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Is India supplying free COVID vaccines to Pakistan? - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
17th March 2021 / 3:15 pm
After reports emerged that Pakistan will receive made-in-India coronavirus vaccines, multiple claims were made regarding its supply. BJP member Surendra Poonia tweeted that Pakistan “requested” for made-in-India COVID vaccine under Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI).
Finally Pakistan requests for made in India Covid Vaccine under Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation program.@fawadchaudhry लगवा लेना अब 😊
— Major Surendra Poonia (@MajorPoonia) March 6, 2021
Times Now took down its tweet stating India will supply 45 million doses of vaccines and tweeted again with additional information about GAVI.
Punjab Kesari went a step further and said that India has taken the commendable step of giving free vaccines to Pakistan. The article attached to the tweet is no longer available.
पाकिस्तान को ‘मुफ्त कोरोना वैक्सीन दी’‘भारत सरकार की सराहनीय पहल’https://t.co/Gr5tNMteN1#Pakistan #freecoronavaccine #GovernmentofIndia #commendableinitiative pic.twitter.com/cmqdPgGB37
— Punjab Kesari (@punjabkesari) March 12, 2021
India is at the centre of global vaccine manufacturing with the capacity to produce vaccines for itself and other developing countries. “India has been a manufacturing hub for vaccines … even before the pandemic, and should therefore be a strategic partner in the global inoculation against COVID-19,” JPMorgan analysts wrote in a January 2021 report, per CNBC.
International vaccine alliance COVAX will supply 45 million doses of Indian made Oxford-AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine to Pakistan this year, according to a report in Pakistan-based The Nation. India is neither directly providing the vaccines nor has Pakistan made a request for Covishield, which is the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine licensed and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII).
The vaccines have been allocated and funded through COVAX, co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi and the World Health Organization (WHO), alongside UNICEF. COVAX aims to provide equal access to vaccines to 190 participating countries, both self-financed and funded. It has made arrangements to access nearly two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine candidates on behalf of the participating economies. COVAX has existing agreements with the Serum Institute of India for 200 million doses of vaccines (with options for up to 900 million doses more).
The global alliance has recognised 92 middle-and lower-income countries that cannot fully afford to pay for COVID-19 vaccines themselves. Both Pakistan and India are among the funded countries. Once vaccines are licensed and prequalified by the WHO, COVAX AMC (Advance Market Commitment) funds will pay for the purchase of doses for all 92 ODA (Official Development Assistance)-eligible countries. The global alliance aims to vaccinate no more than 20% of the population of the participating countries.
Till now, COVAX has only released details of the first round of allocation. “This first round of allocation outlines the delivery of doses of the AZ/Oxford vaccine – manufactured by AstraZeneca (AZ) and COVISHIELD, licensed to and manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII/AZ) – to 142 Facility participants,” says its website.
Pakistan will receive 14,640,000 doses of the SII/AZ vaccine by May 2021.
COVAX allocates vaccines to the participating countries based on a number of factors – the level of threat, mortality rate, number of sick healthcare workers, logistical considerations, etc. These can be read in detail here.
The Indian government is keeping a track of vaccines delivered to other countries through Vaccine Maitri. Details of the supply can be found on the website of the Ministry of External Affairs. Pakistan is yet to receive vaccines hence its name is absent from the current data.
India started external supplies of made-in-India vaccines on January 20, 2021. Supplies are being undertaken in three ways –
The vaccines supplied under ‘grant’ are the ones that will be provided for free. For instance, Myanmar, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka are some of the countries that have received free vaccines from the Indian government.
The Ministry of External Affairs gives details of the number of vaccines supplied to 71 countries so far. Out of these, 26 have entered into commercial sale agreements with vaccine manufacturers or under the COVAX initiative. The remaining 55 countries have received free vaccines from India and many among them have also received vaccines through commercial sales and the COVAX facility.
In terms of the number of does, a major portion of India-made vaccines has been supplied to other countries on a commercial basis. Out of the total 58,460,000 doses so far, 57.92% have been delivered as commercial agreements, 28.21% have been dispatched through the COVAX facility and 13.85% have been supplied under grants.
Media reports on the delivery of vaccines haven’t carefully explained the procedure of supply and the role of GAVI in procuring vaccines from India and distributing them to its member countries. Furthermore, social media claims that Pakistan has requested Indian vaccines are false since the country will receive the doses through COVAX.
Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News.
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Is Karnataka social-science textbook encouraging religious conversion? A fact-check - Alt News
Alt News Desk
5th June 2018 / 7:11 pm / Last updated: 10th July 2018
“Massive controversy breaks out as Social Science textbook in Karnataka includes chapters on How to Islamize country, how to spread Christianity and force kids to visit Mosques and Churches!” screams the headline of Postcard News.
The article goes on to explain that the chapter has been included “on orders of Congress high command which is nothing but a mouth piece of ROME and VATICAN”. The article further adds that “Sonia Gandhi is spearheading a campaign to turn the country into Christian dominated Nation by helping missionaries and Churches in mass conversions. On the other hand she is helping Islamization to keep her vote banks safe in the country.” Reading a few sentences from the article, you can be almost certain that this is a manufactured controversy, but let us dig deeper and find out more about the social science textbooks of Karnataka.
The six page chapter on “Christianity and Islam” in the History section of grade 9 Social Science Textbook in Karnataka has offended many social media nationalists. Several right wing accounts have been tweeting and retweeting incessantly about it adding the familiar dose of whataboutery to their tweets.
In Karnataka, The new Revised Social Science textbook for 9th Standard opens with 1st Chapter on Christianity and Islam. Is this really Social Science? its fine but if someone talk about Yoga in Schools for good health then its Saffronization of Education.https://t.co/5qXDZhopcm pic.twitter.com/roxChFQG7L
— Anshul Saxena (@AskAnshul) June 4, 2018
How to propogate Christianity,
How to Islamize country…
Refer to 9th standard Social Science Text book in Karnataka.
For advanced studies please visit 10 JP in Delhi. pic.twitter.com/SCL6FdVqt6
— Dr Aishwarya S (@Aish17aer) June 3, 2018
Alt News reviewed the revised Grade 9 (Part 1, Part 2) social science textbook in detail. To make sure we can get a complete picture, we also reviewed the textbooks of Grade 8 and 10 (Part 1, Part 2). As expected, the History topics are presented in a chronological order. Though the focus is on Indian history, topics from world history are added to provide the context.
As can be seen from the table above, the History part of the social science textbook for Grades 8-10 cover the history of India from ancient times to the present. For each of these periods, the curriculum is diverse, incorporating the history of various belief systems from Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism to Christianity and Islam.
Grade 8 covers the portion of ancient India & the world and chronicles the rise of Jainism and Buddhism, covering topics up to the Chola dynasty.
Grade 9 which has been the subject of controversy, covers Medieval India. The brief chapter on spread of Christianity and Islam in the world provides the context for the next chapter that covers the arrival of the Turks to India.
Further chapters include other important happenings of that era, like India’s religious reformers and their philosophy and teachings. The chapter on social reformers covers life and teachings of Shankaracharya, Madhvacharya, Ramanujacharya and Basaveshwara. The principles of Dwaita, Adwaita and Vishistadwaita are also discussed. Part 2 of the grade 9 textbook includes chapters on Mughals and Marathas, Bhakti Panth, Europe in the middle ages, Modern Europe, Revolution and Unification of nations.
Grade 10 focuses on Modern India including advent of Europeans to India and British Rule. It also talks about the various social and religious reform movements that emerged in the country in the 19th century.
The chapter on Christianity and Islam is presented as a context for the happenings in Indian history in the medieval and modern periods. It is not a chapter on “how to Islamize the country, how to spread Christianity” as claimed by Postcard News and those outraging about it.
It was also portrayed by multiple social media posts that this is a newly released syllabus. However, Alt News found that the chapter on Christianity and Islam was criticised back in 2015, when a social media user had tweeted the Kannada version of the textbook with an image of the same chapter. It was also pointed out by a user in 2013.
Karnataka’s 9th standard Social Science book 1st lesson -> “Religions of Christianity and Islam”. So secular we are. pic.twitter.com/qUM5ua6A47
— Hindu Lingayata (@Deshabhakta) August 15, 2015
Got to know first chapter in social science for class 9 students in Karnataka is introduction to Islam & Christianity. Secularism zindabad!
— Dhruva Somayaji (@DhruvaSomayaji) October 20, 2013
The curriculum for school text books in Karnataka is based on the National Curriculum Framework, which prescribes broad guidelines for school education.
National Council for Education and Training (NCERT) has published four Curriculum Frameworks in 1975, 1988, 2000 and 2005 for syllabi and textbooks for Indian school education. The current framework being followed across the country is the National Curriculum framework 2005 (NCF 2005).
Those outraging about the Karnataka grade 9 History chapter on “Christianity and Islam” will be surprised to learn that it has been prescribed by the NCF 2005. The Unit, concepts to be covered, objectives, method and evaluation and activities are all laid out by the NCF. The chapter in the Karnataka history text book has been prepared along these guidelines.
The outrage about the content of the History book is an outcome of the controversy about the review of Karnataka textbooks that has irked BJP leaders and supporters since the time it was announced.
In 2014, the Karnataka government had constituted several committees to review the State syllabus textbooks from classes 1 to 10 headed by Baragur Ramachandrappa. A total of 185 members and 27 committees were appointed to revise 352 titles in seven mediums for the 2017–18 academic year.
