral-as-recent/", "author": "Archit" }
96	Did this woman criticise Rahul Gandhi for opposing PM Modi on Kashmir issue? - Alt News Kinjal 6th July 2022 / 6:00 pm / Last updated: 6th July 2022 A video of Rahul Gandhi has gone viral on social media. In the video, the Congress leader is seated inside an aeroplane when a woman asks him, “Little children aren’t able to go out. If they step out to look for each other, they are caught. My brother is a heart patient. He went out to look for his children. We were not told where he was for 10 days. We feel defeated in every way.” Sharing these videos, it has been claimed that Kashmiri Pandits living abroad asked Rahul Gandhi why he was opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Kashmir issue. Twitter user Nikhil Rajput tweeted the video with this claim. (Archive link) विदेश में रह रहे कश्मीरी पंडितों ने हवाई जहाज में यात्रा के दौरान Rahul Gandhi को घेर कर सवाल पूछे कि वो कश्मीर के मामलों पर मोदी का विरोध क्यों करते हैं? इसका कोई जवाब राहुल गांधी नहीं दे पाया, राष्ट्रीय मीडिया शायद ही ये न्यूज़ दिखा पाए। pic.twitter.com/mgXRnXMvnk — Nikhil Rajput 🗨️ (@Nikhilrajput21) July 1, 2022 Twitter handle ‘@AshishK_BJP’ also amplified the video and accompanying claim. (Archive link) हवाई यात्रा के दौरान विदेश में रह रहे कश्मीरी पंडितों ने हवाई जहाज में @RahulGandhi को घेर कर सवाल पूछे कि वो कश्मीर के मामलों पर प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi जी का विरोध क्यों करते हैं..!! देखिये कोई जबाव नहीं दे पाए कांग्रेस के राजकुमार..!! pic.twitter.com/IvZQOcpsPa — Ashish kaushik (@AshishK_BJP) July 1, 2022 Dainik Bhaskar Jaipur editor Doonger Singh also shared the clip. (Archive link) #राहुलजी_को_कश्मीरी_पंडितों_का_दर्द समझ आया ही होगा। क्योंकि उनके पङदादा कश्मीर से ही थे विदेश में रह रहे कश्मीरी पंडितों ने हवाई जहाज में यात्रा के दौरान @RahulGandhi को घेर कर सवाल पूछे कि वो कश्मीर के मामलों पर मोदी का विरोध क्यों करते हैं। @BJP4JnK @vivekagnihotri @PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/HAr1MSRTqT — Doonger Singh (@dsrajpurohit291) July 1, 2022 RSS mouthpiece Organiser Weekly, film director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, RSS Hindi weekly magazine Panchjanya, BJP Delhi spokesperson Ajay Sehrawat, Panchjanya social media coordinator Shivam Dixit, and BJP-affiliated Dr Abhilash Pandey were also among those who tweeted the video with a similar claim. The footage is widespread on Facebook and Twitter. Alt News fact-checked this video back in August 2019 when it was circulating with a similar claim on social media. An NDTV report dated August 26, 2019 states that the video was shot after Rahul Gandhi’s tour of Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian government repealed the provisions of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019. Following this, local leaders were detained in Jammu and Kashmir and internet services were also shut down. Rahul Gandhi had flown to the valley at that time to meet with locals but was forced to return from Srinagar Airport. Meanwhile, a woman on his flight from Srinagar began talking with Gandhi, sharing the plight of the Kashmiri people. Scenes from the viral video appear at the 1:19 mark in the report below. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRxTs0gDQMc] This video was tweeted by journalist Arun Kumar Singh of News18 on August 24, 2019. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also targeted the Indian government while retweeting Singh’s post. How long is this going to continue?This is one out of millions of people who are being silenced and crushed in the name of “Nationalism”. For those who accuse the opposition of ‘politicising’ this issue: https://t.co/IMLmnTtbLb — Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) August 25, 2019 To sum it up, this video is from August 2019 when Section 370 was repealed in Jammu and Kashmir. The video features a woman telling Rahul Gandhi about the challenges faced by the people of Kashmir. It has now been shared with the false claim that she was questioning Gandhi’s opposition to PM Modi on the Kashmir issue. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	6th July 2022 / 6:00 pm / Last updated: 6th July 2022	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2019-video-of-woman-narrating-plight-of-kashmiris-to-rahul-gandhi-shared-again-with-false-claim/", "author": "Kinjal" }
97	Video from 2019 falsely shared as massive crowd at Diego Maradona's funeral - Alt News Anuradha Prasad 5th December 2020 / 2:37 pm Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona passed away on November 25 at the age of 60 from a heart attack. Shortly before his death, he was undergoing an operation to remove a blood clot from his brain. The football star was laid to rest in his hometown, the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires on November 26. Following this, several users posted a video on social media showing a huge crowd of people gathered at a stadium. Twitter user @Exsecular, who is followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, shared the video claiming it shows the crowd at Maradona’s funeral. (Archive link) #Maradona funeral ! Via WA pic.twitter.com/8kUa6V5swI — Exsecular (@ExSecular) November 27, 2020 A few other Twitter users (1, 2) also shared the clip with the same claim. This claim also made its way to Facebook. Vega Entertainment, a verified Facebook page, shared the video claiming Maradona’s fans gathered at the stadium for his last rites. (Archive link) Diego Maradona’s funeral procession today. #DiegoMaradona’s funeral procession today. Mesmerizing. What does it indicate ? A man par excellence. He is neither a president nor a prime minister of any country. His performance in football ground spoke for him. So much of Love, adulation & respect who gets these days ? He will remain immortal in the hearts of football fans. Maradona..U have gone now in the safe hands of God, but whole football fraternity will remember U as ” God of Football” like our own living legend Sachin Tendulkar as ” God of cricket” Maradona..Bravo May your soul rest in eternal peace in the lap of Almighty. 🙏🙏🙏 #Diego #Maradona #Argentinefootballplayer #footballplayer #VegaEntertainment Posted by Vega Entertainment on Thursday, November 26, 2020 Alt News performed a reverse image search of a few frames of the clip and found a fact check report by news agency AFP dated June 13, 2020. This itself proves the video could not possibly depict Maradona’s funeral. The report states that the video was earlier viral as a “demonstration against Argentina’s president, Alberto Fernandez”. Local newspaper La Nacion reported on October 20, 2019, that a crowd had gathered near the Obelisk memorial in Buenos Aires ahead of the upcoming elections in support of then-president Mauricio Macri. Therefore, this clip shows a group of people attending an election rally. AFP also included Macri’s tweet containing a picture of the aerial view of the rally. Multitudinario #19o. #SíSePuede pic.twitter.com/DJWofhRr5t — Mauricio Macri (@mauriciomacri) October 19, 2019 Comparing the frame appearing at the 13-second mark in the viral clip with the photo in this tweet confirms that both were taken at the same rally. Macri had also broadcast a Facebook Live from the event which can be found on his official Facebook page. This picture was also shared on his Instagram profile. Therefore, the video is actually a year old and it shows a massive crowd gathered at the election rally of Argentina’s former president Mauricio Macri. It does not depict Maradona’s funeral processions. A journalist and a dilettante person who always strives to learn new skills and meeting new people. Either sketching or working. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	5th December 2020 / 2:37 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2019-video-shared-as-huge-crowed-gathered-in-footballer-maradonas-funeral/", "author": "Anuradha Prasad" }
98	Old video of PFI rally falsely shared as Muslim army marching in Kerala - Alt News Kinjal 5th April 2022 / 8:11 pm / Last updated: 5th April 2022 A video of a marching band parade is circulating on social media with the claim that it depicts a private Muslim army marching in Kerala. “This is what is happening in a Hindu majority country,” wrote a user. This is what’s happening in a Hindu majority country… Muslim private army marching in Kerala. pic.twitter.com/UmsLVbou93 — Arjun Rajput (@Ap62Rajput) March 31, 2022 The video is widespread on Twitter with the above claim. This is supposed to be the Muslim Army, taking a procession in Kerala! Does anyone know more about this?@HMOIndia pic.twitter.com/ZVQ1dpzPO7 — Shiv (@Shivana05277794) March 27, 2022 It is also circulating on Facebook. The same video was posted on February 17, 2022 as an SDPI rally. SDPI is a political party affiliated with the Popular Front of India (PFI). Alt News also performed a keyword search and found a video from February 17, 2020 that said the PFI took out a rally in Ernakulam, Kerala. PFI Kerala had also shared a clip taken at the same rally. A poster seen in the viral video resembles the one in the PFI march video. It reads, ‘Popular Front of India Unity March’ in Malayalam. Malayalam media outlet Madhyamam also covered the rally in a February 18, 2020 report. This was a unity day march held on February 17, 2020. PFI was established on February 17 in 2007 and members of the party annually celebrate the occasion. To sum it up, a 2020 video of a PFI rally in Kerala was falsely circulated as a private Muslim army marching in the streets. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	5th April 2022 / 8:11 pm / Last updated: 5th April 2022	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2020-pfi-unity-day-march-video-shared-with-false-anti-muslim-angle/", "author": "Kinjal" }
99	2020 video from Perth, Australia being shared as Bengaluru cloudburst - Alt News Indradeep Bhattacharyya 9th September 2022 / 5:34 pm Many parts of Bengaluru were inundated after the city received extremely heavy torrential rain over the past week. The Press Trust of India reported that Bengaluru City observatory of the India Meteorological Department recorded 251.4 mm of rainfall between September 4 and September 7, including 131.6 mm on the 4th, the highest 24-hour precipitation in September in 34 years. Against this backdrop, a 13-second time-lapse video of a cloudburst is being shared widely on social media claiming that it is from Bengaluru. Twitter user Zeenat Dar, who identifies herself as a psychologist and journalist, tweeted the clip saying it showed a cloudburst in Bangalore on September 4. Bangalore cloud burst timelapse gripping video of 04 Sep 2022 as claimed #bangalorefloods #bangaloreflood #bangalore #timelapse pic.twitter.com/4cKxDoACZ6 — Zeenat Dar (@zeenat_daar93) September 8, 2022 Another handle by the name of BackBencher tweeted the video on September 7 and wrote “Someone took a timelapse video of the cloud burst yesterday in Bangalore. Spectacular and scary too.” ᴍʏ ғʀɪᴇɴᴅ ғʀᴏᴍ ʙᴀɴɢᴀʟᴏʀᴇ ᴠɪᴀ ᴡʜᴀᴛsᴀᴘᴘ Someone took a timelapse video of the cloud burst yesterday in Bangalore. Spectacular and scary too. 😨😨😟😟🧐🧐🧐👇 pic.twitter.com/oyhM3OAfzT — 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓🔖 (@Bckbncher) September 7, 2022 Many other handles on the micro-blogging site shared the same video claiming it was from Bangalore. On Facebook, a user named Shantanu Basu shared the same video. “Someone took a timelapse video of the cloud burst yesterday in Bangalore. Spectacular and scary too.”, he wrote. The post was shared close to 80 times. ☝️Someone took a timelapse video of the cloud burst yesterday in Bangalore. Spectacular and scary too. Posted by Shantanu Basu on Wednesday, 7 September 2022 Alt News received multiple requests on its helpline number +91 76000 11160 to check the authenticity of the clip. On reverse searching the keyframes of the video and doing a keyword search using Google and Yandex, Alt News found that the video was posted on Facebook by Kane Artie, a landscape photographer based in Perth, Western Australia. Sharing the 29-second video on the Kane Artie Photography page on February 25, 2020, he described his experience of shooting it. He wrote: “Well this afternoons front that rolled in was something else! I made a last minute dash down the road to the viewing area at the Perth Airport as I knew I would have a nice open area to shoot. So glad I did. I got absolutely drenched running back down the ramp, and nearly got blown over with the gusts that came through. I had to hang on to the fence to stay on my feet. Was it worth it….. Hell yes” We also found that Higgins Storm Chasing, a website providing weather forecasts, warnings, updates, photos & videos from across Australia, shared Kane Artie’s post on the same day and wrote: “WOW! Incredible footage of severe storms impacting Perth this afternoon. Amazing capture of the wall of water cascading down from the clouds as the storms entered the City region.” WOW! Incredible footage of severe storms impacting Perth this afternoon. Amazing capture of the wall of water cascading… Posted by Higgins Storm Chasing on Tuesday, 25 February 2020 To confirm the origin of the video, we reached out to Kane Artie, the photographer, and shared the clip with him. “Yes, it was shot by me here in Perth in February 2020,” he told Alt News. Hence, it is evident that the video being shared on social media as showing a cloudburst in Bengaluru is fake. It is, in actuality, a video of a cloudburst in Perth, Australia on February 25, 2020. Indradeep, a journalist with over 10 years' experience in print and digital media, is a Senior Editor at Alt News. Earlier, he has worked with The Times of India and The Wire. Politics and literature are among his areas of interest. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	9th September 2022 / 5:34 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2020-video-from-perth-australia-being-shared-as-bengaluru-cloudburst/", "author": "Indradeep Bhattacharyya" }
100	Photo of Israeli airstrike in Gaza Strip shared as 'Russia-Ukraine conflict' - Alt News Archit 25th February 2022 / 5:27 pm An image of two explosions in a city has been linked to the ongoing Russian military operations in Ukraine. Several social media accounts have posted this image, including the verified Facebook page ‘Record TV Kenya‘. Using the social media monitoring tool, CrowdTangle, we found several Facebook accounts have posted the image. The post by ‘meme Nepal’ gained over 11,000 likes. Many on Twitter has shared the same image. Alt News performed a reverse image search and found that the image is from an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip in May 2021. As per Getty Images, photographer Mahmud Hams took this picture. The image’s caption reads, “A picture shows Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, on May 10, 2021. – Israel launched deadly air strikes on Gaza in response to a barrage of rockets fired by the Islamist movement Hamas amid spiralling violence sparked by unrest at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.” An old image of Israeli airstrike in Gaza Strip has been linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 🙏 Blessed to have worked as a fact-checking journalist from November 2019 to February 2023. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	25th February 2022 / 5:27 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2021-israeli-air-strikes-on-gaza-strip-shared-as-russias-attack-on-ukraine/", "author": "Archit" }
101	25 year old Dalit MPhil student from JNU commits suicide - Alt News Pratik Sinha 13th March 2017 / 10:52 pm Muthukrishanan Jeevanantham (Rajni Krish), a 25-year-old 1st year MPhil student of Centre for Historical Studies at JNU, has reportedly committed suicide at a friend’s house in Munirka Vihar in Delhi. Last year, on 17 January 2016, yet another Dalit Scholar, Rohith Vemula had committed suicide in University of Hyderabad. Another JNU student, Pallikonda Manikanta, wrote the following at 6:43 p.m on his Facebook profile. At 7:05 p.m. Pallikonda wrote again on Facebook stating that Police were taking away Krish’s body and that his family’s contact numbers were needed urgently. In Krish’s last Facebook post on March 10th, 3 days before his death, he had written about the inquality in admission procedure and how students are denied a place to protest. In yet another Facebook post on July 26, 2016, he had written about how difficult it was for him to get into JNU. Many people wrote heartfelt condolence messages on his Facebook Profile. Co-Founder Alt News, I can be reached via E-mail at [email protected] and on Facebook at https://fb.com/freethinker. Follow @free_thinker Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	13th March 2017 / 10:52 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/25-year-old-dalit-mphil-student-jnu-commits-suicide/", "author": "Pratik Sinha" }
102	"THIS IS THE 29/10 BOMBER", screamed Hindustan Times. Court acquitted him 12 years later. Media accountability? - Alt News Pratik Sinha 24th February 2017 / 7:15 pm / Last updated: 24th February 2017 “THIS IS THE 29/10 BOMBER”, claimed the title of a Hindustan Times article in capital bold letters after the arrest of Mohammed Rafiq Shah in relation with 2005 Delhi Blasts thus imprinting the face of this 22 year old Masters student as the killer of 62 people in the minds of lakhs of readers who came across this copy of Hindustan Times. Mohammed Rafiq Shah has been acquitted 12 years later on 16th February 2017. While we can talk ad infinitum about how investigative agencies of our country repeatedly frame innocent youth, especially those with a Muslim name, we must also talk about the role that media plays in villainizing the accused even before the court proceedings start. In recent past, there have been innumerable cases where scores of Muslims have been acquitted by courts – Haren Pandya case, Akshardham case, Ahmedabad blasts case etc. There are many other cases where people have been killed in encounters claiming that these people are on a terrorism mission and the encounters have been later found to be fake. Even in such cases, media has behaved as an extension of the establishment instead of asking questions. The below news clipping is that of Times of India on Jun 17th 2004, two days after Ishrat Jahaan, Pranesh Pillai urf Javed Sheikh and two others were gunned down by Gujarat Police. Gujarat Police claimed that these four were out to kill the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi. While the aforementioned encounter has been found to be prima facie fake by multiple investigative agencies including SIT and CBI, the above headline declared that Pranesh Pillai was the “Modi ‘killer’ who had converted to Islam for love”. TV media also plays an equal part in painting accused in various cases as terrorists much before the investigation or court proceedings start. It is time that certain laws are enacted which bring to book the media houses/journalists for villainizing the accused with false unverified information. Co-Founder Alt News, I can be reached via E-mail at [email protected] and on Facebook at https://fb.com/freethinker. Follow @free_thinker Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	24th February 2017 / 7:15 pm / Last updated: 24th February 2017	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/2910-bomber-screamed-hindustan-times-court-acquitted-12-years-later-media-accountability/", "author": "Pratik Sinha" }