The committee essentially reviewed the textbooks that were prepared during the previous BJP government. A section of BJP leaders had opposed the distribution of the revised textbooks to students. They had approached the Ministry of Human Resource Development calling for a review by NCERT.
NCERT reviewed the Karnataka state textbooks on the instructions of the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The NCERT report found that “Though there is no bias in terms of gender, inclusion and environment throughout the text books, they lack activities/tasks/text that would sensitise the learners towards these concerns”. The criticism was limited to the lack of learner centric activities and not on the content as the topics covered in the books were based on the National Curriculum framework 2005.
History has been a contested battle ground for successive governments and ideologies in power, who have looked to push the version of history which best serves their interest. The controversy about the Social Science textbook is clearly a manufactured one. The chapter on Christianity and Islam is based on the National Curriculum Framework published by the NCERT. It is pure mischief to project a chapter that is providing historical context to the study of medieval history as an attempt by Karnataka government to “Islamize the country and spread Christianity”. This is once again a case of malicious and agenda-driven propaganda by Postcard News and right wing twitter users.
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Is Modi Govt the most trusted in the world as claimed by Indian media? - Alt News
Alt News Desk
16th July 2017 / 4:17 am / Last updated: 18th July 2017
Yet again, multiple Indian media organisations have made a claim based on statistics which they did not bother to verify or read the fine print. “Narendra Modi’s Govt is most trusted in the world”, was a claim made by multiple media organisations yesterday. This claim was made based on certain data that Forbes published yesterday.
According to Forbes, India topped the list of selected countries which has the most confidence in the Governments. Canada, Turkey and Russia came in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th places according to the data published by Forbes.
Soon after Forbes published its data, multiple Indian media organisations went to town proclaiming that India came out on top in the index of countries with most confidence in their Government. Here are some of the initial headlines published by various media organisations (Some of these headlines were edited later when multiple people pointed to the full set of data).
So, is Indian Government indeed the most trusted by its citizens as compared to other countries? No, not really. Had any of the aforementioned media organisations cared to look at the Forbes graphics closely or read the article carefully, they wouldn’t have made the mistake that they did.
The subheading in the Forbes graphic clearly says, “Confidence in the national government in selected OECD countries (2016)”, the operative word being “selected”. OECD which is an abbreviation for ‘Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’ is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 35 member countries. Out of the 35 countries, Forbes had selected 15 countries and their article was based on data for these 15 countries. Had any of the aforementioned media organisations downloaded the original OECD data and seen the trends by comparing India’s data in previous years, they wouldn’t have picked up such bold and screaming headlines. So, what are the facts?
An organisation called Gallup conducts a yearly poll called the Gallup World Poll. As part of this poll, surveys are conducted across multiple countries. Among the various core items that are covered by the Gallup poll, “Confidence in National Government” is one of the core items. OECD relies on this “Confidence in National Government” poll by Gallup for its section on “Confidence in National Government”. On page 215 in this year’s report, OECD mentions India along with Brazil, China, Indonesia and South Africa and 2 other non OECD member countries while comparing 35 OECD countries.
The data that Forbes presented is sourced from the OECD report which clearly shows India at 73% ranks third after Switzerland at 80% and Indonesia at 80%. The data can be downloaded from here. The bar chart below is based on this data with Indian being represented by the saffron coloured bar.
Not only has India not topped the list of countries with most confidence in their national Government, the statistics for the Indian Government show a massive 9% decline from 2007 to 2016 and is captured in the table below.
India’s position in different years can be seen from the data below:
The following bar chart captures the confidence in Indian Government over years. The 2007 report in the chart below has been specified in 2016 report hyperlinked above.
From the data above, it can be seen that India had the lowest ebb in the recent years in 2012 with 55% of the people surveyed having confidence in National Government. This shows why UPA2 Govt was not just ousted but could garner only 44 seats. The highest point seen in recent years was during the UPA1 Govt in 2007 with 82% of the people surveyed having confidence in National Government. This is also in line with UPA2 coming in power in 2009 for the second term. While NDA Government has been consistent at 73% in 2016, 71% in 2015 and 73% in 2014, it is definitely not the most trusted in the world.
When main stream media pushes out such news without any verification, it has a larger ripple effect than fake news sites. A 10 minute basic google search would have prevented these main stream media organisations from becoming the source of misinformation.
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Is PM Modi's APP sharing personal data with a third party without your consent? YES - Alt News
Pratik Sinha
24th March 2018 / 6:13 pm / Last updated: 25th March 2018
A French security researcher, who has kept UIDAI on their toes by exposing various security holes in the Aadhaar infrastructure, has claimed in a series of tweets that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s application is sending personal information of its users to a third party website called in.wzrkt.com and it is doing so without the user’s consent.
When you create a profile in the official @narendramodi #Android app, all your device info (OS, network type, Carrier …) and personal data (email, photo, gender, name, …) are send without your consent to a third-party domain called https://t.co/N3zA3QeNZO. pic.twitter.com/Vey3OP6hcf
— Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) March 23, 2018
After a quick search, this domain belongs to an American company called @CleverTap. According to their description, “#CleverTap is the next generation app engagement platform. It enables marketers to identify, engage and retain users and provides developers" pic.twitter.com/Ikqp9GbCDm
— Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) March 23, 2018
Pushing personal information such as email, photo, name, gender etc to a third party website without a user’s consent is a serious privacy breach. To ascertain whether this privacy breach occurred or not, Alt News decided to take a deep dive into this issue and investigated PM Modi’s Android App.
To ascertain whether your phone is transacting with a certain website or not, the data between the phone and the outside world needs to be intercepted. There are several software applications which allows one to do so. We used a popular software called Charles. As described on the Charles website, it enables one to view all the HTTP and SSL/HTTPS traffic between a machine and the Internet. The trial version of Charles works for 30 days after installation and runs only 30 minutes at a time. Details of how to configure Charles and your phone to intercept data is provided at the bottom of the article in the section “Technical Details”.
To verify the claim of the researcher, we installed the Narendra Modi Android app on our phone, tapped on the “Sign Up” button at the bottom and created a profile.
During the process of creation of the profile leading upto a successful registration, the APP was transacting data over the Internet which we captured using the Charles software mentioned above. What we saw was that personal information such as name, email id, gender, telecom operator type and more was indeed being shared with the website in.wzrkt.com. In the screenshot below, it can be seen that the email-id [email protected] that we entered during registration has been sent to in.wzrkt.com.
The video below will show a live demonstration of this fact-check and will show how personal information that you’re sharing with the Prime Minister’s app is indeed being sent to a third party website without your consent.
NOTE: Kindly watch the video in Full HD/1080p for better viewing.
NOTE: Those not interested in the technical details of how to setup your phone and computer for intercepting data can skip the next section.
Once Charles is installed on your PC/laptop, your phone’s proxy server needs to be configured to point to the machine which has Charles running so that it can intercept all the traffic emanating from your phone. This is done by inputting the IP Address of your PC/laptop and the proxy server port (Default: 8888) that Charles is listening on in the proxy server section of the Wi-Fi Settings on your phone.
Additionally, since the data that is being transacted between the Narendra Modi app and outside world is over HTTPS and is encrypted, one needs to install the Charles Root Certificate on your phone by pointing your Mobile browser to chls.pro/ssl and following the prompts.
Lastly, add in.wzrkt.com in the list at “SSL Proxy Settings” which in turn can be found in the “Proxy” main menu.
Once the above settings are configured, Charles running on your machine is ready to intercept the data from the Narendra Modi app on your phone.
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Fact-check: Is Sonia Gandhi among the richest politicians in the world? - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
29th September 2018 / 4:07 pm / Last updated: 1st October 2021
A purported news clipping floating across social media platforms claims that Congress president Sonia Gandhi is the 12th richest politician in the world.
The same clipping was also shared last year.
कितना लूटा है मेरे देश को…
अब तो जागो मेरे देशवासियों,!
दुनिया के सबसे 12 धनी नेताओं में
शामिल #सोनिया गांधी,
कुल संपत्ति 2 अरब डॉलर,
मतलब 1 खरब रुपए से भी ज्यादा,!!!
तो गुलामों… मोदी जी से 15 लाख मांगने के बजाय, अपनी #भूरी काकी, #मालकिन से 1-1 करोड़ मांग लो…😀 pic.twitter.com/jmmbp2W4h4
— नवजीवन कर्मकार 1️⃣K 🚩 (@NabajibanKarma1) September 24, 2020
A Facebook page I Support Modi Ji and BJP shared another newspaper clipping on September 27, 2018, according to which Sonia Gandhi is “fourth richest in the world”. Affixed to the clip is a caption that poses the question – “अम्बानी अदानी ने लाखों लोगो को रोजगार दिए कारखाने खोले तब अमीर बने. पर सोनिआ गाँधी कैसे अमीर बानी? (Ambani Adani became rich after giving jobs to lakhs of people and opening factories. But how did Sonia Gandhi manage to become rich?)” The post was shared nearly 4,000 times at the time of writing this article.
Posted by I Support Modi Ji and BJP on Thursday, 27 September 2018
The claim about Gandhi’s net worth was circulated using another narrative by several individual users on Facebook who attempted to take a jibe at the politician – “सोनिया गाँधी विश्व की चौथी सबसेअमीर महिला है…और ये पैसे उसने “मनरेगा” में मेहनत-मजदूरी कर के कमाये है (Sonia Gandhi is the fourth richest woman in the world and she earned this money by working hard under MGNREGA.)”
Alt News searched the newspaper cutting circulated by I Support Modi Ji and BJP using keywords from the report and found that it was the same article published by Dainik Jagran on March 14, 2012.
Social media rumours claimed that Gandhi was either the fourth richest “person” or the fourth richest “woman” in the world. However, the Dainik Jagran article said that Gandhi was the fourth richest “politician” in the world. According to the report, “American website Business Insider made this claim. As per the site, Sonia Gandhi has a net worth of between US$ 2-19 billion.”
The same was also reported by several other media outlets, including Aaj Tak, One India, Dainik Bhaskar and Swarajya News.
Alt News looked for the Business Insider story mentioned in all of these reports and discovered a March 2, 2012 report titled – ‘Meet The 23 Richest Politicians In The World’. Gandhi was fourth in the list, with the article claiming that her net worth was between US$ 2-19 billion.
The Business Insider story hyperlinked a website named ‘World’s Luxury Guide’ as its source. It also said that there are some disputes about Gandhi’s actual net worth and that the ‘National Election Watch’ put the same at US$200,000 (approximately Rs 1.35 crores at that time).
1. ‘World’s Luxury Guide’
Not only was this website unheard of, but the name ‘World’s Luxury Guide’ itself suggested its unreliability. When Alt News attempted to access the URL provided by Business Insider, we were redirected to a “Not Found” page. Accessing the website’s archived pages revealed that it has been taken down for over three years.
A screenshot of the ‘World’s Luxury Guide’ article that lists the world’s richest politicians is provided below. Its achieved version can be accessed here.
While Business Insider had provided ‘World’s Luxury Guide’ as the source, ‘World’s Luxury Guide’ had provided opensecret.org, forbes.com, bloomberg.com, wikipedia.org and guardian.co.uk as its sources.
Forbes had published an article in 2011 titled – ‘India’s 100 Richest’ – which does not include Gandhi’s name. In 2012, The Guardian had published a report on the world’s richest leaders, however, it too did not include Gandhi., Alt News back-searched till 2010 on the website of Bloomberg but found nothing of relevance. The remaining attribution provided by Business Insider – OpenSecret – has never written any report on the Congress president.
It was thus evident that Business Insider (and ‘World’s Luxury Guide’) was not a source that could be trusted.
2. ‘National Election Watch’
Business Insider mentioned in its article that the ‘National Election Watch’ put Sonia Gandhi’s net worth at US$200,000 (approximately Rs 1.37 crore in 2012).
Accessing this link redirected us to a report that provided the assets declared by Sonia Gandhi before 2004, 2009 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The latest figures (2014) put her net worth at over Rs 9.28 crore. As the Business Insider article was published in 2012, it must have referred to the figures Gandhi had disclosed in 2009 – Rs 1.37 crore. This matched the “disputed net worth” claims on Business Insider.
A compendium published by the Association for Democratic Reform (ADR) in 2012 had also put Gandhi’s assets at Rs 1.37 crore.
In 2014, India Today provided copies of Gandhi’s nomination papers before the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha elections, according to which she declared total movable assets to the tune of Rs 2.82 crore.
The evidence up till now suggests a massive difference between Gandhi’s declared net worth and the figure provided by Business Insider (and ‘World’s Luxury Guide’).
On November 29, 2013, Huffington Post had also published a report on the richest politicians in the world, placing Sonia Gandhi in the 12th position. However, her name was subsequently removed from the story as the information’s source, as clarified later by the media outlet, was “called into question.”
An article by India Today published on December 2, 2013, found that Huffington Post’s claims about Gandhi’s net worth were based on a report published by a website called Celebrity Net Worth which routinely writes on celebrity finances.
According to this website, “She (Sonia Gandhi) personally states her wealth to be between $200,000 and $500,000, but several sources including OpenSecrets.org and Business Insider have estimated that Sonia’s actual wealth could be as low as $2 billion and might be as high as $19 billion.”
Celebrity Net Worth had quoted Business Insider as one of its sources which has been busted earlier in this report. Each of its articles also includes a disclaimer at the end which claims that the numbers published by the website are “most accurate and up to date net worth data you will find anywhere on the internet.”
Ironically in the “Terms and Conditions” section, the website relieves itself of accountability for the information it publishes – “Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. ”
This indicates that the content on the website cannot be completely trusted. Alt News further looked for other sources that might have disclosed Gandhi’s net worth between US$ 2 to 19 billion, however, there weren’t any. Subsequently, the sources provided earlier in this article suggest the figure to be contrastingly lower than the amount being claimed.
The rumours currently viral on social media are based on a nine-year-old misreport that is being circulated as a recent event. As revealed through the course of this article, there is no conclusive evidence or data that proves Sonia Gandhi’s net worth is between US$ 2 billion to 19 billion, which is higher than the net worth of Gautam Adani and the Queen of England, and almost as much as the fifth richest woman in the world Laurene Powell Jobs.
[This is a recurring piece of misinformation and the fact-check article will be updated as and when the claim resurfaces.]
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Is that a "Tsunami" of support at Modi-Shah rally? No, it is a morphed image - Alt News
Jignesh Patel
8th April 2019 / 7:19 pm
An image featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah purportedly sitting in front of a jam-packed crowd is circulating on social media. “Modi and his well-wishers.”, reads the caption attached to the same image posted by a Facebook page We Support Dr Subramanian Swamy. This post has been shared more than 700 times and liked more than 3,400 times. Few more individuals on Facebook and Twitter have shared the image with the identical text.
Modi and his well wishers.
Posted by We Support Dr Subramanian Swamy on Sunday, 7 April 2019
One Bijay Dutta also posted the image saying, “In support of Champion of the Earth Narendra Modi jee tsunami start with huge waves Namo again”.
Alt News found that the enormous crowd shown in the image is digitally manipulated. We were able to establish that the image has been doctored through a simple reverse image search on Google, which led to the original picture.
Alt News traced the image back to December 2017, when Amit Shah and PM Modi were seen sharing a dais at the swearing-in ceremony of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur.
PM Shri @narendramodi at the swearing-in ceremony of the Council of Ministers of the Himachal Pradesh Government in Shimla. pic.twitter.com/6vdGNfHOm4
— BJP LIVE (@BJPLive) December 27, 2017
Amit Shah’s attire in the original image can be matched with the other photographs, featuring him, from the same event.
Shimla: Virender Kanwar and Vikram Singh take oath as cabinet ministers of Himachal Pradesh government pic.twitter.com/Dgbqg012XV
— ANI (@ANI) December 27, 2017
In the image posted below, the photoshopped image has been juxtaposed with the original picture.
A digitally manipulated image was circulated on social media to bolster a ‘tsunami’ of people supporting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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.
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Is the photo of Amit Shah standing on Swastika real? - Alt News
Alt News Desk
3rd December 2018 / 5:37 pm / Last updated: 18th March 2019
A photograph of Amit Shah addressing a rally was widely circulated on social media and soon became a subject of controversy. In the image, the BJP President can be seen addressing a crowd while standing on a chowki (stool) imprinted with the Swastika sign.
As religion remains a major political tool for the BJP, several Twitter users questioned Shah on the apparent hypocrisy of standing on the Hindu symbol. But there were also many others who came to the BJP leader’s defence.
However, several social media users remained unclear on whether the photograph was real or morphed.
Alt News found that the photo was present on Amit shah’s official Facebook page. It was taken on December 1 when he was addressing a crowd in poll-bound Balotra, Rajasthan.
The post was captioned – “बालोतरा (राजस्थान): राहुल गांधी शायद भूल गए हो पर मैं उन्हें बताना चाहता हूं कि वीरभूमि राजस्थान की जनता कभी भी भारत के वीर सैनिकों के शौर्य और पराक्रम का अपमान करने वाली कांग्रेसी पार्टी का साथ नहीं दे सकती। (Balotra (Rajasthan): Rahul Gandhi might have forgotten but I want to remind him that the citizens of the land of braves, Rajasthan, can support Congress party which disrespects the gallantry and courage of brave soldiers.)”
Interestingly, the post with the image was deleted after the photograph went viral. Its archived link can be accessed here.
While Amit Shah’s reason for taking down the post is ambiguous, it remains clear that the image of the BJP chief standing on the Swastika sign is not photoshopped.
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Is this an ISKCON monk killed in Bangladesh? No, 2016 photo from West Bengal - Alt News
Archit
20th October 2021 / 8:15 pm / Last updated: 20th October 2021
On October 15, ISKCON Noakhali tweeted that its devotees were violently attacked and a temple was vandalised in Bangladesh’s Noakhali. It also claimed that a devotee was killed in the recent communal violence. Another Twitter handle claimed that two sadhus of ISKCON temple, Nitai Das and Jatan Saha Prabhu, lost their lives in the violence. It is noteworthy that the news has not been confirmed by credible media outlets.
In the backdrop of this, an image of a caucasian monk serving food to Muslim men has been shared with the claim that he is Nitai Das.
BJP supporter Ram Niwass Yadav, who has over three lakh followers on Facebook, shared the photo. He wrote that Nitai used to “feed the serpent milk”, which is an old Hindi idiom meaning that helping evil persons (referring to Muslims) is a harmful, foolish deed.