103	3 Hindu men wanting to buy 5 cow heads at 'any price' scares the residents of Birbhum, WB - Alt News Pratik Sinha 7th April 2017 / 3:46 pm On the day of Ram Navami, in a town called Rajnagar in Birbhum district in West Bengal, 3 Hindu men wanting to buy cow heads at any quoted price greatly scared the locals. We received the reports, pictures and video of this incident from Khan Sahil Mazhar who is a local journalist there. West Bengal is one of the few states in India along with Kerala, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim where cow slaughter is legally allowed and is governed by their respective state laws. Reportedly, three men came down to Rajnagar main meat market and asked one of the butchers there for 5 cow heads. The butcher reportedly quoted 3 times the regular price for the 5 heads and the 3 youth agreed without any bargaining. Since the butcher did not have 5 heads, he informed them that they can buy the 3 heads he has. While these people were buying the 3 heads and putting it into a sack, another butcher who is a more aged man and was in the nearby shop recognised one of the men in the group as he used to frequent the Rajnagar main market to buy cow skin as he was in the leather business. The fact that he was buying cow head instead of the usual cow skin made the aged butcher suspicious. When the aged butcher vocalised his doubts, multiple butchers from nearby shops stopped these 3 men and started questioning them. The man who used to frequent the Rajnagar main market for cow skin identified himself as Sufal Das. When the other two youth were questioned, one of them stated that he’s from a village called Tantipara. The third guy, however, first stated that he belonged to Lokpur, Birbhum and then later revised that to Kuldanga, Jharkhand. When they were asked for the reason as to why they needed 5 heads, Sufal Das intervened and reportedly stated that some villager in his village had gone medically insane and the local doctor had asked for cow heads for the purpose of research to treat the patient. This weird reason aggravated the doubts that the locals were starting to have. They further questioned Sufal Das, “Even if we believe your story, why would you need 5 heads for research instead of just 1 or 2?”. To this, Sufal Das reportedly had no answer. At this point of time, the third person who was giving multiple answers regarding where he hailed from and was refusing to identify himself fled the scene. The other two men were also allowed to leave after more questioning. As soon as the two men left, the locals spread the news everywhere and reported the incident in Rajnagar police station along with the pictures of the three people and requested the police to investigate the matter and specifically find out as to what was the intention of these youth to demand 5 heads first and then buy 3 heads at a highly inflated price. The police reportedly assured the butchers that due process and investigation will be carried out. After this incident, the locals were in a constant state of alert as they suspected that the cow heads could be thrown in a sensitive place leading to an aggravated situation. They also rued the fact that they let the 3 men go instead of handing them over to the police. Alt News also spoke to SP Birbhum Shri N. Sudheer Kumar and he denied any Hindu-Muslim angle to this issue. He stated that the youth were trying to get the cow heads for the purpose of a puja and that was the only purpose. Co-Founder Alt News, I can be reached via E-mail at [email protected] and on Facebook at https://fb.com/freethinker. Follow @free_thinker Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	7th April 2017 / 3:46 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/3-hindu-men-wanting-to-buy-5-cow-heads-at-any-price-scares-the-residents-of-birbhum/", "author": "Pratik Sinha" }
104	PIB's 3 out of 4 'fact-checks' on deaths in Shramik trains are unsubstantiated - Alt News Priyanka Jha 6th June 2020 / 9:09 pm / Last updated: 6th June 2020 Recently, the fact-checking wing of Press Information Bureau (PIB) posted multiple tweets declaring news reports on deaths of migrant workers in Shramik trains as false. PIB claimed that the deceased persons were either suffering from pre-existing medical conditions or had recently undergone treatment. But the outlet did not provide any medical reports to support its claim. The deaths of four such labourers were claimed to have been caused by long-term illness. However, the family of the deceased persons gave different accounts to us than the one reported by PIB. In this report, we will give details of each of the four cases and present how PIB ironically missed facts in its fact-check. On 28 May, PIB retweeted a tweet by Spokesperson Railways where it was claimed that the child who died at Muzaffarpur railway station was already ill and was returning home after treatment from Delhi. Spokesperson Railways also advised against sharing unverified news. This was in response to a tweet by journalist Rana Ayubb where she had shared a link of a report by Hindustan Times on the death of the 4-year-old child. This news was declared as false and misleading by PIB in another tweet dated 26 May. The outlet said that the child was suffering from previous illness and only a postmortem can determine the cause of death. We spoke with Mohammad Pintu, the father of the deceased child, who said that neither was 4-year-old Irshad previously ill nor was he recently treated or undergoing any treatment. “We were sitting on the train from Delhi to Patna on the afternoon of May 23. The Delhi government had made arrangements for food and water on the train. We were also not charged for tickets. On the same night (May 23), we were given a little food (poori and vegetable) and a bottle of water at Lucknow station. After that, we did not get any help. The train was making stops at places where we could not find anything nearby. Water was also not available. All sixteen of us were hungry for four days. All the children were suffering from hunger, thirst and heat. We reached Patna on the morning of May 25, then got to Danapur and reached Muzaffarpur at around 10 pm. From 10 am to 3 am, we were waiting for a train or any transportation to Bettiah. There was no arrangement anywhere. In the meanwhile, Irshad lost his life.” Mohammed Pintu denied that his child had undergone any treatment recently. He said that Irshad was healthy, which is why he was travelling. A medical check-up was also conducted before boarding the train. There was no sign of illness. We also asked if his child had a postmortem. Mohammad Pintu replied, “We were hungry and thirsty and desperate to get home. We had 4-5 children with us. One was a 10-day-old child. I have a 2-year-old child. All of them were troubled by hunger. They were crying. For how long could we wait? One had already died which is why we refused for a postmortem.” We requested Mohammad Pintu to give his statement on video. The same has been attached below. Apart from this, the Ministry of Railways had issued guidelines on May 2, stating that all passengers will be examined before boarding Shramik special trains. If found sick, they will not be allowed to travel. Only those who do not show signs of COVID-19 are permitted to board. Therefore, it is evident that Irshad did not have a fever, trouble in breathing, cough and cold or any other symptoms of the virus. A troubling video of a toddler trying to wake up his dead mother on Bihar’s Muzzafarpur railway platform was widely circulated on May 27. According to media reports, the child’s mother Arvina Khatoon (23) died of heat, thirst and hunger as passengers were not served food or water inside the train. PIB Fact Check termed the media reports “incorrect” and “imaginary”. According to PIB Bihar, Arvina was suffering from an illness before she boarded the train and this was corroborated by her family. #दावा: वायरल वीडियो में मुजफ्फरपुर स्टेशन पर एक महिला की भूख-प्यास से हुई मौत को दिखाया जा रहा है#factcheck: गलत और भ्रामक है। महिला के पहले से ही बीमार होने की पुष्टि उसके परिवार ने की है। pic.twitter.com/XIsP9c8Esm — PIB In Bihar 🇮🇳 (@PIB_Patna) May 27, 2020 Alt News had earlier published a detailed report on this case. We spoke with Arvina’s family members who were travelling with her on the train — sister Kohinoor and brother-in-law Mohammed Wazir. Both of them said that Arvina did not complain of any illness when they left from Ahmedabad to Katihar. However, she was yearning for water on the train. Kohinoor added that they had visited a doctor for a check-up before they got on the train and the examination found that Arvina was fine. Wazir said the same in a phone conversation with Alt News. We further spoke with Arvina’s father Mohammed Nehrul. He was also contacted by NDTV and told the channel that Arvina could go to Ahmedabad and work “as she was mentally and physically sound.” Arvina’s mother said that her daughter wasn’t sick and wanted to come back home because the lockdown had rendered her jobless. Even if we assume that she was suffering from a long-term disease, PIB did not specify the illness which was serious enough to take her life. Moreover, no medical records of long-term sickness were shared. The government also did not conduct a postmortem of the dead body that would’ve ascertained the cause of death. If the media cannot claim that Arvina died of heat, starvation and dehydration because only an autopsy can determine that, how did it make sense for PIB to assert that she ‘did not’ die of these reasons? Furthermore, one of the most important aspects of the story – PIB’s claim that Arvina was already ill was made on the basis of a police complaint which carried the thumb impression of Mohammad Wazir. But during a conversation with Alt News, Wazir told that he does not know how to read and write. The complaint was neither written by him nor read out to him before taking his thumb impression, he told us. On May 27, PIB retweeted a tweet from Spokesperson Railways. It was claimed in the tweet that two people who died on trains were both suffering from pre-existing conditions. One person was suffering from paralysis and undergoing kidney treatment and the other 63-year-old was suffering from various diseases. We found some media reports about the cases mentioned by PIB. A May 27 report of Navbharat Times stated that two migrant labourers were found dead in a Sharmik special train arriving from Mumbai to Varanasi’s Manduadih. “The deceased Divyang Dashrath (30) was a resident of Badlapur in Jaunpur. He went to Mumbai with his brother Lalmani Prajapati to making a living. During his return home with his brother, his health in Prayagraj deteriorated due to severe heat and hunger. When the train reached Manduadih station, Dashrath’s brother tried to wake him up but couldn’t.” The report further states that details about the second person could not be found. A local news channel made a video on the incident and spoke with the family of the deceased who was differently-abled. In the video, family members say that Dashrath was handicapped since childhood and used to keep sick. The ID card found in the pocket of the second deceased person appears in this video. According to his Aadhaar card, his name was Ramratan Raghunath Gond and he was 63 years old. We tried to contact Ramratan’s family. Budhu Prasad Yadav, the station in-charge of Manduadih police station, told us that the deceased’s body was kept in BHU Varanasi. He was first tested for coronavirus which was found negative. The postmortem revealed that he had a lung infection. When Alt News asked about the copy of the postmortem report, we were told that it had just been sent to the SP. We got the phone number of Ramratan’s family members from the station in-charge. Ramratan’s son Rajesh told us that his father was neither previously ill nor was he under any medication. “We received the news of his death on May 28 and were able to collect the dead body on June 1. He was not already ill. He died suddenly. He was alone. If someone was travelling with him, we’d know what exactly happened. We spoke once on the phone when he was on the train. He said he was fine. After this, we kept calling but no one was picking up. He did not have any disease. Not even a blood pressure problem, etc.” Rajesh also gave the above statements on video. As we saw above, PIB Fact Check described the news of the death of the four labourers as misleading and inaccurate. The outlet claimed that all of them were suffering from long-term sickness. But while talking with the family of three of these people, we were informed that they did not have any pre-existing condition. The narrative of previous illness was not only promoted by PIB but also Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. In a tweet on May 29, he claimed that the deaths in the trains were due to pre-existing diseases. He advised that those who have serious medical issues, pregnant women, people above 65 years, and children below 10 years should travel by Sharamik special trains only when extremely important. मेरी सभी नागरिकों से अपील है कि गंभीर रोग से ग्रस्त, गर्भवती महिलाएं, व 65 से अधिक व 10 वर्ष से कम आयु के व्यक्ति श्रमिक स्पेशल ट्रेनों में बहुत आवश्यक होने पर ही यात्रा करें। रेल परिवार यात्रियों की सुरक्षा के लिए प्रतिबद्ध है। #SafeRailways 📖 https://t.co/eKsLpqtAW9 pic.twitter.com/p4MZzlIs4q — Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) May 29, 2020 We spoke with another aggrieved family. According to a media report, “On May 21, a Shramik express train from Maharashtra reached Barauni on the night of May 25, roaming through many states. The workers alleged that despite diverting to several states for four days, there was no arrangement of food and water in the train.” Mohammad Anwar of Katihar, who was returning home from this train on May 21 from Bandra terminal in Maharashtra, died at Barauni junction on Monday evening. We talked to the people and family members travelling with Mohammed Anwar. Shahbaz, a member of the All India Students Association (AISA), connected us with them. Mohammad Anwar is survived by his wife and four children. His wife told Alt News that she had spoken with Anwar during the journey. She was told that he had eaten sattu while boarding the train but nothing afterwards. The train used to stop at such places where nothing was available and Anwar was forced to drink water from a pond. The news of his death came on May 25, the day of Eid. He was the only earning member of the family. His daughter is yet to be married. The family told us that they haven’t received any help from the government. Nafees, who boarded the train from Bandra with Anwar, informed, “We were wandering here and there for several days before getting on the train on May 21. Money for food and water was also running out. Upon boarding on the train, we were given a little rice and vegetable but nothing afterwards. The train reached Barauni on May 25. From there, I had to change trains and go to Katihar. During the journey, Anwar started feeling dizzy and fell unconscious. He died. The police came, everything was checked. He did not have a single rupee on him. We did not know that he had no money. He did not even ask.” Nafees sent us a ticket for the train ride, on which May 21 is mentioned as the date of departure. Apart from this, another worker Mohan Lal Sharma from Bihar was found dead in the toilet of a Shramik special train. His dead body was found after four days. His nephew said that he did not complain of any sickness during the journey. His postmortem report said that he died due to a stroke. Alt News contacted Dr Sylvia Karpagam for her medical opinion on the death of several migrant workers travelling in Shramik trains. Dr Karpagam is a specialist in community medicine with over 15 years of experience. She has worked in ‘Right to food’ and ‘Right to health’ campaigns. She also supports lawyers to look at postmortem reports in medicolegal cases. “These deaths of migrant workers in trains cannot have a single reason. The postmortem should include underlying causes and pre-existing conditions as well. Even if some of the 80 people who died have had a pre-existing medical illness, that is just one factor. Even if people had a pre-existing condition, the question is what aggravated the problem which caused them to die on the train. The problem of poor nutrition is already there in the country. This can be seen by our chronic hunger index and this affects the poor migrant workers more than most people and they often do not have reserve stores of energy. During the lockdown, this became worse as we have seen that they have been driven to travel long distances by foot because they had nothing to eat as their incomes were suddenly lost. “On top of food deprivation, you have dehydration due to the long journeys in hot weather. If hydration was ensured, this could have prevented many of the deaths. Some already sick and starving patients could still have been saved if they had good access to water. Dehydration is more quickly deadly that just starvation. These people clearly suffered both. First the heat exhaustion sets in and given the duration of the journey this can easily become a heat stroke. Heatstroke is a medical emergency and can only be handled in good hospitals. This could not have been addressed in the train by anyone but easily prevented by ensuring adequate water supply for everyone at the very least,” she said. The ones most severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic are the people who are financially weak. This section of the society was first forced to walk hundreds of kilometres to reach their native states. When some hope was brought in the form of Shramik special trains, it was embroiled in a network of chaos. The trains became synonymous with hardship instead of respite. News reports of migrant workers suffering from hunger and thirst came pouring in. They were forced to eat pulses and rice soaked in plastic bottles. When reports of workers’ deaths came to light, fact-checking by the government’s nodal agency blurred the lines between fact-checking and defence of the government with unsubstantiated information. As if misinformation on social media wasn’t enough, dedicated fact-checking organisations are forced to invest time in fact-checking such irresponsible ‘fact-checks’ by the government that downplay the plight of the poor. When the only earning member of a family dies a sudden death, the government cannot shrug responsibility by claiming that he was suffering from a long-term illness. Would sick people, pregnant women, children, the elderly be advised against travelling under normal circumstances? When the situation is clearly abnormal, is it fair for the government to treat migrant workers as if they are travelling on any other usual day? These are the people who were rendered jobless and have been surviving of morsels. The government is responsible for their well being but instead, seems to blame the dead for their ‘sickness’. She specializes in information verification, examining mis/disinformation, social media monitoring and platform accountability. Her aim is to make the internet a safer place and enable people to become informed social media users. She has been a part of Alt News since 2018. 