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ये है इस्कॉन मंदिर के स्वामी निताई दास रमजान में रोजा इफ्तारी करवाते हुए…
बांग्लादेश मे कल इनकी भी हत्या कर दी गयी है। 👇
Posted by Ram Niwass Yadav on Monday, 18 October 2021
Similarly, several Facebook accounts such as Bihar Supports, श्री बजरंग सेना, Aditya krishna giri- president international hindu sena, and Deepak Rana Page posted this claim.
Twitter user @Lost_Temples also circulated the image.
“सांप को दूध पिलाना” कहावत सुनी होगी आपने , अब देख लीजिए , ये है इस्कॉन मंदिर के स्वामी निताई दास रमजान में रोजा इफ्तारी करवाते हुए !
बांग्लादेश में कल इनकी भी हत्या कर दी गयी है !! pic.twitter.com/FgHnOma8cD
— Ruchika (@Lost_Temples) October 18, 2021
Alt News has received several requests to fact-check this claim on our WhatsApp helpline number (+91 76000 11160) and official mobile application. (iOS and Android)
Alt News spoke with a Bangladesh-based journalist covering the attack on ISKCON temple to get more details about the incident. On the request for anonymity, the journalist said, “The situation is very dark. It’s unfortunate that the state has stopped the media from reporting these incidents. But as per my knowledge, there are no deaths reported of a white male in the recent communal violence incidents in Bangladesh.”
ISKCON Noakhali posted on Facebook that the dead body of a devotee named Pranta Chandra Das was recovered from a pond at the temple.
The viral image dates back to 2016 and was found through a reverse image search. It was published by UCA News. The photo credit is given to photographer Raghu Nath and the caption reads, “A monk from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) offers sweetmeats to Muslims during Iftar at the Hindu group’s temple in Mayapur on 22 June [2016].” Mayapur is a town 130 kilometres from Kolkata, West Bengal.
An old image from West Bengal was thus, shared against the backdrop of communal violence in Bangladesh and ISKCON Noakhali claiming that a devotee was killed. The viral image doesn’t show a white monk who was killed in the violence.
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Is this Narendra Modi surrounded by world leaders? No, it is a photoshopped image. - Alt News
Jignesh Patel
19th July 2018 / 5:34 pm / Last updated: 25th July 2018
“Friends जरा इस फोटो को गौर से देखिये, भारत के इतिहास में क्या यह दृश्य देखने को आपकी आँखें तरस गई होंगी” (Friends, look at this photo carefully, it is the scene your eyes were waiting to see in Indian history -translated) An image with the above text has been shared by Facebook page, JAY MODIRAJ (“जय मोदीराज”) which has more than 12 lakh followers. At the time of writing this article, it has been shared more than 1600 times and ‘liked’ more than 3300 times. Image depicts Prime Minister Narendra Modi surrounded by the world leaders.
Friends जरा इस फोटो को गौर से देखिये, भारत के इतिहास में क्या यह दृश्य देखने को आपकी आँखें तरस गई होंगी,
Posted by JAY MODIRAJ (“जय मोदीराज”) on Tuesday, 17 July 2018
The same image was shared by a Facebook user on April 26, 2018, with the same text. It has been shared more than 54000 times and ‘liked’ more than 4200 times at the time of writing this article.
Friends जरा इस फोटो को गौर से देखिये, भारत के इतिहास में क्या यह दृश्य देखने को आपकी आँखें तरस गई होंगी,
Posted by M.P. Agarwal on Thursday, 26 April 2018
“आप देख रहे है अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय स्तर पे भारत की इज्जत को चार चाँद लगा दिए मोदीजी ने उनको सादर नमन: और जिनको मिर्ची लगी हो वो कृपा इस पोस्ट से दूर रहे” (You can see how the respect for India has been enhanced on the international stage thanks to Modiji. Best regards to him and those who have been rattled should remain away from this post -translated). A post on July 16, 2017, with the above claim and same image, has been shared more than 38000 times.
Alt News did a Google reverse image search and found an article published by Business Insider on July 11, 2017, titled ‘A photo of Trump and other leaders staring at Putin is going viral – but it’s fake’. The article stated, “One picture that made its rounds on Twitter featured a serious-faced Putin surrounded by other world leaders, all staring at him as if they were focused on something he was saying.”
According to the Business Insider article, the original image was taken by a photographer, Kayhan Ozer for Getty Images, an American stock photo agency. The authentic image was captioned, “President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) talks with US President Donald Trump (L), accompanied by Foreign Affairs Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu (2nd R), during a session within the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Hamburg, Germany on July 07, 2017.”
Morphing images is one of the easiest methods to circulate misinformation. Very often, people tend to believe even poorly photoshopped images like this one due to their inherent biases. It is advisable that any viral photograph on social media is first cross-checked using simple techniques such as Google Reverse Image search.
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.
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Is this 'newly renovated' Ayodhya railway station? No, it's Gandhinagar station - Alt News
Aqib Pathan
10th July 2021 / 1:16 pm / Last updated: 10th July 2021
A short video taken at a railway station is viral on social media with the claim that the Ayodhya railway station is “now ready”. The post below carries the claim in Hindi. It drew over 2,300 shares.
श्रीराम जन्मभूमि अयोध्या में रेलवे स्टेशन बन कर तैयार हो गया है
जय जय श्री राम
जय श्री राम
Posted by पवन देव कौशिक on Thursday, July 8, 2021
Several Twitter users have shared the video with the same Hindi caption.
*अयोध्या स्टेशन बन कर तैयार हो गया है।। *
🌺जय श्री राम 🌺 pic.twitter.com/shSfSyrPon
— #अक्षय Dn 3 🚩 Kattar Hindu (@daniakshay__45) July 9, 2021
The video is massively shared on Facebook, gathering thousands of likes and views.
We closely looked at the video and noticed that Gujarat Tourism logo is visible at 00:33 seconds. We also found that a Twitter user commented that this video is from the Gandhinagar capital railway station.
A Facebook page named ‘Ahmedabad – Himatnagar – Udaipur Broad Gauge Conversion’ also posted this same video on July 4, with the caption “Gandhinagar Railway Station”. We independently visited the Gandhinagar capital railway station to confirm the location. Below is the comparison of a still from a viral video and the image we took at the Gandhinagar railway station.
Thus, a video of the Gandhinagar railway station is falsely viral as ‘newly renovated’ Ayodhya railway station. It is noteworthy that Ayodhya Junction is one of the two railway stations in Faizabad district, UP. The government had sanctioned the development of Ayodhya Junction in 2017-18, to model it around the Ram Temple. According to a Ministry of Railways press release issued on September 28, 2020, the total cost of the work is Rs 104.77 crore. The project is scheduled to be completed by 2021-22. Recently, a video of Mani Mandir in Varanasi was widespread as the ‘newly renovated’ Kashi Vishwanath Temple.
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ISIS destroying artefacts in Iraq shared as TMC workers breaking Vidyasagar statue - Alt News
Jignesh Patel
18th May 2019 / 4:16 pm
A couple of images, of bearded men destroying a statue, are being circulated on social media. “CCTV फुटेज में साफ दिख रहा है विद्यासागर जी की मूर्ति को टीएमसी के लोग तोड़ रहे हैं #घटिया_राजनीती और इल्जाम BJP पर….pls share this post (It is clearly visible in the CCTV footage, TMC workers are breaking the statue of Vidyasagar. #filthypolitics and blame on BJP. -translated)”, reads a message posted along with these images by Pintu Kumar Ray, an individual user on Facebook. It is being claimed that these images are the visual evidence of TMC workers who are supposedly seen vandalizing Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s statue.
Few more individuals have shared the images with an identical narrative on Facebook and Twitter. A message tweeted with the images also claims that Muslims of the TMC had vandalised the statue.
Upon reverse searching the image on Google, Alt News found that the images pertain to an incident when artefacts in Iraq were destroyed by ISIS terrorists. “ISIS has again destroyed cultural treasures, this time bulldozing the site of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, the nation’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said.”, stated a report published by American news network CNN on March 5, 2015. The Guardian had also published the images in an op-ed related to the incident on February 27, 2015.
In conclusion, old photographs of 2015, showing ISIS terrorists destroying artefacts in northern Iraq were shared as TMC workers vandalizing the statue of Vidyasagar in West Bengal.
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.
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ISIS video from 2014 falsely linked to recent attack near Kabul airport - Alt News
Aqib Pathan
30th August 2021 / 7:47 pm
On August 26, the US army reported that 60 Afghans and 13 US troops were killed by two suicide bombers and gunmen near Kabul airport after the Taliban’s takeover. As per BBC, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province carried out the attack.
A four-minute video of armed men carrying out public executions while chasing cars down a road is circulating on WhatsApp. The video is recorded by a person inside the car. As per the claim on WhatsApp, the video shows those going to the Kabul airport being killed. The video has a watermark of Kaotic.com and has been marked ‘Forwarded many times’ by WhatsApp.
[Disclaimer: The video shows violence. Viewer decretion is advised.]
The clip has also been shared on Twitter.
ये फिल्म की शूटिंग नहीं है…!! बेखबर नहीं बाखबर बनो ! pic.twitter.com/oPXPXcriGy
— 🚩🚩भगवा_ए_हिंद 🚩🚩 (@cbpunjabi) August 25, 2021
Alt News has received several requests to fact-check the claim on our official mobile application. (iOS and Android)
FACT-CHECK
Kaotic is a US-based user generated uncensored content website. Alt News noticed that the four-minute viral video has seven segments.