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105	3 out of Facebook's 7 fact-checking partners have shared misinformation post-Pulwama - Alt News Pooja Chaudhuri & Priyanka Jha 18th March 2019 / 10:31 pm / Last updated: 17th August 2020 “We are committed to fighting the spread of false news on Facebook, especially ahead of the 2019 General Election campaign season,” Manish Khanduri, Facebook India’s news partnership head, said in a statement. Last month, the tech giant added five new partners to its fact-checkers network in India, bringing up the total to seven. The aim of the program is to verify the authenticity of information via third-party partners who can rate a story false and prevent further dissemination. It has, however, come to our notice that three out of the seven fact-checking partners of Facebook – India Today, Dainik Jagran and Newsmobile – have been found circulating misinformation post-Pulwama terror attack. But in most cases, these outlets either failed to take down their misreports or add a clarification to their updated articles. After 44 CRPF jawans were killed by the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed on February 14, the IAF retaliated by an airstrike on February 26 in Balakot, Pakistan. India Today reported the event using a video purported to be of IAF jets inside Pakistani territory. According to reports, the air strike by the Indian Air Force on JeM terror camps was conducted at around 3:30 am on February 26, 2019. Alt News found that this video, used by India Today to report the attack by IAF, was first posted in 2017. https://youtu.be/eNHs7FMtSwc?t=34 Alt News had debunked India Today’s misleading reportage the day it was broadcasted. The news channel is yet to take it down or put out a clarification. On February 18, news broke out that the mastermind of the Pulwama terror attack was gunned down in an encounter. According to reports, JeM commander Abdul Rashid Ghazi alias Kamran was killed after a 12-hour long encounter with security forces. The news was reported by several media organisations, including India Today, that also carried a photograph purported to be of the slain JeM commander. The photograph used by India Today was made using a photo software application. Abdul Rashid Ghazi’s face was superimposed on the template, found Alt News. India Today later took down the photoshopped image and updated its article with a clarification. India Today carried an ANI report on March 13, which was based on a tweet by a Gilgit activist Senge Hasnan Sering. He claimed while citing a video that a Pakistani military officer admitted the “martyrdom of 200 terrorists.” Alt News had debunked the claims made in Sering’s tweets. The video posted was neither from Balakot nor did it represent the Pakistani army admitting to the casualty of 200 terrorists. The audio commentary itself was sufficient to establish that the Pak army personnel were talking about the death of only one person. Alt News reached out to sources in the Pakistani media who informed that the man who died was a civilian porter, Ehsanullah. He suffered a heart attack on February 28 while assisting an army unit. Ehsanullah’s funeral rites took place on March 1 in Singhara Darora, Upper Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. We checked on Google maps that Balakot is at least 300 km away from the said location. The video posted below is the footage of Ehsanullah’s burial, which contains imagery from the video posted by Sering. احسان اللہ شہید جنازے کا ایک خوبصورت منظر ۔ Posted by ‎شینگاڑہ درہ نیوز‎ on Saturday, 2 March 2019 Despite our fact-check, India Today is yet to clarify that the tweet cited in its report was based on an unrelated, thus, misleading video. Joining the bandwagon of media organisations declaring that “according to sources, 300 terrorists were killed in Balakot airstrike” was India Today in its February 26 broadcast. While this reportage wasn’t a classic case of misinformation, it was undoubtedly premature and misleading. Besides a lack of ground reports and visual evidence, there was no official announcement made by the government on the number of casualties in the Balakot airstrike. Yet, India Today ran a story based on an unverified number. The latest update on the number of casualties is Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s statement that the government will not provide a figure. India Today group’s Aaj Tak was also found circulating misinformation post-Pulwama attack. On February 27, the media organisation published a report titled – “Pak claims – two Indian aircraft shot down, 1 pilot arrested alive” – using an image of a downed plane captioned ‘MiG plane crash’. Alt News had discovered that the image of the aircraft which was claimed to have crashed near the LoC in Pakistan was three years old and pertained to an Indian Air Force fighter trainer aircraft that had crashed in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha. Aaj Tak has now changed the photograph, sans clarification, but an archived version of the article can be seen here. A recently launched fact-checking initiative – Vishvas News – partnered with Facebook in February this year. Vishvas News is a part of Jagran Media Network – the parent organisation of the Hindi daily Dainik Jagran. Post-Pulwama terror attack, Dainik Jagran was found publishing misreports. 1. The Hindi media outlet ran a story on “300 terrorists killed in Balakot” on the front page of its February 27 Delhi city print edition. As mentioned earlier, the figure was premature and misleading, and the government has denied giving a figure on the casualties. But the report, also carried on its website, hasn’t been corrected by Jagran. 2. Another misleading reportage that has been debunked earlier in this article was the story on “bodies shifted from Balakot after IAF airstrike”. On March 13, Dainik Jagran published an article titled – “A strong retort for those asking for proof of airstrike, Gilgit activist discloses where the dead bodies of terrorists are.” After Alt News’s fact-check story revealing that the Gigil activist’s tweet was replete with misleading claims, Dainik Jagran changed its story. An archived version of its initial report can be read here. Incidentally, Jagran’s altered story was also factually incorrect. The news organisation now claimed that the “Gilgit activist shared a six-year-old video to give proof of Indian airstrike.” While Jagran claimed in its headline that the video was six years old, the content of the report revealed that the media outlet did not vouch for the information’s authenticity. In fact, it vaguely wrote that “it is being said that the video is old”. The truth is that the video was not old. It just did not represent the aftermath of Balakot airstrike. As debunked in this article earlier, the video depicted the funeral rites of a man who died on March 1 in Singhara Darora, Upper Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Alt News’s detailed investigation on the footage can be read here. Dainik Jagran has also published misreports prior to the Pulwama terror attack. Last year, there were several cases of misreporting by the media outlet – declared “no rape in Kathua” in contradiction to the post-mortem report, declared fanatic evangelism as the motive for Gurugram murder, declared Umar Khalid as an accomplice in an alleged abduction. In 2017, Dainik Jagran portrayed a J&K civilian as a slain terrorist. 1. Another one of Facebook’s fact-checking partners, Newsmobile reported the unverified “300 terrorists killed” figure on February 27. Needless to say, there have been no official statements from the government supporting this figure. 2. Astro predictions This is what the ‘About Us’ section of Newsmobile says – “…our aim is to highlight stories that impact people and present credible and fact-checked stories to our readers.” But ironically, the outlet publishes weekly Astro predictions. Astro prediction is the belief that celestial phenomenon affects human activity on Earth. NASA had rejected it as a pseudoscience and said that nothing proves that astrology “can be used to predict the future or describe what people are like based on their birth dates.” It is rather peculiar for a dedicated fact-checking outlet to publish predictions based on ‘sun signs’ that have no scientific explanation. Any information without a factual backing is as good as misinformation. The death of 44 CRPF soldiers, the airstrike by IAF in Balakot and the capture of Wing Commander Abhinandan triggered collective emotions in the country. That the misreports were published by fact-checking outlets at a time when public emotions were most susceptible to misinformation is unfortunate. When mainstream media fails to rightly inform, the burden falls on fact-checking portals to present accurate information. The dynamics, however, completely change if fact-checking outlets, claiming to debunk false news, are associated with the ones circulating misinformation. Alt News had debunked the video claiming “200 terrorists killed in Balakot” the day it was reported in the media. None of Facebook’s fact-checking partners has, however, put out a clarification on the misreporting. Dainik Jagran instead claimed that the video was six years old, which was also untrue. Misinformation of this sort can be easily avoided with — one, verification of facts and two, delayed reportage in case of incomplete verification. Since neither was practised by media outlets, the authenticity of the fact-checking division of the same outlets is questionable. Can organisations that are in the profession of presenting the fastest news to maximum people in the shortest possible time do justice to fact-checking? As a dedicated fact-checking outlet, Alt News confirms every aspect of a story despite the possibility of delay in reportage. Post-Pulwama alone, we debunked at least 30 instances of misinformation. That the same can be expected out of mainstream media is far-fetched. With a booming industry of misinformation on Facebook, the platform partnering with fact-checking websites is appreciated. However, when such partners are found to be contributors to misinformation, the question arises – is Facebook sincere in its efforts to curb fake news? Brooke Binkowski, the managing editor of American fact-checking website Snopes – a former fact-checking partner of Facebook, said while speaking to The Guardian – “They’ve (Facebook) essentially used us for crisis PR. They’re not taking anything seriously. They are more interested in making themselves look good and passing the buck… They clearly don’t care.” Snopes had pulled-out of Facebook’s fact-checkers network last year. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. 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106	Old video from Venezuela shared as BJP worker lynched by TMC in West Bengal - Alt News Kinjal 8th May 2021 / 8:45 pm A disturbing clip of a group of people slitting a young boy’s throat has gone viral on social media. Given its visceral imagery, we will not be including the video in the article. The footage is being circulated on WhatsApp as an incident of poll violence following the West Bengal assembly election results. Accompanying the video is a viral caption that states, “#Intellectual_Bengal In West Bengal’s Birbhum, TMC workers mercilessly beat Sudip Biswas to death and posed with his corpse afterwards. Biswas’s only crime was supporting and campaigning for the opposing party. This is akin to the photos hunters take while posing with the animal’s dead body. In today’s India, even an animal wouldn’t be treated with so much cruelty. The sad part is that local intellectuals are justifying these rapes and murders. Political differences are indeed an integral part of democracy. There are hundreds of political parties in the country, so it’s only natural that each will have its own workers with different viewpoints. If 10 candidates are contesting for a seat, you can only support and vote for one of them. Does this mean that the remaining nine can resort to committing physical harm and murder?” It was also posted on Twitter with the following message, “Sorry to upload this video. TMC workers are attacking BJP workers like animals. This is a highly condemnable and sad clip. What’s going on in West Bengal is nothing more than ‘jungle raj’. One could never have imagined that politics would take such a dark turn. What does such an attack on Hindus indicate? #TMCTerror #tmcgoons” Apart from this, we received a few requests to verify the video on the Alt News official WhatsApp number (+917600011160) and mobile app (Android, iOS). We performed a reverse image search of the video stills on Yandex, which led us to a 2018 news report on news.com.au. The story dated February 6, 2018, says that the incident took place in Venezuela, a country in North America. The boy in the clip was kidnapped by a rival drug mafia gang and strangled to death at an unknown location. The gang filmed the incident and shared the footage online. The article also contains some frames from the video. On February 6, 2018, Daily Mail also published a report on the incident. It stated that the boy was a victim of the dreaded ‘megabandas’ gang that formed in Venezuelan prisons. The group was said to specialize in kidnapping, extortion and murder. The clip first came to light after being published in news.com.au, which attributed the murder to a local gang. Crime expert and journalist Javier Ignacio Mallorca told media outlet Efecto Cocuyo in March 2017 that at least 19 such gangs were active in Venezuela. The Sun also reported on the gruesome murder in February 2018. Stating that news.com.au first broke the story, it mentioned that the Venezuela prison system was one of the most violent in the world, with almost 6,500 murders committed in custody between 1999 and 2014. According to The Sun, the ‘megabandas’ gang was one of the largest in the area, operating alongside another syndicate known as the ‘Cartel of the Suns’. Together, they smuggled drugs from Colombia into the United States. Therefore, an old video of a brutal execution at the hands of a Venezuelan drug cartel was falsely shared as an incident of poll violence following the announcement of the West Bengal assembly election results. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	8th May 2021 / 8:45 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/3-year-old-execution-video-from-venezuela-shared-as-west-bengal-violence/", "author": "Kinjal" }
107	'32000 Kerala women in ISIS': Misquotes, flawed math, imaginary figures behind filmmaker's claim - Alt News Shinjinee Majumder & Archit 8th November 2022 / 6:40 pm / Last updated: 8th November 2022 The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social media in which a burqa-clad woman recounts her past as a Hindu named Shalini Unnikrishnan who wanted to be a nurse. She then says that she is currently an ISIS terrorist lodged in an Afghanistan jail, and goes by the name Fatima Ba. Fatima also says that there are 32,000 girls like her who have been converted to Islam and sent to Syria and Yemen. “A dangerous game is on in Kerala to convert normal girls to dangerous terrorists, that too in front of everyone’s eyes,” she adds. Many users shared the teaser saying/implying that it was the actual story of a woman from Kerala. Some used the hashtag #TrueStory. Directed by Sudipto Sen and produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, ‘The Kerala Story’ claims to unearth the happenings behind 32,000 women who went missing in the state of Kerala. Sharing the teaser of the movie, Sen tweeted, “Shalini, Geetanjali, Nimah &Asifa marked my lifeline since last 5yrs. Choking me till I tell their stories. Soon u’ll get to see a film which u never imagined, in ur remotest imagination. Thank u Ambikaji, @YaduVJkrishnan, @sunshinepicture & Vipul A Shah from bottom of my heart.” (Archive). Shalini, Geetanjali, Nimah &Asifa marked my lifeline since last 5yrs. Choking me till I tell their stories. Soon u’ll get to see a film which u never imagined, in ur remotest imagination. Thank u Ambikaji, @YaduVJkrishnan, @sunshinepicture & Vipul A Shah from bottom of my heart pic.twitter.com/NmSltqzpf3 — Sudipto SEN (@sudiptoSENtlm) November 3, 2022 In a conversation with ANI published in ThePrint in March 2022, Sen further said, “As per a recent investigation, since 2009 – nearly 32,000 girls from Kerala and Mangalore from Hindu and Christian communities have been converted to Islam and most of them end up landing in Syria, Afghanistan, and other ISIS and Haqqani influential areas! Despite accepting these facts, the government is hardly contemplating any definitive action plan against such huge international conspiracies led by ISIS-influenced groups.” The character of Fatima, seen in the teaser, is played by actress Adah Sharma. She also shared the viral clip with the hashtag #TrueStory. Heart breaking and gut wrenching stories of 32000 females in Kerala!#ComingSoon#VipulAmrutlalShah @sudiptoSENtlm @adah_sharma @Aashin_A_Shah#SunshinePictures #TheKeralaStory #UpcomingMovie #TrueStory #AdahSharma pic.twitter.com/M6oROuGGSu — Adah Sharma (@adah_sharma) November 3, 2022 Well before Sharma’s tweet, #ISIS and ‘The Kerala Story’ started trending on Twitter. Several news media outlets including OpIndia, Zee News, Film Companion, The Statesman, Outlook, Times of India and others reported on this. Many reports mentioned, “According to a recent investigation, since 2009, nearly 32,000 girls from the Hindu and Christian communities in Kerala and Mangalore have converted to Islam; the majority of them end up in Syria, Afghanistan, and other regions with a high concentration of ISIS and Haqqani influence”. This teaser was tweeted by many verified handles as well. Panchjanya, the national weekly magazine published by the RSS, tweeted the teaser with the caption, “शालिनी से फातिमा बनी लड़की !! नर्स बनने वाली लड़की कैसे बन गयी ISIS की आतंकवादी !! फ़िल्म “The Kerala Story” 32 हजार महिलाओं की कहानी लेकर आ रही है जिसे जबरन मुस्लिम बनाकर ISIS का आतंकवादी बनाया गया !!”. (Archive) शालिनी से फातिमा बनी लड़की !! नर्स बनने वाली लड़की कैसे बन गयी ISIS की आतंकवादी !! फ़िल्म “The Kerala Story” 32 हजार महिलाओं की कहानी लेकर आ रही है जिसे जबरन मुस्लिम बनाकर ISIS का आतंकवादी बनाया गया !! pic.twitter.com/hdFIqRx4NA — Panchjanya (@epanchjanya) November 4, 2022 Journalist Abhijit Majumdar tweeted an OneIndia report of the teaser release and wrote, “32,000 girls converted to Islam and sold as ISIS slaves: This is ‘The Kerala Story’”. (Archive) 32,000 girls converted to Islam and sold as ISIS slaves: This is ‘The Kerala Story’. https://t.co/8sVWjYTpUI — Abhijit Majumder (@abhijitmajumder) November 3, 2022 Entrepreneur Arun Pudur tweeted the video with the same caption. (Archive) 32,000 girls converted to #Islam, sold as #ISIS slaves and now in Jail or buried in sand: This is #TheKeralaStory pic.twitter.com/2Vk7G6iJtc — Arun Pudur 🇮🇳 (@arunpudur) November 3, 2022 Journalist Tarek Fatah, a usual suspect when it comes to tweeting misinformation on communal lines, also tweeted the video with the caption, “32,000 #Hindu girls from #India were converted to #Islam, sold as #ISIS slaves and are now in Jail or buried in sand: This is their story, #TheKeralaStory”. (Archive) 32,000 #Hindu girls from #India were converted to #Islam, sold as #ISIS slaves and are now in Jail or buried in sand: This is their story, #TheKeralaStory. Watch and weep. pic.twitter.com/MzVvdEF3Xm — Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) November 3, 2022 Tweeting the video, author and freelance columnist Anshul Pandey wrote, “THE KERALA ISIS STORY COMING SOON!”. (Archive) THE KERALA ISIS STORY COMING SOON! pic.twitter.com/2gcUFSGKcB — Anshul Pandey (@Anshulspiritual) November 3, 2022 Other verified Twitter users who shared this clip or made the same claim include film journalist at Pinkvilla Himesh Mankad; film critique Joginder Tuteja; entertainment journalist Haricharan Pudipeddi; film trade analyst Sumit Kadel; the editor at Complete Cinema Atul Mohan; film correspondent Rajasekar; and actor Aroh Welankar. Alt News found an interview of Sudipto Sen on YouTube channel ‘The Festival of Bharat’ where he talks about how he calculated the figure. From the 45-second mark onward, he says, “In 2010, former Kerala CM Oommen Chandy put a report in front of Kerala assembly. In front of my camera, he denied that anything had happened. But in 2010, I documented a case where he (Chandy) said that every year approximately 2,800 to 3,200 girls were taking up Islam. Just calculate it for the following 10 years, and the number is around 32,000.” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD9-Nq-U1Z0?start=45] We spoke with Sen over phone to find out whether the claims made by social media users based on the figure 32,000 mentioned in the teaser had any factual basis. Sen said, “This figure (32,000) is not mine. It was a piece of news in The Times of India… one thing I can tell you is that Oommen Chandy, the chief minister of Kerala, had placed this number in the state assembly. So this is not my number, I have got all the documents with me.” He also said, “VS Achuthanandan has categorically said Kerala will become an Islamic state…”. Alt News could not find any report by any media outlet which said that 32,000 women from Kerala had joined the ISIS. The number is so large that had there been such a statement by a chief minister, it would certainly have made headlines. We, however, found a 2012 India Today report which said, “On June 25, Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy informed the state legislature that 2,667 young women converted to Islam in the state since 2006” (that is, from 2006 to 2012). There is no mention in the report of women joining the ISIS. The report added that Chandy had said there was no evidence for forced conversions in the state and the fears about love jihad were baseless. The New Indian Express also quoted Chandy and mentioned the same data. None of the reports talked about any annual figure cited by the former CM, as claimed by Sen. When Alt News shared the India Today report with Sudipto Sen and requested him to share the said ‘TOI report’ or other sources that he might have, with us, Sen said over a WhatsApp message, “Let the intolerance reach a crescendo. I’ll share my data after the film is released. Why should I defeat the cause of my film?” In the YouTube interview, Sen also says, “15-16 years ago, in 2005, CPM patriarch VS Achuthanandan, who was the chief minister at the time, came down to Delhi and had a press conference. He made a shocking revelation; he said that a sinister plan has been hatched by Islamic extremists led by ISIS that they want to convert Kerala into the hub of ISIS. For that, they are taking all sorts of means.” Sen used a clip of the press conference in the first teaser of ‘The Kerala Story’ released in March 2022. When we dug into the reported statements made by the Leftist leader, we found two things — Some viewers had, in fact, pointed out in the comments section that the subtitles and the spoken words did not match. So, it is evident that the filmmaker has misquoted both Oommen Chandy and VS Achuthanandan to give his take on the state of affairs in Kerala an air of credibility. We found other users as well who pointed out the same. However, the readers should note that VS Achuthanandan did speak about ‘love jihad’. TOI quoted the Left leader as saying, “PFI was trying to multiply Muslim numbers in the state “by influencing youth of other religions and converting them by giving money, marrying them to Muslim women and thus producing kids of the community.” The Congress criticized the comments as part of the Left’s plans to appease the majority community. Interestingly, among those reacting sharply to the CM’s comments was Oommen Chandy (who was an Opposition leader at the time). Achuthanandan later reiterated his stand in the state assembly and clarified that his remark against the PFI was being ‘misinterpreted’ as directed against the entire Muslim community. In 2018, Sen made a 52-minute documentary titled ‘In the Name of Love!‘. In the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), the plot reads, “As per a recent report, since 2009 – more than 17 thousand girls from Kerala and more 15 thousand girls from Mangalore from Hindu and Christian communities has been converted to Islam and most of them ended up landing in Syria, Afghanistan, and other ISIS and Taliban influential areas.” (sic) Interestingly, the figure 32,000 (17000+15000) shows up here as well. A screening of the film at JNU had resulted in a scuffle between two groups of students. Alt News requested the filmmaker to share with us the ‘recent report’ mentioned in the synopsis of the film and other evidence which corroborate the numbers mentioned. The article will be updated as and when he responds to our query. After the chaos at JNU over the screening of his film, Sen claimed that his film was not about Love Jihad. TOI reported that some crew members of the film had, however, refuted him. In a statement to ThePrint, Sen said, “First of all, let me clarify that I do not belong to the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) or the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). I come from a Communist family and do not believe in ‘love jihad’, a concept which is even being propagated by the likes of UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath. And this is exactly what I wanted to show through my film”. However, 19.48-minute mark onward in the YouTube interview mentioned above, Sen says, “Now I am making a feature film… on the subject of Love Jihad; how these girls (are) being converted. It’s a huge sinister plan…” Alt News reached out to Kerala Police. A public relation officer speaking to us labelled the claim made in the teaser of ‘The Kerala Story’ — that 32,000 women from Kerala have been trafficked to Syria — as ‘totally baseless’. As per the United States Department of State’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2020 there were 66 known Indian-origin fighters affiliated with ISIS as of November, 2020. A number of mainstream media houses, including The Hindustan Times and The Indian Express, had covered the publication of the report and mentioned the number 66 in their headlines. The same report said, “Through the end of September, the NIA had investigated 34 terrorism cases it indicated were related to ISIS and arrested 160 persons.” The Hindu reported in June 2021 that four Indian women were lodged in an Afghanistan prison, who had accompanied their husbands to join the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP), and they were unlikely to be allowed to return to the country. The Week reported that the four women, believed to be Sonia Sebastian alias Ayisha, Raffeala, Merrin Jacob alias Mariyam and Nimisha alias Fathima Isa, had traveled to Nangarhar in Afghanistan between 2016 and 2018. The Observer Research Foundation, a prominent think tank, in 2019 published a document titled ‘The Islamic State in India’s Kerala: A primer‘. A section in the paper titled ‘Why IS and Kerala?’ says, “The number of pro-IS cases reported in India from 2014 to 2018 is between 180 – 200. This paper defines ‘pro-IS cases’ to include sharing or propagating IS propaganda online, attempting to travel to West Asia with the aim of joining the caliphate, and in fact joining the caliphate or working for its goals. The Indian Home Ministry puts the number at 155.” One of the authors of the paper — Mohammed Sinan Siyech — told Alt News, “There are many problems with the figure of 32000 women joining the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria from India. The total number of people who joined ISIS from the whole world numbers up to 40 000 foreign fighters from 110 countries. (source: The Soufan Group Report titled ‘Beyond the Caliphate, 2017’). The largest contributors were the EU, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. India barely features in the list. According to Indian government figures, not more than a total of 100 – 200 joined the group from India. Keralites make up around 20- 25% of these figures. (source: ‘The ISIS phenomenon: South Asia and beyond’ – an ORF report).” Siyech added, “There is no mention of any figures from any source that would show that more than 200 people joined ISIS from India. In fact, this number is so small that most academics and experts often ask the question ‘What had prevented Indian Muslims from joining the Islamic State?” To sum it up, Alt News found that Sudipto Sen, the director of ‘The Kerala Story’, has repeatedly claimed that 32,000 women have joined ISIS either from India or just Kerala, and mentioned this in his film, without any evidence to back the claim. Data available in the public domain suggests that the number of ‘Indian-origin fighters affiliated with ISIS’ is far less than that. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. 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108	Old video from WB viral as Congress's Phool Singh Baraiya beaten - Alt News Kinjal 10th October 2020 / 5:16 pm / Last updated: 29th December 2020 A video is being shared on social media with the claim that Congress candidate Phool Singh Baraiya was beaten for making objectionable statements against Hindus. हिन्दुओ पर अभद्र टिप्पणी करने वाले कांग्रेस प्रत्याशी फूल सिंह बरैया की लोगो ने की जमकर पिटाई वीडीओ हुवा वाइरल Posted by पंडित योगेश on Monday, 21 December 2020 The same clip was widespread ahead of Madhya Pradesh by-polls, Twitter user Uma Shankar Rajput tweeted the video on October 6 drawing over 40,000 views and 1,500 retweets. जरा देख के बताओ सवर्णो की औरतों को अपने घर रखने की बात कहने वाले कॉन्ग्रेस उम्मीदवार फूल बरैया के स्वागत में कोई कमी तो नही रही न् 👇👇🤣🤣🤣😍😍 pic.twitter.com/8v8d7ebRbc — 🚩🇮🇳उमा शंकर राजपूत 🇮🇳🚩6k (@UmaShankar2054) October 6, 2020 “Please say if there have been any shortcomings in the welcoming of Congress candidate Phool Singh Baraiya who spoke about keeping savarna (upper-caste) women at home,” Rajput mockingly wrote. The post is in reference to a 2016 video where Baraiya said that scheduled caste groups should wake up before savarnas transform India into a Hindu nation. He also said that savarnas who ask Muslims to leave the country should leave first because they came to India after Muslims. The statement was not taken well by upper-caste communities. Speaking with media outlet Nai Dunia, Baraiya said that the video was “fake” and part of the BJP’s propaganda. The mob attack clip has also been shared on Facebook. Below is a post by the page ‘RAJPUT’. जरा ये वीडियो देख के बताओ – सवर्णो की औरतों को अपने घर रखने की बात कहने वाले कांग्रेस उम्मीदवार फूल बरैया के स्वागत में कोई कमी तो नही रही न् 🚩करणी सेना जिन्दाबाद 🗡 Posted by RAJPUT on Tuesday, 6 October 2020 This video was debunked by Alt News in July 2020 when it was doing the rounds as an attack on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Bihar. It was then debunked in October 2020 when it was shared as Health Minister Harsh Vardhan thrashed by an angry mob. But the visuals show an attack on BJP MP Babul Supriyo’s convoy in October 2016 in West Bengal. ABP News had stated in a video report dated October 19, 2016, that Supriyo’s convoy had been attacked by Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters in Asansol. In a piece dated October 20, 2016, Patrika reported that BJP supporters in the state had beaten several butchers, accusing them of cow smuggling. They planned to protest in front of TMC leader Moloy Ghatak’s house. However, Supriyo’s convoy was attacked before they could put this in motion. District BJP leader Subrata Mishra was also injured during the ruckus. After the incident, Supriyo took to Twitter accusing TMC leader Ghatak of orchestrating the whole affair. ANI had reported on the incident where the man attacked is visible. West Bengal: Ruckus during Union Minister Babul Supriyo’s visit in Asansol pic.twitter.com/d6Z4N4SefR — ANI (@ANI) October 19, 2016 A four-year-old video was revived, now with the false claim that MP Congress candidate Phool Singh Baraiya was thrashed by a crowd. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	10th October 2020 / 5:16 pm / Last updated: 29th December 2020	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/4-year-old-video-from-west-bengal-shared-as-congress-canditate-beaten-up-in-madhya-pradesh-before-poll-election/", "author": "Kinjal" }
109	Video from 2016 shared as Borivali railway station crowded after train services resumed - Alt News Kinjal 6th February 2021 / 5:27 pm Mumbai local train service was reopened to the general public from February 1 onwards. According to Aaj Tak, “Railway Minister Piyush Goyal announced that as per the Maharashtra government’s instructions, only those employed in essential services would be permitted to travel in the local trains between 7 AM to 12 noon and 4 PM to 9 PM. Others will not be allowed to travel in the local trains in these hours.” In the midst of this, a 20-second video of a crowd gathered near the train at a railway station is being shared widely on social media. Users claim that this was a scene from Mumbai’s Borivali railway station. Twitter user @joshibhargavi99’s video drew over 6,200 views at the time of writing. (Archive link) Borivali Railway station Today#RailBudget2021 #rail#mumbailocal @PiyushGoyal @AamchiBest pic.twitter.com/xrD8Ym6i5A — Joshi b_jndaajtak (@joshibhargavi99) February 2, 2021 Aniruddha B Chandorkar shared the video with the same claim on Facebook. (Archive link) I cannot blame Mumbaikars for these scenes shot today apparently at Borivali station …. . . I have stayed in the Megapolis for more than 2 decades and know how tough life is in the city…. Posted by Aniruddha B Chandorkar on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Leo De Chinchinim, another Facebook user, also posted the clip and accompanying claim. (Archive link) Borivali Station Today 👇 Posted by Leo De Chinchinim on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Replying to a tweet by @joshibhargavi99, Senior DSC, Mumbai, W.R., wrote that the video seems to be fake. He clarified that sufficient uniformed staff was deployed at the stations to regulate the crowd. The video seems to be a fake one, as local trains resumed for general public only on yesterday after almost 10 months. Sufficient uniformed staff are deployed at stations to regulate the crowd. No such instance of crowd congregation has been reported from across suburban section. — Sr.DSC/MUMBAI/W.R. (@rpfwrbct) February 2, 2021 Investigating further, Alt News performed a reverse image search of a still from the video. This led us to a YouTube video dated March 21, 2016 which said the crowd was from Mumbai. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5CSDX12rSs] Therefore, a clip of a massive crowd boarding a Mumbai local train from at least four years ago was shared as recent. Users claimed that the visuals showed the Borivali railway station after train services resumed for the general public in Mumbai. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	6th February 2021 / 5:27 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/4-year-video-of-crowed-at-railway-station-shared-as-recent-boriwali-station/", "author": "Kinjal" }
110	43-year-old student protesting fee hike? JNU master's student misidentified in viral image - Alt News Jignesh Patel 19th November 2019 / 11:29 am A screengrab of a Zee News broadcast, where a woman can be seen standing in a crowd, is being shared on social media. One Kanak Mishra posted the image with a claim that the woman is a 43-year-old student at Jawaharlal Nehru University whose daughter is also studying in the same institute. The Facebook post has been shared more than 1,400 times at the time of writing this article. The post is being shared in the backdrop of a student protest against the fee hike at the university. According to media reports, the leaders of JNU Students’ Union have gone for a meeting with the joint secretary of the Human Resource Department Ministry after a day-long protest. मोहर्तमा JNU की 43 साल की छात्रा है, और कमाल की बात उनकी बेटी मोना भी 12 वी में JNU में ही पड़ती है🙄🙄🙄 #muftkhori_Zindabad 😃😃 Posted by कनक मिश्र on Sunday, 17 November 2019 Many people on Facebook and Twitter shared the image with a similar narrative. At 2:56 mins in the broadcast video posted below, one can see the same girl along with a group of protesters, hooting at a Zee News reporter, as seen in the viral screengrab. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-1tWaUdXJE?start=177] We reached out to Shambhavi Siddhi, the girl whose image from a broadcast is being shared on social media. In a conversation with Alt News, Shambhavi said, “This is Shambhavi Siddhi, student of masters 2nd year, french literature!”, and added that she is a 23-year-old student and not a 43-years-old. In conclusion, a screengrab from a Zee News broadcast, where a woman protester was seen shouting slogans against the channel, is being shared with the false claim that she is a 43-year-old student at JNU. Jignesh is a writer and researcher at Alt News. He has a knack for visual investigation with a major interest in fact-checking videos and images. He has completed his Masters in Journalism from Gujarat University. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	19th November 2019 / 11:29 am	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/43-year-old-student-protesting-fee-hike-jnu-masters-student-misidentified-in-viral-image/", "author": "Jignesh Patel" }
111	5 people including a BJP worker arrested for the murder of BJP Yuva Morcha worker, an attack which BJP had blamed on CPM activists - Alt News Alt News Desk 16th February 2017 / 9:36 pm / Last updated: 12th July 2018 A 20 year old BJP Yuva Morcha worker and RSS activist, Nirmal, was stabbed to death and another person was injured during a temple festival at Mukkattukara in Thrissur district on Sunday night. The BJP Leadership in Kerala alleged that Ruling party CPI(M) activists were behind the attack. On 14th Feb, Police, quoting witnesses had stated that at least seven persons were involved in the attack.However, according to the latest report, five people have been arrested in connection with the stabbing of Nirmal during a temple festival in Mannuthi – Sooraj, Siddhu, Yesudas, Arun and Sachin. Arun from Ilanjikkulam is an active worker of the BJP, according to the Police, and that the murder was the result of personal rivalries. A dispute regarding the “Kummaattikali” performance as part of the festival led to the murder. This has put the numerous BJP leaders who had tweeted blaming “Leftist Terrorists” for the murder in an embarrassing position. Some of the tweets where in BJP alleged that it was a handiwork of CPM can be seen below. Kummanam – State President of Bharatiya Janata Party,Keralam blames “Leftist Terrorists” for the murder. Soon After, BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi had tweeted promising to fix a meeting with officials in the Home ministry. Om Birla – Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), Blames ‘Goons of Left” for the Murder even before the investigation. Surendra Poonia had blamed ‘Leftist goons’ and Sitaram Yechury for the murder. In the latest statement, the police now claims that the latest incident of the murder of Yuva Morcha worker Nirmal in Thrissur is not a case of political rivalry. Among the five accused that the police have taken into custody, one of them is a BJP worker. Those who understand Malayalam can read more details here – reporterlive.com Follow @free_thinker Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	16th February 2017 / 9:36 pm / Last updated: 12th July 2018	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/5-people-including-a-bjp-worker-arrested-for-the-murder-of-bjp-yuva-morcha-worker-an-attack-which-bjp-had-blamed-on-cpm-activists/", "author": "Alt News Desk" }