All the seven segments were uploaded in a 2014 broadcast by the Turkish news website Haberler. As per the report, the brutal executions were carried out by ISIS.
Other media outlets had also reported on the executions. CNN’s broadcast includes the first, second and seventh segments. According to its report, ISIS had released an hour-long footage capturing their brutal executions in Iraq. CNN anchor even pointed out that it appears as if ISIS took productions cues from Hollywood films like Zero Dark Thirty and Hurt Locker.
Additionally, we also found the final segment on the stock images platform Alamy. The website states that an Iraqi soldier dressed in civilian was executed by ISIS fighters in Anbar Province, Iraq. The image is a still from a video released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant.
Thus, several videos were merged together to manufacture brutal road assassinations. While a local branch of ISIS had planned the attack near Kabul airport, these videos do not show the terror outfit killing people en route the airport.
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Israeli army shooting at Palestinian mosque? No, 2008 video of US army action in Iraq - Alt News
Aqib Pathan
26th February 2021 / 9:08 pm
A video that shows heavy firing on a mosque’s minaret is viral on social media with the following Hindi caption, “Israeli army fired at a mosque in Palestine near Israeli border because they were annoyed with the sound of Azan coming from the mosque. (इजरायल बॉर्डर के पास फलस्तीन में बनी मस्जिद से अज़ान की आवाज़ से तंग आकर इस्राइली फोज ने मस्जिद के गुंबद पर गोली बारी करदी.)” (Archive link) In the video, the sound of azan can be heard in the background.
इजरायल बॉर्डर के पास फलस्तीन में बनी मस्जिद से अज़ान की आवाज़ से तंग आकर इस्राइली फोज ने मस्जिद के गुंबद पर गोली बारी करदी pic.twitter.com/kyrhnS8ky7
— लेहरू 2.0 (@panditlehru) February 19, 2021
The same video was uploaded on Facebook with the claim, ”Israeli army attacked Palestinian mosque, but nothing happened to the mosque even after the attack.” This post was shared over 1,700 times. (Archive link)
*इजरायल बॉर्डर के पास फलस्तीन में बनी मस्जिद से अज़ान की आवाज़ आते ही इस्राइली (यहूदी आतंकी) फोज ने
*इजरायल बॉर्डर के पास फलस्तीन में बनी मस्जिद से अज़ान की आवाज़ आते ही इस्राइली (यहूदी आतंकी) फोज ने मस्जिद के गुंबद पर गोली बारी करदी इतनी गोलियां चलाने के बाद भी मीनार पूरी शान से खड़ा रहा गोली चलाने वाले ने सोचा कि पूरा मीनार गोलियों से भून देंगे तो गिर जाएगा मगर मीनार जस का तस खड़ा रहा*😭
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Posted by Mohd Ashraf Ali-ओवैसी समर्थक on Thursday, February 25, 2021
Several Twitter and Facebook users shared the video with both captions. Alt News received a request on its WhatsApp helpline number (+917600011160) as well.
We broke down the video into several keyframes and did a reverse image search. This led us to a Turkish news article from March 3, 2008. The title of the article is “US soldier’s new game minaret percussion”.
The video was also shared by American documentary filmmaker Michael Moore in 2008 which carries the testimony of US marine Jon M. Turner. He said that the video shows the US army attacking a mosque in Iraq.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO7xwnZA124]
We found another video of the testimony of Jon Turner where he confessed that he was in Iraq in 2006 with his troops. The viral video is played at 6:40 in the testimony. “It is illegal to shoot into a mosque unless you were taking fire from it. There was no fire that was taken from that mosque. It was shot into because we were angry,” he said.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6iLoXIpJFQ]
There is also no sound of azan in the actual footage of the mosque attack.
A video of the US army firing at a mosque in Iraq in 2008 is viral with the false claim that the Israeli forces attacked a mosque in Palestine over the sound of azan.
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Israel didn't name its fighter jet 'Soumya' after Kerala woman who died in Hamas attack - Alt News
Archit
17th May 2021 / 4:42 pm / Last updated: 17th May 2021
The mortal remains of 30-year-old Kerala woman Soumya Santhosh arrived from Israel to New Delhi on May 15. Santhosh was working as a caregiver in Ashkelon, near the Gaza strip and was killed by Hamas rockets on May 10.
In the backdrop of this, several Twitter and Facebook users have shared an image of jet with ‘Soumya’ written on the side. They have claimed that Israel has named its fighter jet ‘Soumya’ to avenge her death by conducting an airstrike on the Palestinian army chief’s residence.
Facebook user Manoj Pareek posted shared the claim ona Facebook group dedicated to Zee News editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary. It gained over 12,000 likes and 1,000 shares.
[Viral Hindi text: इजराइल ने अपनी फाइटर प्लेन पर #भारतीय बेटी का नाम #सौम्या को नमन लिखकर उससे #फिलिस्तीन आर्मी चीफ के घर पर बम गिरा दिया..सच्ची श्रद्धांजलि ]
Many other Facebook posts gained several thousand likes.
Self-styled godman Yogi Devnath with over a million followers amplified the claim on Twitter. It has gained over 800 retweets.
Performing a reverse image search on Google we found that the fighter jet is Chengdu J-10, manufactured by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) for the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), China.
The image was uploaded on the Chinese social media portal Tencent’s QQ last year. It has been credited to Global Frontier Observation. Another Chinese website called Day Day News also published the image in question in 2020.
Readers should note that the viral image is doctored because the original doesn’t say ‘Soumya’ on the side.
Furthermore, Alt News did not find any Israel Defense Forces tweet showcasing J10 jets while it has tweeted about others like F35 and F15.
An image of Chengdu J-10, a Chinese fighter jet, that dates back to at least April 2020 was morphed with the text ‘Soumya’. Right-wing social media users in India have shared the doctored image with the false claim that Israel paid tribute to the Indian woman who lost her life in the recent violence.
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Israeli policeman strangling Palestinian child to death? Old video, false claim - Alt News
Archit
10th December 2019 / 8:37 pm
Recently, several accounts on Twitter posted a video of a policeman pinning down a young boy. It was shared with the text, “An Israeli policeman strangles a Palestinian child to death Saturday during the demonstration of the US embassy in Jerusalem. Despite numerous attempts to download this video on Youtube, it has been systematically removed. Please make this video viral.”
On December 3, Twitter user @wasim_dr was among those who shared the video. It was retweeted over 200 times.
An Israeli policeman strangles a Palestinian child to death Saturday during the demonstration in front of the US embassy in Jerusalem. The innocent boy even read Kalima e shahadat before dying. Please make this video viral so that it reaches all the media. 💔😭 pic.twitter.com/VRNOXxgrCS
— Wasim Bariوسیم باری (@wasim_dr) December 3, 2019
The same video was viral on Twitter with identical narrative in 2017.
An Israeli police man strangles a palestinian Child to death on saturday during the protest of the US embassy move to Jerusalem. Not bein shown anywhere. Why stand and record are you not human?!
Is this real is this what we have come to? #retweet #Israel #palestine #murder pic.twitter.com/CweFcwi9dZ
— Faheem (@Faslam_aslam) December 17, 2017
Alt News performed a reverse image search of a screenshot from the video and found an April 20, 2015 report by Aftenposten, a Norway-based newspaper. According to the report, security guards in Malmö, Sweden, used violent measures to control a minor boy who tried to sneak inside a train. Aftenposten cited a report from April 20, 2015, in Sydsvenskan, a daily newspaper published in Scania, Sweden.
We further did a keyword search on Google – “Sweden police attack boy train” – and found a February 2015 report in The Local, a European news publisher. The article included the video by Sydsvenskan.
The Local reported, “The guard, employed by security company Svensk Bevakningstjänst (at Malmö central station), had detained the (nine-year-old) boy and his 12-year-old friend after they were thrown off a train for travelling without a ticket.”
In November 2015, a report by The Observers (France 24) stated, “The boys had run away from a care home and several witnesses said that they were not able to speak Swedish.”
An article in The Straits Times identified the boy as Moroccan and reported, “The security guard has been suspended pending a police investigation into the incident…”
“After the incident, the boy was returned to a care home where he had been placed after arriving in Sweden, but within a few hours ran away with a 12-year-old boy, described in the media as being his half brother, from a car taking them to local Migration Board offices. He was found by police in neighbouring Denmark on Friday, in the midst of a national outcry over racism among security staff and police,” added the report.
The report by Sydsvenskan stated that the guards were not legally prosecuted for their violent intervention against two young minor boys at the Malmö central.
Therefore, the social media claim that an Israeli policeman strangled a Palestinian child to death is false. The video is of a 2015 incident in Malmö, Sweden where a security guard at the Malmö central station attacked a nine-year-old after he boarded a train without a ticket.
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Italian Air Force celebrating Italy's Republic Day viral as Indian Independence Day celebration at Trafalgar Square - Alt News
Alt News Desk
18th August 2019 / 5:09 pm / Last updated: 3rd August 2020
A video claiming that the Indian Independence Day was marked at London’s Trafalgar Square with fighter jets making a tricolour in the sky, is viral on social media. The video shows jets emerging behind a large building and leave a dazzling display of orange, green and white colours in the sky. The text accompanying the video reads, “Request everyone to watch this 1 minute video without miss. This is an amazing forward from Trafalgar square, London during the celebration of India’s Independence Day. Jai Hind.”