112	No, this is not an arrest video of Lucknow woman who assaulted cab driver - Alt News Priyanka Jha 12th August 2021 / 5:37 pm / Last updated: 12th August 2021 A video of a group of policemen escorting a woman is being shared widely on social media platforms. It has been claimed that the woman is Priyadarshini Yadav from Lucknow, who recently made headlines after a video of her beating a cab driver went viral. Users are claiming that she has now been arrested. Finally #Lucknow Girl is Arrested Finally #Lucknow Girl is Arrested 🙄 लखनऊ थप्पड़बाज लड़की गिरफ्तार की गई। Posted by We Are Lucknowites on Friday, August 6, 2021 The Facebook page for an outlet named Indian News also shared this video with the same claim. The channel uploaded a split-screen video of Yadav interacting with the media on the left and footage of the woman being arrested on the right. Arrested Priyadarshini Narayan Yadav \|\| Lucknow Beaten Girl Arrest \|\| प्रियदर्शिनी हुई गिरफ्तार ! Arrested Priyadarshini Narayan Yadav \|\| Lucknow Beaten Girl Arrest \|\| प्रियदर्शिनी हुई गिरफ्तार ! Posted by Indian News on Saturday, August 7, 2021 Apart from this, many other Facebook pages posted this video, including X24 News Satyamev Jayate as well as We Are Lucknowites. First of all, none of the people in the video seem to be following COVID-19 protocols. None of the people are wearing masks or maintaining social distancing. This suggests that the visuals cannot be recent. Furthermore, the woman does not resemble Priyadarshini Yadav at all. Alt News performed a reverse image search of the video’s frames along with a keyword search. We found the original video uploaded on YouTube on March 30, 2017. The video description states, “Anandpal’s partner Anuradha has been arrested by the police.” A June 2016 video report by News24 also features footage from the video that is currently viral. The report is about Anuradha Chaudhary of Rajasthan, also known as ‘Lady Don’. A Rajasthan court sentenced Chaudhary to two years imprisonment along with a fine of Rs. 20,000. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riP6sVRq_-I] Recently, Dainik Jagran and TV9 Bharatvarsh covered Anuradha Chaudhary’s arrest. These reports carry screengrabs from the video in circulation. The TV9 Bharatvarsh article states, “Anuradha Chaudhary was sentenced to two years imprisonment in 2016 by a court in Nagaur district. Along with this, she was also fined a sum of Rs. 20,000. Anuradha was born in the Sikar district of Rajasthan. She has also been a close aide of gangster Anandpal Singh and used to cooperate with Singh in the trade of illegal weapons. There are several serious crimes registered against her including robbery, kidnapping, and extortion.” To sum it up, a five-year-old video depicting the arrest of Rajasthan’s Anuradha Chaudhary is being shared as that of Priyadarshini Yadav of Lucknow. Speaking about her arrest, Yadav told Aaj Tak that if she had actually been arrested, she could not have made an appearance on live television. She also said that she would take the help of the cyber cell if the social media trolling does not die down anytime soon. She specializes in information verification, examining mis/disinformation, social media monitoring and platform accountability. Her aim is to make the internet a safer place and enable people to become informed social media users. She has been a part of Alt News since 2018. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	12th August 2021 / 5:37 pm / Last updated: 12th August 2021	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/5-year-old-video-shared-as-lucknows-priyadarshini-yadav-arrested-after-beating-up-cab-driver/", "author": "Priyanka Jha" }
113	6 Rapes, 11 Molestations - Yes, Thats an average day in Delhi - Alt News Sam Jawed 18th April 2017 / 2:40 pm / Last updated: 19th April 2017 Delhi’s record of crime against women is abysmal. The brutal gang rape of Nirbhaya in December 2012 in Delhi shocked the nation’s conscience. It led to widespread protests calling for improved safety for women on streets. Political parties did not miss this opportunity to make women’s safety a key part of their election campaign. Four years later, how safe are the streets of Delhi for women? Almost every day papers carry stories of sexual violence which are forgotten after a spate of outrage on social media. Not all stories make it to the papers. Let us look at the staggering data on crime against women compiled by NCRB & Delhi police. (The latest NCRB report provides the data for 2015 for all states and union territories while Delhi police website provides Delhi specific data for 2016). Although women may be victims of any crime such as murder, robbery, cheating, etc., only crimes which are directed specifically against women i.e. gender specific crimes are characterized as ‘Crimes against Women’. As per the NCRB report of 2015, Delhi tops the list of states and union territories in crime against women with a rate of 184.3 per 100,000 women which is over three times the national average of 53.9. It is indeed the crime capital of India for crimes against women. NCRB reports further breaks down the crime against women into different categories. We will examine three of these categories, namely Rape (376 IPC), Assault on women with an intent to outrage her modesty (354 IPC) and Insult to the modesty of women (509 IPC). The latter two are commonly clubbed together in India as “eve teasing”. Teasing is euphemism that makes it sound like a flirtatious courtship. Assault on women to outrage her modesty and insult to the modesty of women is no “teasing”. Let us call it what it is, i.e molestation and sexual harassment. With 2199 cases of rape in 2015, Delhi records a rate of 23.7 per 100,000 women against an all India average of 5.7. To put this number in perspective, the rate is nearly double of that of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, the two other states which have a high rate of rape. In 2016, the Delhi police reports 2155 rapes, which works out to a shocking number of 6 rapes a day. While only a few cases make national headlines, each number has a horrendous story behind it. The number of rapes has shown a steady increase since 2012, stabilizing after 2014. The number of reported rape cases in 2016 is three times of that in 2012. Age wise breakdown of the rapes is shocking with 42% of the victims being minors. In 81 cases, victims were under 6 year old and in another 146 case, they were between 6 to 12 years of age. Soon after the Nirbhaya case, UPA government allocated Rs 1,000 crore to set up a fund to enhance the safety and security for women in the country. In the 2014-15 and 2015-16 budgets, a further amount of Rs 1,000 crore was allocated to the Nirbhaya fund each year. The fund remained unutilized in the first two years and even four years later, most of the schemes are still in the planning stage. When faced with criticism, the government issued a clarification stating amount allocated to different projects is approximately Rs.1530 Crores so far and the expenditure incurred is approximately Rs.400 Crores.‬ As per NCRB, Delhi recorded a total of 5367 cases of assault on women to outrage her modesty in 2015. This translates into a rate of 57.8 per 100,000 women which once again is not only the highest but is also more than four times the national average of 13.6. The next highest state is Odisha with a rate of 31.1 per 100,000 women. Assault on women to outrage her modesty under IPC section 354 includes sexual harassment, stalking, voyeurism and assault with intent to disrobe. Delhi Police data of 2016 shows a fall in the number of cases to 4165 which is still over 11 cases a day. Though 2016 data for other states is not available for comparison, the fall in number of cases is a positive development. It should however be noted that this is nearly six times the 727 cases reported in 2012. To some extent one can argue that women may now be more open to reporting molestation, year on year increases since then is indicative of deteriorating safety of women. 2017 data will be able to confirm if this trend has indeed been reversed. Insult to modesty of women under IPC section 509 includes insult to modesty as workplace as well as public transportation. Delhi recorded a total of 1492 cases in 2015. The rate per 100,000 women was 16.1 as compared to an all India average of 1.4. Andhra and Telengana are next highest but their rate of 8.6 and 7.1 is way below that of Delhi. Delhi police data for 2016 shows a significant fall in the number of cases to 918. While the number of reported cases has gone up each year since 2012 figure, such a massive fall in 2016 is a positive development that points to improved policing. Crime against women doesn’t stop at rape, molestation and sexual harassment. In 2015, Delhi recorded 4301 cases of kidnapping. The rate per 100,000 women was 46.3 as compared to a national average of 9.8. The NCRB list of crime against women goes on to elaborate several others types of crimes like dowry deaths, cruelty by husband and relatives, crimes under immoral traffic prevention act, etc. Delhi leads when it comes to rape and crimes that are committed in a public space. The underlying issue remains the safety of women on the streets of Delhi. Although there seems to be some improvement in crime against women in 2016, Delhi still has a long way to go before it can shrug off the unfortunate title of being the crime capital of India for crime against women. Delhi Police falls under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), central government and not the Delhi state government. The buck for law and order and women’s safety in Delhi, therefore stops with the BJP government at the Center. For now, “bahut hua naari par vaar.” remains yet another unfulfilled promise… Nobody's cheerleader, I tweet at @samjawed65 A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… Trigger Warning: Violent Content. Viewer discretion is advised. Over the past few months, rumours of… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	18th April 2017 / 2:40 pm / Last updated: 19th April 2017	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/6-rapes-11-molestations-yes-thats-an-average-day-in-delhi/", "author": "Sam Jawed" }
114	8 BJP workers asked to quit on the basis of Valentine's day video that Alt News shared - Alt News Pratik Sinha 20th February 2017 / 5:07 pm / Last updated: 23rd February 2017 On 16th February 2017, we published a post titled “Dear Bajrang Dalwalon, look at this cute Valentine’s Day celebration in a BJP office. Make love, not war.” In that post, we shared a video by a Facebook user which was that of a party at Valentine’s Day Celebration at BJP Office in Mira Bhayandar. We appealed to the folks in Bajrang Dal to take inspiration from their ideological brother BJP and stop terrorising couples in the name of culture. The video can be seen below: Valentine’s Day Celebration at BJP Office in Mira Bhayandar Posted by Alt News on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 However, instead of Bajrang Dal taking inspiration, it seems BJP has taken offence to its own cadre having some fun. According to a report by Hindustan Times, 8 of the people seen in the above video were asked to resign. The report states: Eight Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, including both men and women, were asked to resign after a video of them dancing together on Bollywood songs at the BJP office in Mira Road went viral on social media. The video was recorded while the partymen were celebrating Valentine’s Day and the birthday of one of the p[arty members — Sonia Nayak. The entire Mira Road office has been shut down after video gained popularity on social media. The report quotes BJP MLA Narendra Nath. He stated: This is not the first time that a party member’s birthday has been celebrated in the office, but dancing to film songs is an act of indiscipline and we have decided to take strict action as the party will not tolerate such acts. I have asked the 8 members to submit their resignations and we will present the same to my senior leaders to take action. I have also ordered for the closure of the Mira Road office. While the intention of the article that we wrote was to spread a positive message of love and liberalism, BJP has instead reacted according to their basal instincts of conservatism and thus strengthening the extreme right wing elements in the Sangh. Co-Founder Alt News, I can be reached via E-mail at [email protected] and on Facebook at https://fb.com/freethinker. Follow @free_thinker A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… Trigger Warning: Violent Content. Viewer discretion is advised. Over the past few months, rumours of… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	20th February 2017 / 5:07 pm / Last updated: 23rd February 2017	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/8-bjp-workers-asked-quit-basis-valentines-day-video-alt-news-shared/", "author": "Pratik Sinha" }
115	Image from 2013 shared as RSS relief work after 2021 Uttarakhand glacier break - Alt News Kinjal 11th February 2021 / 11:07 pm A photograph of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers carrying sacks on their backs is circulating online. It is being claimed that they are carrying out relief work after the Uttarakhand glacier break. Facebook page ‘Rss’ shared the picture and wrote, “RSS men have doing relief work for three days so that no one dies of hunger or disease”. The post drew 1200 shares as of this writing (Archive link). चमोली… तपोवन !! लगभग 13 गांवो के तो अवशेष ही बचे हैं… सैकड़ों स्त्री-पुरुष-बच्चे खुले में पड़े हैं… दिन जैसे तैसे कट… Posted by Rss on Wednesday, 10 February 2021 BJP national spokesperson RP Singh also tweeted this picture with the same claim. (Archive link) चमोली तपोवन के लगभग 13 गांवो के तो अवशेष ही बचे है पुल बह चुका है सड़कों का नामोनिशां नहीं ऐसे में खाद्यों से भरी बोरियां कंधे पर उठाए @RSSorg के स्वयंसेवको ने मोर्चा संभाल रक्खा है ताकि कोई भूखा न सोये न ही कोई बीमारी से मरे। #UttarakhandGlacierBurst pic.twitter.com/Pnh4162l64 — R.P. Singh: ਆਰ ਪੀ ਸਿੰਘ National Spokesperson BJP (@rpsinghkhalsa) February 11, 2021 BJP leader and actor Paresh Rawal shared the photo too. (Archive link) Any calamity Anywhere In India . #RSS is the first one to reach there and Last one to leave . Always.Respect. https://t.co/52sY4hS3fO — Paresh Rawal (@SirPareshRawal) February 11, 2021 The image is widespread on Facebook and Twitter. Alt News has also received verification requests on its official mobile application. A simple Google reverse image search led us to the photograph uploaded on July 1, 2013, on Samvada. The article is about the RSS running a relief camp after heavy rains in Uttarakhand eight years ago. It says that 15 relief camps and about 5000 volunteers were working in the flood-affected areas. We also found this picture in a blog post dated July 1, 2013. According to a June 9, 2013 article published on the website of the Hindutva organisation, the RSS and VHP along with the army participated in rescue work in Uttarakhand. The Hindu also reported about this on June 26, 2013. RSS worker Rajesh Padmar tweeted a press release dated June 20, 2013, which said that volunteers delivered essential food items to the flood-affected areas in Uttarakhand during the floods. RSS Press Release (in Hindi) from Ground Zero: Uttarakhand Calamity Relief Committee. pic.twitter.com/QFohtV84a9 — Rajesh Padmar (@rajeshpadmar) June 20, 2013 An eight-year-old picture was therefore shared with the false claim that it shows RSS carrying out relief work recently in Uttarakhand. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	11th February 2021 / 11:07 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/8-year-old-image-rss-workers-relief-work-chamoli-uttrakhand-glacier-break/", "author": "Kinjal" }
116	This video of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers in face-off is from 2014 - Alt News Kinjal 28th February 2022 / 2:25 pm Against the backdrop of Russia’s assault on Ukraine, a video is being circulated that shows two groups of people dressed in army uniforms, with one of the officers on one side holding a Ukrainian flag and a soldier from the other side holding a gun. It has been claimed that the video shows Ukrainian and Russian soldiers facing off in the ongoing conflict. Twitter use Ikhlaque Siddiqui shared the clip with the same claim. It garnered more than 45,000 views as of this writing. (Archive link) Ukrainian and Russian soldiers face to face.#Russia #Ukraine #USA #JoeBiden #VladimirPutin #Putin #Biden #WorldWar3 #WWIII #RussiaUkraineConflict pic.twitter.com/RXTLt12v9B — Ikhlaq Siddiqui (@Miksiddiqui) February 24, 2022 Twitter handle ‘@z4iks’ also promoted the video, claiming that the Ukrainian army went to confront Russian troops without weapons. (Archive link) No weapons in the Ukrainian army, meet face to face Russia and Ukraine armys pic.twitter.com/sLMayR9uJi — 4b3_y (@z4iks) February 25, 2022 The visuals have been shared on Facebook and Twitter as recent. We performed a keyword search and came across a YouTube video posted by Channel 4 News in March 2014. Scenes from the viral visuals appear after the 1:03 mark in this report. It is mentioned that Ukrainian and Russian soldiers came face to face in Ukraine’s Belbek. Furthermore, Ukrainian troops marched up to the Russian-controlled Belbek Airbase in the territory of Crimea. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIbGpSvtuGY] BBC News Turkey also covered the development in a video report dated March 4, 2014. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xznp-_QKUrU] Reporting on the incident, the Irish Mirror stated that one soldier standing guard at the airbase in Crimea even threatened to shoot the legs of the 300 Ukrainian soldiers approaching their position. To sum it up, an eight-year-old video of Ukrainian and Russian troops facing off was falsely circulated as visuals from the ongoing conflict. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	28th February 2022 / 2:25 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/8-year-old-video-of-ukrainian-and-russian-soldiers-face-to-face-shared-as-recent/", "author": "Kinjal" }
117	"99% Muslims are terrorists by thought": Fake quote ascribed to Salman Rushdie - Alt News Kinjal 29th May 2019 / 7:27 pm “मुसलमान चाहे पाकिस्तानी हो या भारतीय, अनपढ़ हो या सुशिक्षित, गरीब हो या अमीर 99% मुसलमान सोच से कट्टर आतंकवादी ही होते हैं, चाहे वह भाईचारे का कितना ही दिखावा करे।” (Be they Pakistani or Indian, illiterate or educated, poor or rich, 99% Muslims are terrorists by thought, even if they make a show of brotherhood- translation). The above quotation has been attributed to celebrated author Salman Rushdie. Circulated along with a picture of Rushdie, the quote has been shared on social media and messaging platforms. Some WhatsApp users contacted Alt News seeking verification of the quote in question. The quote has been shared widely on both Facebook and Twitter. “99 % मुसलमान सोच से कट्टर आतंकवादी ही होते हैं चाहे वह भाईचारे का कितना ही दिखावा करें” – सलमान रुश्दी ।* — tikam nariani (@tikam53) May 16, 2019 The quotation attributed to Salman Rushdie is fake. The same statement had been circulated earlier as well. Alt News checked the Twitter profile of Salman Rushdie and found that this quote had been debunked by Rushdie himself, way back in 2015, wherein he had quote-tweeted a user, Lucy Wolf, saying, “Thank you for finding the source of this fake quote that people can’t seem to stop quoting to justify their own bigotry.” .@LucyGoesHard Thank you for finding the source of this fake quote that people can’t seem to stop quoting to justify their own bigotry. — Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) March 7, 2015 Despite being debunked by Salman Rushdie himself in 2015, the fake quotation continues to be shared in his name. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	29th May 2019 / 7:27 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/99-muslims-are-terrorists-by-thought-fake-quote-ascribed-to-salman-rushdie/", "author": "Kinjal" }
119	CCTV footage of man stabbed to death in Delhi's Madipur shared with false Muslim angle - Alt News Archit 22nd July 2020 / 9:55 pm A CCTV clip of a man brutally stabbed by a group of youths has been shared by several Facebook and Twitter users. As per social media claims, the victim was attacked by three underage Muslim boys in Madipur area of New Delhi. [Warning: The video is violent in nature, viewer discretion is advised.] दिल्ली के मादीपुर में तीन नाबालिगों जिहादियों ने एक लड़के की मामूली सी बात पर बीच सड़क चाकुओं से गोद कर हत्या कर दी। हम सब जातिवादिता में मर रहे हैं वहाँ इन शांतिदूतों को अच्छी ट्रेंनिग मिलती है। #जिहादी_साले pic.twitter.com/0w9e4HZss8 — ब्राह्मण रश्मि ( अयोध्या जी) (@Rashmi0090) July 17, 2020 The Hindi text associated with this video reads, “This CCTV is from Delhi’s Madipur area. Three underage jihadists stabbed a man to death with knives over a trivial issue.” (translated from ये #CCTV दिल्ली के मादीपुर इलाके का है।तीन नाबालिगों जिहादियो ने एक लड़के की मामूली सी बात पर बीच सड़क चाकुओं से गोद कर हत्या कर दी।) A few Twitter accounts that shared the clip were @Rashmi0090, @Real__Akash, @JeetusolankiRSS, @Pushpendrakul0, @Saaho_sher, @bhaiyaji_kahin, @InternetYodha, @Nazir_Mudassar1. Multiple users on Facebook also circulated the video. Alt News performed a keyword search and found a July 13 report by The Quint which stated that three juveniles stabbed a 25-year-old man to death in Raghubir Nagar, West Delhi. This incident happened on July 8. According to the report, the three killed the victim because he had scolded them for performing bike stunts. Raghubir Nagar is around three kilometres away from Madipur, per Google Maps. Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police (West) Deepak Purohit told Alt News that social media claims suggesting the perpetrators hail from the Muslim community are false. “All of them are minors and from the majority community,” he said. DCP Purohit has also been quoted in a report by The Times of India stating that a case for murder was registered at the Khyala Police Station. The victim sustained 28 stab wounds, including severe injuries on his chest, torso and other minor wounds on his arms and legs. As per the article, “The deceased has been identified as Manish, a resident of Raghubir Nagar. He worked as a private car driver.” An officer at Khyala Police Station confirmed to Alt News that none of the perpetrators is a Muslim. A report in Live Hindustan stated that the accused juveniles attempted to flee to Nepal however they were caught and sent to a juvenile correction facility. Therefore the social media claim that members of the Muslim community were behind killing the man is false. 🙏 Blessed to have worked as a fact-checking journalist from November 2019 to February 2023. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The CCTV footage of a man violently flinging a child on the ground has created… A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	22nd July 2020 / 9:55 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/a-cctv-footage-of-a-man-being-stabbed-in-madipur-new-delhi-shared-with-false-communal-angle/", "author": "Archit" }
120	Film scene viral as Russian atrocities during Chechen War - Alt News Kinjal 11th March 2022 / 7:31 pm [Disclaimer: Video depicts violence. Viewer discretion is advised.] Against the backdrop of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis, a video of a group of soldiers beating and shooting an elderly man is circulating on social media. It has been claimed it shows atrocities carried out by Russian and Ukrainian armies against residents of Chechnya during the Chechen War. Twitter handle @Archive__News shared the visuals with the same claim. (Archive link) This is what the Russian and Ukrainian army did When they entered Chechnya They executed an old man and his wife !!!$#Ukraine#Chechnya #Russia #Kiev #WARINUKRAINE #attack #Syria #Africa #NATO #cyberattacks #Putin #Kharkhiv #Gazprombank #Poland #RETWEEET pic.twitter.com/otv1WbNbt1 — ArchiveNews (@Archive__News) March 8, 2022 The clip is also making the rounds on Facebook accompanied with an Urdu message. کہتے ہیں 1999 کی ایک ویڈیو جب یوکرائن کے باشندوں نے چیچن کی اسلامی سرزمین پر قبضہ کیا تھا ، وہاں ایک سفید فام شخص سورہ حمد پڑھ کر اپنی بیوی کے سامنے شہید ہو گیا تھا ۔ جب بیوی روتی ہے تو اس بھی مار دیا Posted by Ishtiaq Pathan on Tuesday, March 8, 2022 Numerous users promoted the footage on Facebook. According to the viral claim, the Ukrainian army executed an elderly man as they made their way into the Chechnya province. It further alleges that the man was reading the Surah Al-Fatihah when he was killed, and now the Chechen army is backing Russian troops to take revenge. The message also contains instructions to forward the video widely. As a reminder.. this is what the Ukrainian army did when they entered the land of Chechnya and executed an old man who was reading Surat Al-Fatihah with his wife without mercy and today the verse is reversed and Chechnya enters with the Russian army.. to take revenge on what the Ukrainians did to them …forward so people can see the real truth about Ukrainians Posted by Muhammad Salman Malik on Tuesday, March 8, 2022 Alt News performed a reverse image search using stills from the video and discovered that it is dramatised. A website called ‘zen.yandex.by‘ published an article on the video on October 14, 2019. It says that this footage is actually a scene from a film on the Chechen War. The man in the video has been identified as a Ukrainian actor named Maxim Zapkosni, playing the role of a Russian soldier. It also states the same video was shared as ‘real’ back when the film was first released. Upon further research, we came across an article by the Turkish fact-checking website Teyit. The article reports that the scene is from the movie ‘The Search’ and it was uploaded to YouTube on March 29, 2021. The viral portion appears at the 3:40 mark in the film. The director of ‘The Search’ is Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUh1icKbP8Y] According to reports, while Chechen fighters have arrived in Ukraine, Russian propaganda has overestimated their numbers. To sum it up, a scene from a film on the Chechen War was falsely shared in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. It was circulated with a misleading claim about Russian and Ukrainian soldiers mercilessly beating an elderly man to death in Chechnya. Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	11th March 2022 / 7:31 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/a-clip-from-a-movie-on-chechan-war-shared-as-ukrainian-army-killed-old-man-and-his-wife/", "author": "Kinjal" }
121	A confirmation of Rs.700 crore offer for Kerala? The Telegraph falls for unofficial FB account of UAE President - Alt News Alt News Desk 28th August 2018 / 1:42 pm Amidst the controversy on whether or not United Arab Emirates had extended Rs 700 crore to flood-hit Kerala, The Telegraph reported that the Facebook page of UAE President, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has featured a news report under the headline “UAE Pledges Rs-700-crore Kerala relief and rehabilitation”. The article went on to state that “sources familiar with the UAE said that it would be inconceivable that the official site of the President would post a canard and continue to keep it there for days. Some sources went to the extent of describing the post as “a virtual endorsement”. So, is there truth behind the claim that an official site of the President of UAE has shared a news report about the Rs. 700 crore aid? It may be noted that this Facebook post copy-pasted the article published by The News Minute, which reported on this alleged offer after a press conference by Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan. UAE Pledges rs-700 crore kerala relief and rehabilitation Coming as a major relief for Kerala, which is struggling to… Posted by Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Tuesday, August 21, 2018 The news item led to expected speculation about the aid offer. “Would the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa, reproduce a news report of the Rs 700 crore aid his country wanted to give Kerala on his Facebook page if such an offer hadn’t been made in the first place?” No, he wouldn’t and he didn’t. That is because the President of the United Arab Emirates is not on Facebook. Would the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa, reproduce a news report of the Rs 700 crore aid his country wanted to give Kerala on his #Facebook page if such an offer hadn’t been made in the first place? #KeralaFloodRelief @ttindia @pmoindia @MEAIndia pic.twitter.com/0drcsKSV3R — churumuri (@churumuri) August 25, 2018 Even a cursory glance at the Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan page that posted the news report would reveal that this is not an official page of the President of the United Arab Emirates. The number of followers and the absence of the verified blue tick on the page point to the fact that this cannot be the official page of a Head of State. The page information states that it is managed by one Christopher Butler who works at a finance company in Istanbul. The page posts news reports in English mainly related to Sheikh Khalifa and the UAE. Many leaders of the UAE government are active on social media. These include Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai who has 9.35 million followers on Twitter and 3.8 million followers on Facebook. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE’s Armed Forces is also active on Twitter with close to 2 million followers. With the exception of occasional tweets, both them post exclusively in Arabic. This is basic check that The Telegraph should have done before suggesting that a page with less than 6000 followers belongs to the President of United Arab Emirates. The Telegraph ought to have been extra careful when commenting on a news item as contentious as the Rs 700 crore aid to Kerala on the basis of an unverified social media account. Surprisingly, the news report made it to the front page of the paper without the most basic of fact checks. The so-called “sources” of the publication seem uninformed to confirm that a post by an unverified page with less than 6000 followers could be “a virtual endorsement” of the aid. The “sources familiar with the UAE” also did not spot that an “official” page that posts content exclusively in English simply cannot be the official page of the President of the United Arab Emirates. Follow @free_thinker Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	28th August 2018 / 1:42 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/a-confirmation-of-rs-700-crore-offer-for-kerala-the-telegraph-falls-for-unofficial-fb-account-of-uae-president/", "author": "Alt News Desk" }
122	A fact-check of claims made by BJP about Vidyasagar college violence - Alt News Pooja Chaudhuri 15th May 2019 / 10:41 pm / Last updated: 17th May 2019 In the morning of May 15, BJP’s national IT cell in-charge, Amit Malviya tweeted an alleged ‘first-person’ account of a student of Vidyasagar College about the violence that erupted in the campus during BJP chief Amit Shah’s rally. “He recounts how TMC hooligans orchestrated vandalisation of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’ bust inside the college for their petty politics,” wrote Malviya. First person account of a student from Vidyasagar College. Original post in Bangla and translation alongside. He recounts how TMC hooligans orchestrated vandalisation of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’ bust inside the college for their petty politics. #SaveBengalSaveDemocracy pic.twitter.com/OWA79RTjbw — Chowkidar Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) May 15, 2019 According to the Facebook post shared by Malviya, one Biraj Narayan Roy claimed that the violence was instigated by TMCP, the student wing of the Trinamool Congress. He alleged that bricks were thrown at the rally from inside the campus and TMCP members set ablaze motorcycles and vandalised Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar’s statue. The purported student claimed that BJP workers could not have desecrated the statue as it’s located deep inside the campus. “You need to cross two gates – one iron and another wooden door – to reach the statue located completely inside the college premises. And TMCP was already inside the campus with bricks,” he wrote. The Facebook post was earlier tweeted by MP Swapan Dasgupta and right-wing influencer Vikas Pandey. Sharing screenshot of a FB post by a student who explains what exactly happened at Vidyasagar College yesterday during Amit Shah’s road show. TMC is Bengal’s Taliban pic.twitter.com/K4KPPHHtBF — Swapan Dasgupta (@swapan55) May 15, 2019 Incidentally, Biraj Narayan Roy’s Facebook account is no longer available. However, the same message has been shared by numerous people, with some circulating it in the first person. This was pointed out by many Facebook users. “আমি বিদ্যাসাগর কলেজের ছাত্র” বলে ফেসবুকের সার্চ অপশানে গিয়ে সার্চ মারুন।এই একই বয়ান কপিড,কালেক্টেড,আমি… Posted by Avik Kumar Mondal on Tuesday, 14 May 2019 The circulation of the identical message was also noticed by Twitter users. One of them sarcastically wrote, “Today, entire Facebook is ‘I am a Vidyasagar student’.” আজ গোটা ফেসবুক “আমি বিদ্যাসাগর কলেজের ছাত্র…”। — Stereotypewriter (@babumoshoy) May 15, 2019 In this article, Alt News attempts to fact-check the claims made in the Facebook post. Visual evidence of who began the stone-pelting is yet to come up. However, a news broadcast by local Bengali channel Arambagh TV shows that bricks were thrown from both sides. Another local news organisation Anandabazar ran a video during its broadcast that shows stone-pelting. As evident, stones are being hurled at the college by people standing outside on the road, wearing saffron coloured ‘NaMo Again’ t-shirts. Some retaliation can also be seen from inside the premises. The Facebook post also claimed that TMCP members set ablaze motorcycles. But video footage from the ground shows men in saffron t-shirts setting the bikes on fire. This takes place outside the campus, as evident from the clip. Another video shot from an elevated position shows the moment when the arson takes place. This footage gives a panoramic view of the site of violence. The bikes are burnt right outside the college gate that is surrounded by BJP supporters. They can be seen sporting saffron t-shirts and waving the party flag. This claim was also made by Amit Shah during his press conference. Holding up a photograph of the glass enclosure where the statue was kept, he said, “This was inside two locked rooms. It wasn’t publically displayed. My only question is that the incident happened at 7:30 when the college was shut and all the gates were locked. Who opened the rooms? Who had the keys? Who has an administrative hold over the college? It’s TMC…Bengal’s citizens’ should also know who gave the keys when the statue was inside a room? The lock was also not broken…How can BJP workers have the key when they were on the road? All evidence points that Vidyasagar’s statue was vandalised by TMC goons.” ईश्वर चंद्र विद्यासागर जी की प्रतीमा को TMC ने तोड़ा है। जहाँ प्रतिमा रखी थी वो जगह कमरों के अंदर है। कॉलेज बंद हो चुका था, सब लॉक था, फिर कमरे किसने खोले? अपनी गंदी राजनीति के लिए TMC ने महान शिक्षाशास्त्री की प्रतिमा का तोड़ा है। ममता बनर्जी की उल्टी गिनती शुरू हो गई। pic.twitter.com/yBYPuO9eVI — Chowkidar Amit Shah (@AmitShah) May 15, 2019 Multiple videos available online show BJP supporters using force to get inside the college campus. At 0:19 minutes in the clip posted below, men adorning ‘NaMo Again’ t-shirts can be seen attempting to break the lock on the gate using sticks, striking the lock repeatedly. Another video shows BJP supporters entering the campus after forcefully breaking the lock. An aerial view of the violence showcases dozens of BJP workers/supporters gathered in front of the college gate. Many of them are attacking the locked gate and subsequently entering the campus. At about 50 seconds, the man recording the video can be heard saying in Bengali, “They are entering and breaking things.” Amit Shah’s rationale that his party workers couldn’t have gotten access to the campus because they didn’t have ‘keys’ is not supported by visual evidence that shows them striking the lock repeatedly and eventually breaking it to get inside the campus. Alt News spoke to alumni of Vidyasagar college who said that the institution has multiple statues of Vidyasagar. The one vandalised in the violence was located close to the main building’s gate. It is true that one has to pass an iron gate, which is the main gate, and a wooden door to get to the statue. However, there is barely any distance between the access points. The image below shows the frontal view of the area where the violence took place. As evident, the main gate is iron, behind which are multiple wooden doors. We have already shown while fact-checking ‘Claim 4’ that BJP workers entered the premises by repeatedly thrashing the gate and thus, breaking the lock. The party’s chief and the viral social media post tried to build a narrative around the iron gate, attempting to propagate that it is indestructible. A gate, iron or wooden, is as strong as its lock. The misleading emphasis on the durability of the ‘iron gate’ is aimed at misleading people. Amit Shah alleged in his press conference that BJP workers could not have desecrated the statue as it was inside a locked room. The video posted below shows moments after the college gate was breached. Several individuals can be seen charging at wooden doors behind the iron gate. A few persons who have successfully opened the doors, enter the room and bring with them what looks like parts of a white coloured sculpture. At 0:13, we can see a white object, seemingly made of plaster of Paris, being brought out and thrown around. At 0:21, the same white object is hurled to the ground. From 0:28-0:41, the object remains untouched. At 0:42, a person picks it up and thrashes it again. At least two men in the video can be seen wearing BJP’s colour. We also located a clip that covers the entire set of events. Posted below, the video first shows saffron-clad men charging at the main gate and going past it at 00:32. At about 3:00 minutes into the video, the person recording the footage can be heard saying, “They’ve broken the door and entered inside” while referring to the wooden door of the building inside. At 4:00, the mob can be seen bringing out Vidyasagar’s bust and thrashing it on the ground. From 7:33 onward, motorcycles are set ablaze. Photographs published by The Telegraph show ruins of Vidyasagar’s bust that was kept inside a glass enclosure – the same enclosure that was broadcast by Amit Shah during his press conference. BJP supporters tailing Amit Shah’s vehicle broke into & ransacked the offices of Vidyasagar College, destroying a bust of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar. Some women students alleged that the intruders tugged at their dupattas and even tried to touch them. READ: https://t.co/qCBNW3Se70 pic.twitter.com/yuimMydVbB — The Telegraph (@ttindia) May 15, 2019 According to The Telegraph, “Principal Goutam Kundu, who said he was shocked while speaking minutes after the attack between 6.50pm and 7.05pm on Tuesday, described how a group broke open the gate and stormed the office and went for the glass case.” A video posted by Amit Malviya shows moments after Vidyasagar’s bust was vandalised when CM Mamata Banerjee inspects the site. It’s noteworthy that the second part of Malviya’s tweet – “the broken statue was neatly placed for Mamata Banerjee” – is misleading because we have already substantiated from earlier videos that the statue was placed inside a glass enclosure, which was broken by force and the statue was hurled right outside the wooden doors. The clip posted by BJP IT cell head depicts the same location where the statue was destroyed. #Vidyasagar’s bust was kept in a glass chamber inside a room (as reported by Telegraph) in the college campus but Mamata Banerjee inspected the broken statue, which was neatly placed for her and media outside. Question is why did she not go to the site? #SaveBengalSaveDemocracy pic.twitter.com/0CQOzM3uxg — Chowkidar Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) May 15, 2019 As per multiple video footages, the ones charging at the locked gates wore saffron t-shirts and the ones forcefully entering the campus were also similarly dressed. That the TMCP vandalised Vidyasagar’s statue is a claim not backed by any visual evidence. In conclusion, Amit Shah’s allegations and the claims raised in the viral social media post, that were shared by Amit Malviya and Swapan Dasgupta, are not supported by visuals from the ground. [UPDATE 1: A video showcasing all the events – saffron-clad men breaking open the iron gate, entering the room with the wooden door, bringing out Vidyasagar’s bust, thrashing it on the ground and setting motorcycles on fire – has been included under ‘CLAIM 4’. UPDATE 2: ‘CLAIM 1’ has been updated with video footage that showcases stone-pelting from both sides.] Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	15th May 2019 / 10:41 pm / Last updated: 17th May 2019	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/a-fact-check-of-claims-made-by-bjp-about-vidyasagar-college-violence/", "author": "Pooja Chaudhuri" }