Request everyone to watch this 1 minute video without miss.
This is an amazing forward from Trafalgar square, London during the celebration of India’s Independence Day.Jai Hind 🙏 pic.twitter.com/IDdXQBZPNL
— MAHENDRA JAIN (@mahendra3) August 17, 2019
The same video is viral on facebook and twitter
Alt News fact-check found that the viral video is neither a celebration of Indian Independence day nor does it feature Trafalgar Square.
A simple reverse image search established that the building in the video is not the Trafalgar Square but Piazza Venezia in Rome.
Italy celebrates its Republic Day on June 2 every year. The event is marked by a flyover performed by the Italian Air Force aerobatic unit, Frecce Tricolour. It may be noted that the Italian flag has colours that appear similar to the Indian flag hence it is easy to make a false claim that it is the Indian Independence Day is marked by the flying display.
The display can be seen in picture tweeted by the Italian Air Force. The Italian flag is also clearly visible in the image.
72° anniversario Repubblica Italiana… oggi come ieri #unitiperilPaese!
Aspettando il #2giugno, i Reparti dell’#AeronauticaMilitare che parteciperanno alla rivista e informazioni dal portale #MinisteroDifesa: https://t.co/2Yh3aQ9uq9#FestadellaRepubblica #FestadegliItaliani pic.twitter.com/fCn2jyluHR
— Aeronautica Militare (@ItalianAirForce) May 31, 2018
Italian Air Force tweets videos of the flying display by Frecce Tricolor every year. A video tweeted by them of the ceremony in 2019 can be seen below:
#2giugno #FestaDellaRepubblica le @FrecceTricolori suggellano momento della deposizione della corona alloro al Milite Ignoto da parte Presidente Repubblica Sergio #Mattarella. Presenti Ministro Difesa Trenta e #CapoSMD Gen. Vecciarelli @MinisteroDifesa @Quirinale @SM_Difesa pic.twitter.com/PZcK5CKnGq
— Aeronautica Militare (@ItalianAirForce) June 2, 2019
The same video was viral on social media as Indian Independence Day at Trafalgar Square, London in 2018 as well and it is not clear who started this false claim.
A video is of Italian Republic Day being celebrated in Italy with a flying display by the Italian Air Force is viral in India as a Celebration of the Indian Independence Day. The claim is false.
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Italy defeated COVID-19? Misinformation-riddled conspiracy theory viral - Alt News
Dr Sharfaroz Satani
21st September 2020 / 5:16 pm / Last updated: 12th May 2021
A viral message that “Italy has defeated coronavirus” has been shared in the form of a news broadcast. It says that the country performed autopsies on patients who died of COVID and found they had actually died of “5G electromagnetic radiation”. The message is widespread in India as the country witnesses the second wave of coronavirus infections. India’s daily COVID cases have crossed 4 lakh.
Below is a post by one Thomas Bogaty that drew 14 million views as of this writing. “काेराेना नामक जन्तु काे वास्तविक्ता शैतानिकपना (It is demonic to give legitimacy to corona),” reads the caption.
The same claim was earlier widespread via text messages on WhatsApp.
“इटली विश्व का पहला देश बन गया है जिसनें एक कोविड-19 से मृत शरीर पर अटोप्सी (पोस्टमार्टम) किया और एक व्यापक जाँच करने के बाद पता लगाया है कि वायरस के रूप में कोविड-19 मौजूद नहीं है, बल्कि यह सब एक बहुत बड़ा ग्लोबल घोटाला है। लोग असल में “ऐमप्लीफाईड ग्लोबल 5G इलैक्ट्रोमैगनेटिक रेडिएशन (ज़हर)” के कारण मर रहे हैं,” reads a part of the message.
An identical WhatsApp forward was shared last year. It said, “Italy defeated COVID-19 and instead, immediately burry or incinerate the ‘highly polluted’ bodies. Italian doctors defied this order and conducted an autopsy on COVID-19 patient and found that the pandemic is not caused by a virus but by a bacterium which has been amplified with 5G. This bacterium causes blood clotting and kills patients. The cure is antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, and anticoagulants while intensive care and ventilators were never needed. Immediately, the Italian government changed the protocols, patients quickly recovered and Italy defeated COVID-19. WHO already knew about this cure but did not inform China for doing business. This pandemic is because they want to vaccinate and chip the masses to control and assassinate us and reduce the world population.”
My Goodness is this true? Some1nd2findout. US n mny cointrirs wth strongest Intel agencies cudnt detect d fact? WHO. cheated d world?Is Corona not a Virus but a bacterial infection and patients can cure only in one day? See this video and share it so that d facts can b verified. pic.twitter.com/drXuR8uyd3
— Chowkidar Ravichiruvolu🇮🇳 proudBhaaratheeyan🇮🇳 (@Ravichiruvolu1) June 12, 2020
This video and similar Facebook post claim that Italy is the first country to defy World Health Organisation (WHO) “law” to not carry out autopsies on patients who died of COVID-19. It also blames the 5G technology for COVID-19 deaths.
False.
1. COVID-19 is caused by a novel coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2, not a bacterium.
Evidence from tissue samples of patients, epidemiological data, clinical data, genomic data conclusively establishes that the current pandemic named COVID-19 is caused by a novel coronavirus and not by a bacterium. Alt News Science has previously published a detailed fact-check on this claim.
2. The WHO does not advise against autopsy of deceased COVID-19 patients.
There is no such thing as “world health law” that the WHO has control over. The WHO is not an executive body to give out ‘orders’ to countries all over the world.
As early as March 24, 2020, WHO had released an interim guidance on “Infection Prevention and Control for the safe management of a dead body in the context of COVID-19.” In this guidance, WHO does not advise against autopsy of deceased persons infected with COVID-19. In fact, it lays down the safety precautions for performing these autopsies when required. The updated WHO interim guideline dated September 4, 2020 is also consistent with the initial guidance.
Therefore it is not true that WHO ever advised against the autopsy of deceased COVID-19 patients.
3. The WHO did not order immediate incineration or burial of deceased COVID-19 patients
The WHO’s initial interim guidance states, “Hasty disposal of a dead from COVID-19 should be avoided. Authorities should manage each situation on a case-by-case basis, balancing the rights of the family, the need to investigate the cause of death, and the risks of exposure to infection.”
The latest WHO guideline also confirms this “all measures should respect the dignity of the dead including avoiding hasty disposal of the body of a person who has died of COVID-19.”
Thus, rather than ‘ordering’ immediate disposal of the body of deceased COVID-19 patients, the WHO has advised against it from the very beginning.
4. The WHO did not label the bodies of COVID-19 patients as highly polluted
The WHO’s initial interim guideline notes “except in cases of hemorrhagic fevers (such as Ebola, Marburg) and cholera, dead bodies are generally not infectious. Only the lungs of patients with pandemic influenza, if handled improperly during an autopsy, can be infectious. Otherwise, cadavers do not transmit disease. There is no evidence of persons having become infected from exposure to deceased COVID-19 patients.”
The latest WHO guideline adds “based on current knowledge of the symptoms of COVID-19 and its main modes of transmission (droplet/contact), the likelihood of transmission when handling human remains is low.”
Thus, rather than calling them ‘highly polluted,’ the WHO has suggested low likelihood of transmission when handling human remains of deceased COVID-19 patients.
5. Italy is not the first country to conduct an autopsy on COVID-19 patient
One of the first autopsy reports on patients who died of COVID-19 came from China on February 16, 2020. The first cluster of COVID-19 in Italy (local transmission) which had one death was not noted until February 21, 2020.
6. The Italian government did not change the protocol in response to autopsies
The interim guideline released by the Italian government on March 22, 2020, laid down recommendations for an autopsy of patients who died of COVID-19 infection. This guidance even predated the initial WHO guidance by two days.
The websites of the Health Ministry of Italy show that there is no change in their protocol for COVID-19, and it has been considered as a disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Their FAQ doesn’t even mention clots or thrombi. Anticoagulants like heparin are used globally, including in Italy for the prevention and treatment of clotting abnormalities in severe COVID-19 patients (Miesbach, W et al 2020). This does not mean that they do not think it is a viral illness or that COVID-19 only causes thrombosis.
Alt News Science has previously debunked the claims that COVID-19 is caused by bacteria. Since the thrombotic complications of COVID-19 were publicly known since February 2020 (Tang N et al. 2020), and even autopsy reports note the same (Fox, S. E. et al. 2020), there is no truth to the claim that this was a well-kept secret by the WHO suddenly uncovered by Italian doctors from one protocol defying autopsy.
7. Severe coronavirus infections require ventilatory and ICU support
About 5–15% of patients with COVID-19 infection require intensive care surveillance and ventilatory support (Möhlenkamp, S et al. 2020). Alt News Science has previously published a detailed fact-check on this claim.
8. Italy has not defeated COVID-19.
Note that the various version of claims covered in this article date back to at least 10 May 2020. Yet, as of 17 September 2020, Italy still has 41,413 active cases.
Therefore, Italy is far from defeating COVID-19.
9. 5G technology has not amplified COVID-19
There is no correlation between the use of 5G and the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in any country. For instance, India did not roll out 5G, but ranks 2nd in the world in terms of total COVID-19 case burden and is currently recording the highest number of daily cases. Similarly, Iran did not roll out 5G but has recorded over 395,000 cases of COVID-19. On the other hand, South Korea, a leader in 5G deployment with nationwide coverage, has been successful in flattening the COVID-19 curve with aggressive testing and other measures. Similarly, New Zealand had deployed 5G but totalled only 1792 COVID-19 cases and was free of the first wave of COVID-19. A fresh outbreak in the country was reported in August.
In fact, rather than higher frequency electromagnetic waves “amplifying” a virus, the opposite happens – viruses are inactivated by the strong electromagnetic waves. The ultraviolet rays can kill various airborne bacteria and viruses (Szeto, W. et al. 2020). For this reason, the ultraviolet and gamma rays are commonly used disinfectants.
A detailed article addressing the health concerns related to 5G can be read here.
The various conspiracy claims about the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO ‘law’ and ‘orders’ and Italian Health ministry are false. It is absurd to assert that the nature of the pathogen causing the pandemic and its cure can be kept hidden from the world. The knowledge and communication gap between experts and the masses, lack of trust in authorities, contribute to the conspiracy theories that quickly spread. But these conspiracy theories only make the situation worse as they give rise to the misinfodemic. Conspiracy theories that COVID-19 is not an infection encourage complacency and non-adherence to social distancing, rigorous hand-washing and use of masks. They can also encourage people to dangerously self-medicate with anticoagulants and antibiotics, hoping to cure the illness in the light of a shortage of hospital beds and high costs of in-patient treatment.
References:
Infection Prevention and Control for the safe management of a dead body in the context of COVID-19. (24 Mar 2020). Retrieved 10 Sep 2020, from https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331538/WHO-COVID-19-lPC_DBMgmt-2020.1-eng.pdf.
Infection prevention and control for the safe management of a dead body in the context of COVID-19. (4 Sep 2020). Retrieved 17 Sep 2020, from https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1300088/retrieve.
Rapporto ISS COVID-19 n. 6/2020 – Procedura per l’esecuzione di riscontri diagnostici in pazienti deceduti con infezione da SARS-CoV-2. Versione del 23 marzo 2020. (2020) Retrieved 10 Sep 2020, from https://www.iss.it/documents/20126/0/Rapporto+COVID-19+n.+6_2020+Autopsie+v27+marzo.pdf/c4b363a1-a246-c36c-d007-ae24ed7e648b?t=1585307031219.
FAQ – Covid-19, questions and answers. (2020). Retrieved 10 Sep 2020, from http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovocoronavirus/dettaglioFaqNuovoCoronavirus.jsp?lingua=english&id=230#2
Miesbach, W., & Makris, M. (2020). COVID-19: Coagulopathy, Risk of Thrombosis, and the Rationale for Anticoagulation. Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis, 26, 1076029620938149.
Tang, N., Li, D., Wang, X., & Sun, Z. (2020). Abnormal coagulation parameters are associated with poor prognosis in patients with novel coronavirus pneumonia. Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis, 18(4), 844-847.
Szeto, W., Yam, W. C., Huang, H., & Leung, D. Y. (2020). The efficacy of vacuum-ultraviolet light disinfection of some common environmental pathogens. BMC Infectious Diseases, 20(1), 1-9.
Möhlenkamp, S., & Thiele, H. (2020). Ventilation of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units. Herz, 1.
Fox, S. E., Akmatbekov, A., Harbert, J. L., Li, G., Brown, J. Q., & Vander Heide, R. S. (2020). Pulmonary and cardiac pathology in Covid-19: the first autopsy series from New Orleans. MedRxiv.
Dr Sharfaroz Satani is a science writer for Alt News Science and a drug safety physician. He advocates for evidence-based medicine, freethought, and social equality. He also writes satire, poetry and fiction.
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ITBP's rescue operation in Uttarakhand shared as Chinese bunkers removed by Indian army in Pangong Tso - Alt News
Aqib Pathan
19th February 2021 / 6:44 pm
In the second week of February, Chinese and Indian armies started disengagement south of Pangong Tso after nine months of military standoff along the actual line of control in eastern Ladakh. The Indian Express reported that the Indian army released video clips and photographs that “show the Chinese troops dismantling bunkers and temporary fortifications made of stone, both manually and with JCB excavators.”
A video has been shared on social media against the backdrop of reports of the Indian army releasing footage. The video shows uniformed men in mountainous terrain surrounded by JCB machines. Twitter user @Shrish_1987 shared this video with a Hindi caption suggesting that the Indian army removed Chinese bunkers after 150 Chinese tanks and 500 PLA soldiers evacuated the area. (Archive link)
जो सोचे, जो चाहे वो करके दिखा दें
हम वो हैं जो दो और दो पाँच बना दें…
पांगोंग झील से १५० चीनी टैंक और लगभग ५,000 चीनी सैनिकों के भागने के पश्चात ….
भारतीय सेना ने जेसीबी से सभी चीनी बंकर ध्वस्त कर दिए ….!
🇮🇳💪🇮🇳#जय_हिंद_की_सेना 🇮🇳🚩#मोदी_है_तो_मुमकिन_है ❤️ pic.twitter.com/mMA5tMk9CH
— श्रीष त्रिपाठी 🇮🇳 (@Shrish_1987) February 17, 2021
The same video was also shared on Facebook by several users with the same Hindi caption. (Archive link)
जो सोचे, जो चाहे वो करके दिखा दें
हम वो हैं जो दो और दो पाँच बना दें…
पांगोंग झील से १५० चीनी टैंक और लगभग ५,000 चीनी सैनिकों के भागने के पश्चात ….
भारतीय सेना ने जेसीबी से सभी चीनी बंकर ध्वस्त कर दिए ….!
🇮🇳💪🇮🇳
Posted by R.D. Amrute on Tuesday, February 16, 2021
We broke down the video into multiple keyframes and performed a reverse image search of one of the keyframes. This led us to India TV’s video story captioned as, “Chamoli disaster: 56 bodies recovered, rescue operation underway”.
Scroll had reported on February 16 that a search and rescue operation was carried out by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) at Raini village in Chamoli district. This was after the Uttarakhand glacier burst which took over 60 lives while more than 140 people are still missing.
The official Twitter handle of ITBP had also tweeted the video on February 15.
ITBP personnel with other sister organizations looking for missing at Raini, #Tapovan, #Uttarakhand today. #UttarakhandGlacierBurst pic.twitter.com/GB7aMiCucy
— ITBP (@ITBP_official) February 15, 2021
In conclusion, a video of ITBP’s rescue operation in Uttarakhand was shared with the false claim that it shows the Indian army destroying Chinese bunkers in Ladakh after the disengagement of Chinese troops. A video showing visuals of the disengagement can be watched below.
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It's not a bird...It's not a plane, It's a dodgy video posted by Piyush Goyal - Alt News
Pratik Sinha
10th February 2019 / 8:37 pm / Last updated: 10th February 2019
Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister for Railways, has posted a video of Vande Bharat Express with the text, “It’s a bird…It’s a plane…Watch India’s first semi-high speed train built under ‘Make in India’ initiative, Vande Bharat Express zooming past at lightening speed.“. The same video has been posted on Goyal’s official Twitter and Facebook accounts.
It’s a bird…It’s a plane…Watch India’s first semi-high speed train built under ‘Make in India’ initiative, Vande Bharat Express zooming past at lightening speed. pic.twitter.com/KbbaojAdjO
— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) February 10, 2019
The video was also retweeted by National General Secretary of BJP, Ram Madhav.
A delight to see d world class train made in India. Kudos to GoI n specially to Indian Railways https://t.co/C8eslwzUnu
— Ram Madhav (@rammadhavbjp) February 10, 2019
Republic TV also published an article based on Piyush Goyal’s tweet with the title “WATCH: Piyush Goyal Gives A Glimpse Of Bird And Plane-like Vande Bharat Express“.
WATCH: Piyush Goyal gives a glimpse of bird and plane-like Vande Bharat Expresshttps://t.co/88PordtQpo
— Republic (@republic) February 10, 2019
Soon after Piyush Goyal, posted this video, comments on the minister’s Facebook page suggested that the video posted is not original, and has in fact been speeded up.
We looked up the YouTube link posted by the Facebook user in the comments section of Piyush Goyal’s video post. The video has been posted on a YouTube channel called “The Rail Mail” on December 20, 2018. The about section of this YouTube Channel suggests that the videos on this channel are posted by Train enthusiasts, also known as ‘Train spotters’. The YouTube channel also has its Facebook page, and the Facebook user who contested the minister is an admin on the Facebook page.
The portion of the video that Piyush Goyal tweeted starts at the 26th second in the video below.
[youtube https://youtu.be/0_FTu9DBxMg?t=26\]
From the above video, it is clear that the video posted by the Railway Minister was a clipped portion of the above YouTube video, which was then speeded up to twice its original speed. A side-by-side speed comparison of the video posted by Piyush Goyal and the original video can be seen below.
The video was shot at Asaoti railway station in Haryana. The original YouTube video also bears a trademark watermark, which matches the Facebook user who claimed it was his video.
The video posted by Piyush Goyal has been circulating on social media since January end. A Facebook user had posted the same video on his timeline on January 30, 2019 and can be seen below.
The Vande Bharat Express (Train-18)… It shows the speed Limit of #ModiSarkar… Kabhi Rukhne Wala Nahi Hai……
Posted by Prashanth Jadhav on Wednesday, 30 January 2019
This is not the first time that Piyush Goyal has posted misleading information on social media. In the past, he’s been charged on multiple occassions for posting misleading images and information, trying to portray the development efforts of the Union Government in a positive light.