123	Fake prescription viral in the name of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital debunked by the hospital - Alt News Ketan 13th June 2020 / 4:08 pm / Last updated: 13th June 2020 As of June 12, India has the fourth-highest number of COVID-19 cases. The coronavirus dashboard on Johns Hopkins University indicates India has over 3 lakh cases. While the debate on the effectiveness of the lockdown and the possible impact of unlocking the economy continues, the capacity of medical infrastructure in New Delhi seems to fall short. Issues like the shortage of hospital beds, unaffordable cost of treatment in private hospitals are frequently discussed on social media. In one such instance on June 11, a notice that appears to be issued by Sir Ganga Ram Hospital has gone viral. The notice states, “As per ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) guideline, the contacts of COVID+ cases should be put on HOME ISOLATION even with mild symptoms.” The viral notice suggests to wash hands, follow social distancing and wear a mask. Additionally, it prescribes hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) 400 mg, vitamin C, zing 50 mg. As per the notice, in case of fever one should take crocin/ calpol 650 mg and in the case of throat pain, it suggests cetirizine 10 mg and syrup alex 2/3 teaspoon. This notice seems to be have been written on the prescription slip of Dr Raj Kamal Agarwal of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. It mentions his contact details and the hospital’s contact details. The notice is duly stamped by Dr Agrawal. The screenshots below show a post on Facebook (archive link) and Twitter (archive link). Alt News received several requests to fact-check this on WhatsApp (+917600011160) and on our official Android application. Alt News performed a keyword search and found that no such news was reported by the mainstream media. Moreover, it wasn’t reported by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare or any government official. On June 11, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital published a tweet saying, “It has been brought to our notice that someone has circulated a fake image and forged the doctor’s signature. #SGRHIndia strongly dissociates itself from such messages.” It has been brought to our notice that someone has circulated a fake image and forged the doctor’s signature. #SGRHIndia strongly dissociates it self from such messages. pic.twitter.com/2obOptXxhp — Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (@sgrhindia) June 11, 2020 Alt News tried reaching out to Dr Agrawal using the mobile number mentioned on the slip. Despite multiple attempts at different intervals, we couldn’t connect because it was switched off. Next, we called on the hospital’s number mentioned on the slip. This time the phone rang and we learnt that the number corresponds to Sir Ganga Ram Coalmet Hospital in Rajinder Nagar. The front office staff shared with us the number of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) and we subsequently connected with on-duty doctor Varun who confirmed that the hospital has not released such a document. He said that it could be photoshopped. When we asked about Dr Aggarwal, Varun said that he is associated with SGRH but has not issued the prescription. On June 12, Dr Aggarwal spoke with Hindustan Times and denied writing the prescription. He added that people should not pay heed to the notice or use the medicines prescribed but consult a doctor in case of sickness. Alt News also visited the ICMR website and found no existing guideline that recommends home isolation for people showing mild symptoms of COVID-19. The latest press release is from May 30 that is about ‘ICMR advises States to conduct sero-survey to measure Coronavirus exposure in the population using IgG ELISA Test’. Thus, it is clear that the viral image is false and misleading. On May 21, Alt News debunked a fake WhatsApp text that attributed 21 dos and don’ts post lockdown to ICMR. Ketan is Senior Editor at Alt News Hindi. In a 2-minute video, a man recommends a “technique” to prevent infection from Omicron, the… A video of a set of iron nails that appear to melt after being placed… Several social media users have shared an image that shows two columns — ‘Cepa/variante’ (Spanish… A 90-second video of a man dissecting a banana has been shared on the internet…. The Taliban has formed an all-male government after taking over control in Afghanistan. On September…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	13th June 2020 / 4:08 pm / Last updated: 13th June 2020	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/a-fake-prescription-coronavirus-has-been-circulating-in-the-name-of-ganga-ram-hospital-delhi/", "author": "Ketan" }
124	A false report about Sania Mirza broadcasted by India TV in 2010 is now an Internet meme - Alt News Jignesh Patel 2nd February 2019 / 2:49 pm On January 19, Alt News debunked a viral picture which suggested that while Sania Mirza wears a hijab in Pakistan, she dons modern urban attire in India. Several Facebook pages including Tarek Fateh Fan club and Bharatiya Yuva Shaktee had shared the viral meme, where the image on the left features Sania Mirza in western clothing, while she is donning a hijab in the image on the right. At the time of writing the article, the post by the Facebook pages still exists with a combined share count of nearly 10,000. Alt News probed the origin of this claim and found a India TV broadcast of June, 2010. According to the report, Sania Mirza’s style of dressing had changed after her marriage to Shoaib Malik in April 2010. In the broadcast, India TV anchor said that after Sania Mirza got married with Shoaib Malik, her dressing style suddenly changed. She further said that Mirza was seen in ‘Pakistani’ clothing and her dressing style is not what it used to be. Alt News used Google reverse image and found that the photo of Mirza donning a hijab is not from Pakistan. It was clicked during her trip to Saudi Arabia in 2006. An article published by Rediff on November 9, 2006 was titled, “Spotted! Sania Mirza in a hijab”. According to the article, Sania Mirza was clicked during her visit to Mecca for Umrah, an Islamic pilgrimage. Hence, India TV‘s claim that the photograph of Sania Mirza wearing a burqa was clicked after marriage with Shoaib Malik and belongs to one of her Pakistan visits is false as her marriage with Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik took place in 2010, while the picture is from her Umrah visit is from 2006. It may be noted that she has been spotted in western clothing, similar to what she would wear in India, on several occasions in Pakistan. @ayeshaOmer23 with @MirzaSania on the #PSLT20 #HBLPSL These two more charming & lovely😘😘😘#KarachiKings #Karachi pic.twitter.com/mPga9bwQmm — Muala Jutt 🇵🇰 (@BeingAtharAli_) February 9, 2016 India TV’s misreport about Sania Mirza’s photograph turned out to be one of the earliest instance, the false claim was propagated on television, which later was converted to a meme on the Internet. Jignesh is a writer and researcher at Alt News. He has a knack for visual investigation with a major interest in fact-checking videos and images. He has completed his Masters in Journalism from Gujarat University. Following Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win against Argentina in the ongoing FIFA World Cup, speculation about… Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… The brutal murder of Shraddha Walker has been widely covered across news media over the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	2nd February 2019 / 2:49 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/a-false-report-about-sania-mirza-broadcasted-by-india-tv-in-2010-is-now-an-internet-meme/", "author": "Jignesh Patel" }
125	Morphed billboard shows Queen Elizabeth II thanking PM Modi for COVID vaccines - Alt News Anuradha Prasad 17th March 2021 / 4:30 pm An image of a billboard featuring a photo of Queen Elizabeth II has gone viral on social media with the caption, “Thank you PM Modi for sending us COVID-19 vaccines. You are a good boy.” The photo has been shared against the backdrop of the UK purchasing 10 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII). The first batch of 5 million doses was dispatched on March 5. Twitter user @anandagarwal554 shared the picture and wrote, “The same British Empire where the sun never set, and which ruled over us for 200 years, is now graciously thanking Prime Minister Modi. Queen Elizabeth II thanked Mr. Modi with this billboard in London for helping supply the COVID-19 vaccine to England.” जिस ब्रिटिश साम्राज्य मे कभी सुरज अस्त नहीं होता था, जिन्होंने हम पर 200साल राज किया था, वह भी आज प्रधानमंत्री मोदीजी के लिए निवेदित हो धन्यवाद प्रेषित कर रहे है ,, लंदन में महारानी एलिजाबेथ द्वितीय ने इंग्लैंड को कोरोना वैक्सीन की मदद देने के लिए मोदीजी को धन्यवाद ज्ञापन दिया। pic.twitter.com/Whlp2lDSeM — 🚩आनंद🚩 (@anandagarwal554) March 12, 2021 The photo and accompanying caption are gathering a lot of traction on Facebook and Twitter. Alt News also received several requests to investigate the claim on our official app and WhatsApp number (+917600011160). We performed a reverse image search and found similar photos featured in dozens of news reports. One of these was posted on the British business media website campaignlive.co.uk on April 9, 2020. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addressed the nation on the occasion of Easter in 2020. She said that this Easter would be different for many and thanked health workers. The UK went into lockdown on March 23, 2020. The original photo contains part of her address on the billboard, reading, “We will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.” These are lyrics to a popular song by Vera Lynn from the World War II era. The billboard was installed on the Piccadilly Circus building in London. British tabloid Daily Mail published more photos of the billboard with different parts from the Queen’s address showcased. The one in the second photo reads, “I want to thank everyone on the NHS front line, as well as care workers and those carrying out essential roles.” This image can be found on a number of other platforms including Shutterstock, The Guardian, Alamy, abc.net, and The Economic Times. Reverse image search also revealed that this photograph had become a viral meme template. Recently, an image of another banner saying thank a taxpayer, not Kejriwal was circulated widely. In 2019, an image of the Bombay Stock Exchange electronic billboard was edited with the text, “DON’T VOTE FOR MODI”. Though intended to be humorous, many users believed it to be true. In August 2020, a picture of Lord Ram was photoshopped onto a billboard in Times Square, US. A journalist and a dilettante person who always strives to learn new skills and meeting new people. Either sketching or working. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	17th March 2021 / 4:30 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/a-morphed-image-of-a-billboard-which-shows-uk-queen-elizabeth-ii-thanking-pm-modi-for-vaccine-supply-to-the-country-viral-with-false-claims/", "author": "Anuradha Prasad" }
126	A peek into the online world of Gaurav Pradhan - a compilation of misinformation - Alt News Pooja Chaudhuri 5th September 2018 / 12:36 pm / Last updated: 5th September 2018 A resident of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, “Dr” Gaurav Pradhan describes himself as a data scientist, advisor, digital strategist and professional speaker. He has his own blog where he has delved into myriad subjects – from blockchain technology, Indian real estate, politics and environment to how he visited Shani Dham to pray that Narendra Modi becomes Prime Minister. On Twitter, the Prime Minister is among his 1.3 lakh followers. Pradhan has on multiple occasions been a contributor to India’s fake news epidemic. His pinned post on Twitter, where he preaches “speak less than you know”, ironically contradicts his social media presence. In March this year, an image of an injured Jain monk was viral on social media along with the claim that he was attacked by Muslim youth in Karnataka. Pradhan was among the purveyors of this fake news but later deleted his tweet without any clarification. Jain muni Mayank Sagar was not attacked by members of the Muslim community but had a minor accident that hurt his shoulder after being hit by a bike. In April this year, Gaurav Pradhan had tweeted that former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah took a one day trip to Karachi for taking Pakistani intelligence agency ISI’s help ahead of the state elections. Pradhan juxtaposed his claim with an alleged letter by an aviation company, portraying that Siddaramaiah flew to Karachi on April 13, 2018. After several users on social media raised suspicions on the letter, Pradhan deleted his tweet and later posted it as a matter of “national security” which needed to be investigated. .@HMOIndia this is the source of this letter https://t.co/qEge6jkh9D Kindly check urgently the source where the portal gets the letter from. It is a National security matter Name of pilots seems WRONG but the captain number belongs to another captain https://t.co/wia2sn9YLH — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) April 30, 2018 Boomlive spoke to the operations team of the aviation company that was allegedly chartering Siddaramaiah’s flight and was informed that the letter was fake. The CMO also refuted the claim. In February 2018, Pradhan posted a video of people wrecking havoc on solar power panels and tweeted that his “sources” say this was the act of “anti-Modi” gang. As it turned out, the video was indeed of February 2018 but of workers in Maharashtra destroying the cells allegedly due to non-payment of wages. Alt News had busted the fake claims in this article. “Army gun down 5 terrorists in J&K but @ndtv call them citizens…” tweeted Pradhan earlier in August 2018. This was retweeted 2,500 times. Army gun down 5 terrorists in J&K but @ndtv call them Citizens Pls for sake of this Nation and our brave soldiers STOP watching @ndtv Unsubscribe @ndtv and all its channel, Twitter Handles, FB and uninstall @ndtv APP pic.twitter.com/753z8t7W6M — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) August 6, 2018 Alt News found that in May 2018 an encounter between security forces and terrorists in the valley resulted in the death of five terrorists and an equal number of civilians. NDTV had reported both the instances, however, Pradhan and many other right-wing handles omitted the former to portray the channel in a negative light. In June 2018, an image of a man spilling milk on roads was viral. Several right-wing Twitter handles claimed that he was a Congress minister from Nagpur. Pradhan was among those who circulated the photograph of “milk wastage”. Another Shocking incident from Nagpur. This guy in image is Nagpur Congress neta, he snatched milk from poor Farmers & spilled it on road . He also abused & threatened policemen when they try to stop This is @incindia for U viaWA pic.twitter.com/FmJ4Ov66hJ — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) June 4, 2018 Boomlive busted the claim and found that the man was a protestor from Jai Jawan Jai Kisan Sangathan and wasn’t associated with any party. The group was protesting low prices of milk. ANI reported that they also distributed milk to locals who were coming with utensils. Nagpur: Protesters spilled milk on road against Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh’s remark on the ongoing farmers’ strike; distributed milk to locals who came up with utensils requesting for it #Maharashtra pic.twitter.com/ke71cKYJpm — ANI (@ANI) June 4, 2018 Pradhan shared a fake quote ascribed to Bollywood actor Farhan Akhtar where he was shown justifying the death of the Hindu victim during Kasjung violence that took place during this year’s Republic Day. Akhtar came out with a clarification, tweeting that he had never said what is being attributed to him by nefarious elements on social media. . @TwitterIndia this is a malicious tweet with a statement that I did not make being ascribed to me. Kindly take necessary action against this user. https://t.co/wKuOUGOkhc — Farhan Akhtar (@FarOutAkhtar) January 30, 2018 Pradhan later deleted his tweet but immediately resorted to whataboutery targeting Akhtar’s parents who have a vocal public presence. Thanks for clarification @FarOutAkhtar BUT the larger question is where is ur intolerant Brigade mom dad who jump on every issue?? Why they take so many sleeping pills? या सांप सूंघ गया #KasganjTruth के नाम पे https://t.co/82mmmwPiL1 — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) January 30, 2018 According to several right-wing Twitter handles, communists and the Left in 2008 demolished a statue of Rajiv Gandhi in Tripura. Among the ones who made the false claim was Gaurav Pradhan. Dear @JhaSanjay @priyankac19 @rssurjewala & other @incindia PIDIs This is Shri Rajiv Gandhi statue in Tripura which was brought down by LEFT in the most humiliating manner in 2008 Would u guys say something about it or Lenin is your new father now? pic.twitter.com/IcAIYIgNZd — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) March 7, 2018 The photograph that was being circulated was carried by Deccan Chronicle in the year 2013. It was clicked in Andhra Pradesh. The statue of former PM Rajiv Gandhi was pulled down by protesters who favoured a united Andhra Pradesh. The state was formally bifurcated in 2014 and massive protests had broken out then against the Congress-led UPA government. The picture can be accessed here. “Finally, Jesus has arrived in Kerala to save people from the flood in KAHKI Chaddi,” read an August 13, 2018 tweet by Pradhan where he attempted to portray RSS workers as providing aid to Kerala flood victims. Finally, Jesus has arrived in Kerala to save people from the flood in KAHKI Chaddi pic.twitter.com/cTpHDjVYeW — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) August 13, 2018 However, Alt News found that the same photographs were shared in in September 2016 as RSS workers helping Bihar flood victims. Among the many who shared a video of SP leader Kamal Akhtar being allegedly thrashed by Uttar Pradesh police in November 2017 was Gaurav Pradhan. दंगा भड़काने वाले सपा के कैबिनैट मंत्री कमाल अख्तर को U P पुलिस ने बीच सड़क पर गद्दौं व रजाई की तरह धुन धुन कर ता ता थैया कर करा के धौया है @yadavakhilesh ji इस सुन्दर नाट्य दर्शन से कृपया सबको अवगत कराएं। viaWA pic.twitter.com/TUMvhjG10A — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) November 24, 2017 However, Alt News found that the video was not of an SP cabinet minister beaten up for inciting riots. The video has been available on YouTube for over six years. In a news report in The Indian Express on February 23, 2011, Shivpal Singh Yadav alleged that multiple SP MLAs and workers were roughed up while protesting against Mayawati government. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee passed away at the AIIMS hospital in New Delhi on August 16, 2018. Soon after, a photograph of PM Modi surrounded by medical personnel began circulating. On the basis of his facial expression, PM Modi was mocked on social media for the supposed indifference and lack of empathy. Gaurav Pradhan came to the Prime Minister’s rescue and declared the image fake. He claimed that the photograph was old and not clicked during the hours after Vajpayee’s demise. .@abpnewstv caught spreading fake news again. This pic of @narendramodi ji is old one and not during ABV time pic.twitter.com/KRw8f4LQsD — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) August 18, 2018 Alt News’ analysis revealed that the image was indeed of August 16, 2018 when the Prime Minister visited AIIMS. However, there was nothing in the photograph or otherwise to suggest lack of compassion or grief on the part of PM Modi. Moreover, Pradhan targeted ABP News for a video where the media outlet also inferred that the claims suggesting PM Modi was not condoling Vajpayee’s death are false. “I wonder to understand why go on aerial survey when you all you want to do is read newspapers,” tweeted Pradhan along with a video of Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy reading a newspaper during an aerial survey of floods that occurred in August 2018. This is probably the best aerial survey of flood affected areas by any CM of this country. I wonder to understand why go on aerial survey when you all you want to do is read newspapers. pic.twitter.com/KPxjQCkwIi — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) August 19, 2018 Kumaraswamy had conducted two aerial surveys that lasted more than the 50-second clip posted by Pradhan. There were many other videos available where the Chief Minister can be seen surveying the flood-affected areas. To suggest that the CM read the newspaper during the entirety of the survey was unsubstantiated and misleading. In February this year, there were claims on social media suggesting that Pakistan had defaulted on an $85 million loan from World Bank hence, Karachi airport will be auctioned. Pradhan was among the ones who made the allegation. Pakistan once again defaults on World Bank Loan repayment, World Bank tells Pakistan to auction Karachi port to repay $ 85Billion. माशाल्लाह @HamidMirPAK मियाँ तुम्हारा पाकिस्तान नीलाम हो रहा है — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) February 3, 2018 However, Alt News found no trace of the claim and it is impossible that something as big as this was not reported by the media. The decades-old ban on Saudi women drivers was lifted in June this year. However, instead of commending the move to recognise a basic human right, Gaurav Pradhan mocked women drivers by claiming that they fought on the roads. He later deleted his tweet without a clarification, however, its archive can be accessed here. SM Hoaxsalyer had debunked the fake news and revealed that the video was first uploaded on Youtube three years ago hence, it cannot be from Saudi Arabia where women were given the permission to drive only recently. A sarcastic column written by a satirist Moroccan blogger Israfel al-Maghribi was circulated by a Gujarati newspaper, OneIndia and several individual users on social media as true. The piece of satire said a Pakistani man was sentenced to death due to farting in mosques during Ramzan. Gaurav Pradhan had tweeted about the same and is yet to take it down. Pakistan is the only country in world where one gets Death sentence for FARTING, not for exploding BOMBS@UNHumanRights@realDonaldTrump@UN pic.twitter.com/4eM8R0ZcPd — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) July 2, 2017 Pradhan tweeted last year, “Turkey has issued a postage stamp of @narendramodi, declaring that this is in honour of the greatest leader of the world at this moment.” Turkey has issued a postage stamp of @narendramodi, declaring that this is in honor of the greatest leader of the world at this moment. Every Indian & specially GUJARATIs should feel proud about this. pic.twitter.com/48FaFvhyGv — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) November 14, 2017 As it turned out, the stamp was released at the Turkey G20 summit held on November 15, 2015. Turkey issued 33 such stamps with photos of representatives from all countries taking part. It was a gestural honour. SM Hoaxslayer had debunked the misinformation last year. Gaurav Pradhan is a familiar name associated with misinformation. His narrative on social media is often political or religious chicanery which he propagates using his substantial Twitter presence. The amount of likes and retweets his posts garner is formidable and indicative of a large number of people who fall for such falsehood. Despite his reputation, the Prime Minister and other top BJP functionaries are among Pradhan’s 1.3 lakh Twitter followers. Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News. Inter-faith relationships between Hindu women and Muslim men have been a sore point for the… Trigger Warning: Violent Content. Viewer discretion is advised. Over the past few months, rumours of… The word ‘unprecedented’ only mildly captures the year 2020. The coronavirus pandemic did more than… In the past few weeks, multiple Twitter accounts impersonating prominent individuals have successfully amassed thousands… Sambit Patra is the most visible spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	5th September 2018 / 12:36 pm / Last updated: 5th September 2018	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/a-peek-into-the-online-world-of-gaurav-pradhan-a-compilation-of-misinformation/", "author": "Pooja Chaudhuri" }
127	Photo of Smriti Irani greeting BJP leader Hukumdev Narayan Yadav shared as 'rape guru' - Alt News Priyanka Jha 18th December 2019 / 3:16 pm / Last updated: 18th December 2019 Union Minister Smriti Irani recently claimed in Parliament that Rahul Gandhi said in a speech that ‘women should be raped’. She demanded that Gandhi should apologize for his statement. However, Irani’s claim was proved wrong. On December 17, Indrani Mishra, National Secretary of Mahila Congress, tweeted a picture of Smriti Irani which said, “ये लो…मैडम ‘रेप गुरु’ के आगे हाथ जोड़े मथा टेके खड़ी है…और माफी @RahulGandhi को मागणी पड़ेगी….@smritiirani जी…शर्म अापको छोड़ गयी या आप ने छोङ दिया (Here you are… Madam is standing in front of ‘Rape Guru’ with folded hands… and @RahulGandhi will have to apologise… @ smritiirani ji … did shame abandoned you or you left it).” Indrani Mishra later deleted her tweet but its archived version can be accessed here. Alt News found many posts on Facebook and Twitter with the same claim. A few claimed that the man is BJP MP Chinmayananda (archive) who was accused of rape by a law student in Uttar Pradesh. बलात्कारी भाजपा सांसद चिन्मयानंद से आशीर्वाद लेता वरगद का पेड़ 🤓🤓 pic.twitter.com/qLkusawEcR — Deepak jain (@Deepak_jain_PHA) December 16, 2019 In the viral picture, Smriti Irani is greeting BJP leader Hukumdev Narayan Yadav from Bihar. He is an MP from Madhubani district. Shri Hukumdev Narayan Yadav: Veteran Farmer Leader – Former Central Government Agriculture Minister and 6-time MP. #PeoplesPadma #PadmaBhushan pic.twitter.com/vVwCnvY1hj — MyGovIndia (@mygovindia) March 11, 2019 In an affidavit submitted by Yadav on the website of Chief Electoral Office of Bihar, there are no charges against him. Similarly, on myneta.info Hukumdev Narayan Yadav has no charges. On December 17, Smriti Irani responded to Indrani Mishra on Twitter, “जिस सज्जन को आप इस चित्र में बदनाम कर रही हैं उनका नाम हुकुमदेव नारायण यादव है । पद्म भूषण से सम्मानित हुकुमदेव जी 1960 से लगातार देश सेवा में समर्पित हैं। दलित समाज एवं ग़रीब कल्याण के प्रति हुकुम देव जी ने अभूतपूर्व काम किया है।मेरा प्रणाम इन्होंने स्वीकार किया ये सौभाग्य है (The gentleman you are defaming in this picture is Hukumdev Narayan Yadav. Honoured with Padma Bhushan, Hukumdev ji has been continuously dedicated to the country since 1960. Dev Ji has done unprecedented work towards Dalit society and poor welfare. He accepted my greetings, this is a privilege).” जिस सज्जन को आप इस चित्र में बदनाम कर रही हैं उनका नाम हुकुमदेव नारायण यादव है । पद्म भूषण से सम्मानित हुकुमदेव जी 1960 से लगातार देश सेवा में समर्पित हैं। दलित समाज एवं ग़रीब कल्याण के प्रति हुकुम देव जी ने अभूतपूर्व काम किया है।मेरा प्रणाम इन्होंने स्वीकार किया ये सौभाग्य है। https://t.co/NFIxWEoL1L — Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) December 17, 2019 Indrani Mishra’s claim that Smriti Irani is greeting ‘rape guru’ is false. Some users also made the false claim that she is with BJP leader Chinmayananda. However, in the picture, Smriti Irani is greeting Bihar-based BJP leader Hukumdev Narayan Yadav. She specializes in information verification, examining mis/disinformation, social media monitoring and platform accountability. Her aim is to make the internet a safer place and enable people to become informed social media users. She has been a part of Alt News since 2018. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	18th December 2019 / 3:16 pm / Last updated: 18th December 2019	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/a-photograph-of-smriti-irani-with-bjp-leader-hukumdev-narayan-viral-as-irani-with-rape-guru/", "author": "Priyanka Jha" }
128	Prank on 'Dance India Dance' shared as BJP leader's son threatening judges on the show - Alt News Priyanka Jha 16th September 2020 / 4:47 pm On September 14, Congress leader and former actress Nagma tweeted a video and wrote, “A BJP top leader’s son auditioning for Dance India Dance (Noida edition) created a disgusting & shameless scene along with his father & other goons. Welcome to the real India. Jai Ho. BJP’s dominance is the norm in UP.” She has since deleted this tweet but and archived link can be accessed here. Many users shared this clip with the same claim on Facebook. A BJP top leader’s son auditioning for Dance India Dance (Noida edition) created a disgusting & shameless scene along with his father & other goons. Welcome to “REAL” India ! Jai Ho. 😱😆👎🏼 Posted by Casper Tariang on Wednesday, 9 September 2020 Twitter user @MODIJI_helpus tweeted the clip, writing, “Look at this powerful Noida builder’s son openly bullying the judges on Zee TV’s Dance India Dance show.” The video in question was part of a prank on an episode of ‘Dance India Dance’ reality show. We found fact-check reports on the video by BOOM and The Quint from September 10–11. The clip has been taken from a Season 5 episode of the show. Recently, some Facebook pages posted the viral clip writing that it was a prank. The post below is from August 22, 2020. Another page had shared this video on August 20. It is about 7 minutes long while the clip that has gone viral currently is about 5 minutes. Contestant Fight With Master Punit Mere Daddy Noida Ke Bahot Bade Builder Hain. Like, Comment, and Share It With Your Friends. Turn On Post Notifications🔔 Like and Follow us on Facebook and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bindasschacha/ https://www.facebook.com/BindAssChacha/ 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 #bindasschacha #facebooklive #facebookpage #facebookmarketing #facebookads #facebookmemes #facebookgaming #facebookmemories #facebookgroup #facebookshop #facebookadvertising #facebookpost #facebooklikes #facebookstatus #facebooklike #facebookmarketplace #facebooktips #facebookers #facebookmessenger #facebookquotes #facebookwatch #eyetest #india #dancelife #insta #covid #dance #digitalmarketing #likesforlike Posted by BindAss Chacha on Wednesday, 19 August 2020 The first episode of Season 5 of ‘Dance India Dance’ premiered on June 27, 2015. The original episode is over an hour long. We have inserted some screenshots below of what happens right after the 46-minute mark. Here, Master Punit Pathak explains to the audience that this was all a prank. The screenshots were taken from ZEE5, a subscription-based streaming site and app. Thus a staged video was shared as BJP leader’s son threatening judges on ‘Dance India Dance’. She specializes in information verification, examining mis/disinformation, social media monitoring and platform accountability. Her aim is to make the internet a safer place and enable people to become informed social media users. She has been a part of Alt News since 2018. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	16th September 2020 / 4:47 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/a-prank-on-did-show-is-being-shared-with-false-claim-that-bjp-leader-threatening-judges/", "author": "Priyanka Jha" }
129	Old video of ragging in Sri Lanka shared as Muslim students harassed in Karnataka - Alt News Pooja Chaudhuri 1st March 2019 / 5:41 pm / Last updated: 10th February 2022 A video viral on WhatsApp is being shared against the backdrop of the hijab row in Karnataka. Multiple colleges have barred Muslim students from wearing hijab inside institution premises, leading to protests by affected students. Several right-wing Hindu students have also organised counter-protests that saw young saffron-clad men heckle and harass students adorning hijab and burqa. The viral video shows a group of young men throwing buckets of water on burqa-clad women. Alt News has received multiple verification requests for the video on its WhatsApp helpline (+91 7600011160). The same video was shared three years ago with the claim that it represents the mistreatment of the minority Muslim population in India. It was circulated against the backdrop of Pakistan’s decision to release Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman as a “peace gesture.” Pakistani political commentator Zaid Hamid was among those who circulated the clip. He wrote that the Indian populace has no regard for human dignity and the honour of women and children. “Let the bloody pilot go back …then see how low they will sink,” Hamid’s tweet ended with this statement. His account is withheld in India but an archived link to the tweet can be accessed here. Another Pakistani Twitter user shared the video with an Urdu caption. Its rough English translation reads, “Hindu extremists humiliating Muslim students.” انتہا پسند ہندووں کی مسلمان یونیورسٹی طالبات کے ساتھ شرمناک حرکتیں 😔 pic.twitter.com/2CDY7aMWZ4 — Aneesa (@Aneesarajput) February 28, 2019 The clip posted by Azad Kashmir native Abdul Rauf Siddiquie received more than 28,000 shares. Last year, Siddiquie had falsely claimed that the Indian army burned houses in Kashmir. انتہا پسند ہندووں کی مسلمان یونیورسٹی طالبات کے ساتھ شرمناک حرکتیں ان بہنوں کے لئے کون آواز اٹھائے گا 😢😢 Posted by Abdul Rauf Siddiquie on Thursday, 28 February 2019 Another narrative used to share the video was – “RSS groups torturing Muslim college girls.” Alt News traced this video to February 23, 2019, when it was posted by a few users as an incident of ragging in Eastern University, Sri Lanka. If one carefully listens to the audio in the clip, people can be heard talking in Tamil, which is one of the dominant languages of Sri Lanka. A Sri Lankan resident Mohamed Sarjoon posted about the incident. #இலங்கை கிழக்கு பல்கலைக்கழகத்தில் கற்கும் (eastern university of srilanka ) #இனத்துவேசமிக்க மாணவர்களின் பகடிவதைக்கு ஒரு… Posted by Mohamed Sarjoon on Saturday, 23 February 2019. Another Sri Lankan citizen had uploaded the identical video on February 24, 2019. We also found a local Tamil website Online Ceylon that reported the incident. The website had published another article on the case of ragging that carried a similar video of young men throwing buckets of water. However, in this video, not only burqa-clad women but girls in school uniforms can also be seen trying to escape. The article and the video are no longer accessible. முஸ்லிம் மாணவிகள் மீது மட்டும் பகிடிவதை என்பது பொய்; முழுமையான வீடியோ முஸ்லிம் மாணவிகள் மீது மட்டும் பகிடிவதை என்பது பொய்; முழுமையான வீடியோ Posted by தமிழ் View on Sunday, 24 February 2019 A video from Sir Lanka is, therefore, circulating with the false claim that it shows young men harassing Muslim students in Karnataka. Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News. Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi recently performed aarti at the Narmada Ghat in Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar… In the wake of the alleged murder of Shraddha Walkar by his partner Aftab Amin… The video of a group of people stopping an e-rickshaw with BJP flags attached to… Last week during the G20 summit in Bali, world leaders were informed of a missile… Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	1st March 2019 / 5:41 pm / Last updated: 10th February 2022	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/a-ragging-incident-from-sri-lankan-university-viral-as-hindus-in-india-mistreating-muslim-girls/", "author": "Pooja Chaudhuri" }
130	No, this isn't a vegetable market set-up by farmers themselves in Bengaluru - Alt News Anuradha Prasad 17th December 2020 / 5:41 pm Social media users have been sharing photos of a warehouse filled with vegetables and fruit carts, claiming that this market was started by farmers in Bangalore. At the same time, others also began linking it to the ongoing farmers’ protests. Twitter user ‘Journalist Sonu Pandat’ shared the images and wrote, “The farmers of Bengaluru have set up their own market. We need to learn something from these farmers too. #isupportfarmersprotest #FarmerProtests #Delhi #kisanektazindabad.” (Archive link) बेंगलुरु के किसानों ने अपना खुद का सुपर मार्केट तैयार कर लिया है इन किसानों से हमें भी कुछ सीखना होगा#12_दिसंबर_को_टोल_प्लाजा_बंद #isupportfarmersprotest #FarmerProtests #Delhi #kisanektazindabad pic.twitter.com/RPHWxaWfKE — Journalist Sonu Pandat 💙 (@100nujournalist) December 12, 2020 A few Facebook users also shared the photos and accompanying claim. (First post, second post, third post) Taking a closer look at the four pictures being shared, we noticed that one had a board that read ‘HUMUS’ in the background. We performed a Google search and discovered that Humus is an agricultural start-up from Bangalore. More information can be found on its website. We contacted HUMUS and spoke to its founder Manjunath. “We started this venture in 2018. Our aim was getting farmers the right price for their crops and removing middlemen so that they can supply their produce to people at an even lower price than the market. For this, we try to combine production, buying, selling, and marketing. Farmers can sell their crops directly at our collection centre where they get the fair price and we do not take any commission. Our plan is to help them with agriculture also. They will be given information about technology and nutrients,” he informed. “The viral images show our organized fruit and vegetable market where customers can buy goods. What is being claimed is not true. The truth is that we are making direct contact between customers and producers. Such start-ups are difficult for farmers to set-up themselves because they are short of money and other resources. So we have created this set-up to facilitate the sale of their products,” he added. A Facebook link has been shared on the website of HUMUS where pictures similar to the ones viral can be found. One of the photos being circulated online is actually the Facebook cover photo of this page and is also present on their website. We also found other pictures on the Facebook page which have been shared recently. Here, people can be seen wearing masks. However, they have nothing to do with the farmers’ protests nor have any of these initiatives been started by farmers themselves. There are several news reports covering the story of this start-up, which say that it was started by Manjunath TN and his wife Shilpa Gopalia. To sum it up, social media users are sharing photos of a fruit and vegetable market set up by a Bangalore start-up in 2018. Therefore, the online claims that suggest this initiative was recently started by farmers from Bangalore are false. A journalist and a dilettante person who always strives to learn new skills and meeting new people. Either sketching or working. A minute-long video clip of a woman being physically assaulted is viral on social media…. Trigger Warning: The following story contains graphic imagery. Several users have shared images of the… A 1:34-minute-long CCTV camera clip is being widely circulated on social media in which viewers… Trigger Warning: Violent Content. Viewer discretion is advised. Over the past few months, rumours of… The teaser of a movie titled ‘The Kerala Story’ is being widely shared on social…	news-altnews	2024-05-27T18:24:05.489452	17th December 2020 / 5:41 pm	{ "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "url": "https://www.altnews.in/englishclone/a-set-of-images-shared-with-false-claim-that-newly-made-super-market-run-by-farmers-in-bangluru/", "author": "Anuradha Prasad" }

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