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Did Modi halt Ukraine war for evacuating Indians? BJP leaders' claim was refuted by MEA - Alt News
Mahaprajna Nayak & Abhishek Kumar
15th November 2022 / 7:42 pm / Last updated: 16th November 2022
Recently, several prominent BJP leaders claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had intervened to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine for some hours so that Indian students caught in the conflict could be evacuated and brought back to India.
In an interview with News18 Uttar Pradesh, Union home minister Amit Shah recently said that at the request of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russia and Ukraine agreed on a 72-hour ceasefire to facilitate the evacuation of Indian students. It is a matter of honour for every Indian and a testimony to the growing influence of India across the world, he added. He also made the point that he was following India’s diplomatic ties with other countries for a long time, but this was unprecedented.
Shah also tweeted a clip of the interview.
प्रधानमंत्री @narendramodi जी के आग्रह पर रूस और यूक्रेन ने 72 घंटों तक युद्ध रोक भारतीय छात्रों को जाने दिया यह हर भारतीय के लिए गौरव की बात है।
यह दुनिया भर में भारत के बढ़ते प्रभाव का परिचायक है। pic.twitter.com/vQloEp6ByJ
— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) November 14, 2022
BJP4India, the official Twitter handle of the BJP, quoted Shah’s statement to the TV channel and repeated the claim.
ऐसा पहले कभी नहीं हुआ कि 35 हजार बच्चे यूक्रेन में फंसे हों और भारत के प्रधानमंत्री, रूस व यूक्रेन के राष्ट्राध्यक्षों से बात करें,
युद्ध को 72 घंटों तक रूकवा कर फंसे बच्चों को वापस भारत लाएं हों।
ये हर भारतीय के लिए गर्व की बात है।
– श्री @AmitShah #AmitShahToNews18 pic.twitter.com/NJMVc8d7bV
— BJP (@BJP4India) November 14, 2022
While electioneering for the forthcoming Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh, BJP national president JP Nadda, too, had made the same claim. While addressing a gathering at Kotkhai, he said that 32000 youth from India were stranded in Ukaraine in the Russia-Ukraine war. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, over phone calls, urged the Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky for a ceasefire and then evacuated the India nationals.
Several prominent people shared the tweeted the statement.
The live stream of the speech is available on BJP’s official YouTube channel. Excerpts from his speech that mention the above statement starts at 20 minutes and 37 seconds of the video.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkL7fAUOQwI]
BJP’s official Twitter handle also tweeted the statement made by JP Nadda.
Likewise, BJPLive, BJP Rajasthan, BJP MP from Darbhanga Gopal Jee Thakur, BJP MLA from Chanpatia assembly constituency of Bihar Umakant Singh, and many others shared Nadda’s statement in their tweets.
In a special briefing on Operation Ganga on March 3, 2022, ministry of external affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi categorically denied that Russia or Ukraine had stopped the bombing at the behest of India. The spokesperson said, “We got specific inputs that look.. this is a route that’s available.. these are the places that Indian citizens should go by this time. We conveyed that to our citizens. And I am happy that many could make it…. there were sporadic incidents of violence, but this is a war zone and I can’t comment on the details. We haven’t met them yet…. But I am happy that significant number of people could come out.. Extrapolating that to say that somebody is holding up bombing or this is something we are coordinating, (that) I think that’s absolutely inaccurate.”
This statement by the spokesperson of the ministry of external affairs can be seen from 21 minutes 18 seconds in the video below.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX6KRwxy95A]
After numerous media organisations made the ‘ceasefire’ claim in March 2022, Alt News had published a fact-check report debunking it.
A plethora of media outlets and journalists, including Sudhir Chaudhary, claimed that Russia “stopped the war for 6 hours” at India’s behest. MEA clarified this is absolutely inaccurate.pic.twitter.com/Zbdd3wuqZd
— Alt News (@AltNews) March 7, 2022
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Jabalpur resort murder: Accused, victim from same community; police rubbish communal spin - Alt News
Kalim Ahmed
21st November 2022 / 1:41 pm
A 14-second-long video clip of a youth speaking to the camera while a bleeding woman lies on a bed with her throat slit is viral on social media. In the clip, the youth says that he slit her throat because she was unfaithful to him.
On Twitter, one Sudhir Verma shared the clip with a caption in Hindi can be translated as, “The VDO of the Jihadi youth who slit the girl’s throat in Jabalpur’s Mekhla resort is going viral! After slitting her throat he asked her not to commit infidelity. This is a lesson for those Hindu girls who go away from their society by trusting jihadis, moved by their sweet promises. Be careful, be alert…”
The caption suggests that the accused is a Muslim and this was a case of ‘love jihad’, a conspiracy theory according to which Muslim men trap Hindu women for conversion to Islam.
Another Twitter user, Alok Tiwari, shared the video on Twitter with identical captions. The video received more than 1000 retweets.
Another user by the name Dr S.G shared the video along with a newspaper cutting in which the name ‘Salman’ has been highlighted with a pen. The paper says when the woman ran away with her lover and came to Jabalpur, she realized she had landed in the hands of people running prostitution rackets. These people were being paid by a person named Salman. It is not clarified in the article whether Salman was the name of the lover or the head of the ring.
The clip has been shared multiple times on both Twitter and Facebook.
We started with a Google search using relevant keywords and came across various news reports. On November 11, The New Indian Express published a syndicated ANI report about the murder. As per the report, the accused had booked a room on November 6 at Mekhla resort in Jabalpur and had stayed alone for the night. On November 7, a woman came to meet him at the resort in the afternoon and they ordered something to eat. After an hour or so, the suspect left the hotel and on November 8 the hotel staff found the body of the victim lying in a pool of blood.
The report also mentions that the youth posted a second video on the deceased’s Instagram account on November 11 where he confessed to the crime. Alt News found the clip on YouTube posted by News18 Virals.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiz0r1dFhN8]
In this clip, the suspect identifies himself as Abhijeet Patidar. He says, “My name is Abhijeet Patidar, I have an oil and sugar business in Patna named Shriram Traders. Jitendra and I are business partners and are residents of Galgala road.” He adds that they both had an ‘affair’ with the deceased, Shilpa, and she was blackmailing and demanding money from his business partner. He then says that at the behest of his partner he killed Shilpa and is now being framed for the murder, they both have equal hands in the crime.
Alt News spoke with Tilwara police station Town Inspector SL Jhariya who clarified that the claim made in the newspaper clipping viral on Twitter, that a prostitution racket was involved, was baseless.
On November 19, NDTV reported that the accused was arrested from Rajasthan. The accused, who had initially presented himself as Abhijit Patidar from Bihar, was identified as Hemant Bhadane, 29, from Maharashtra. The report also says that he had travelled around 4,000 kilometres over the last ten days, changing his location every 12 hours.
अब पता लगा ये अभिजीत पाटीदार नहीं,महाराष्ट्र का हेमंत भडाणे है,दस दिन पहले जबलपुर में 25 साल की महिला की बेरहमी से हत्या के बाद ऑनलाइन अवतरित हो रहा था, दस दिन बाद राजस्थान से पकड़ा गया कोर्ट में वकीलों ने थप्पड़ जड़ दिये! pic.twitter.com/hEC5Ub6XeF
— Anurag Dwary (@Anurag_Dwary) November 19, 2022
India Today reported that the accused took the victim’s debit card and had withdrawn around Rs 1,52,000 from ATMs in different cities. He travelled to Raipur, Nagpur, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and Ajmer. It was when he withdrew money from an ATM in Ajmer that police were able to trace his location.
To sum it up, the alleged murder of a young woman was given a communal spin on social media based on a newspaper clipping which turned out to be untrue. Alt News has debunked several such instances in the past where criminal acts were given a communal spin on social media.
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Jagran publishes article claiming lighting diyas increases oxygen, then deletes it - Alt News
Shinjinee Majumder
1st November 2022 / 8:43 pm / Last updated: 1st November 2022
In a now-deleted article titled “दीप प्रज्ज्वलन के वैज्ञानिक और आध्यात्मिक पक्ष, जानें ये है फायदे” (Translation: Scientific and Spiritual Aspects of Lamp Lighting, Know These Benefits), Hindi news media organisation Jagran recently claimed that lighting diyas (earthen lamps) increased atmospheric oxygen. The report also listed several other benefits of lighting diyas. One can find an archive of the article here.
Dainik Jagran also tweeted the article with the caption, “दीप प्रज्वलन से बढ़ती है घर में ऑक्सीजन की मात्रा, जानिए और क्या है फायदे” (Translation: Lighting diyas increases the amount of oxygen in the house, know the other benefits). The tweet has now been deleted.
According to the article, “Lighting diyas at the door of the house increases the level of oxygen in the house“. It explains that since warm air is lighter it goes up and cold air comes down. The oxygen present in the air rushes towards the flame of the lamp. Due to this, the amount of oxygen around the lamp increases. It is further stated that diyas should be lit at the door of the house on Diwali since lighting too many diyas in a closed space will increase the use of oxygen.
A parallel was drawn between the five elements of the earth and the burning of diyas. “Diyas are made of clay, which symbolizes the earth. The oil and wick burning in it are also found in the ground itself. There is space around the earth in the way space has been imagined around the lamp. There is also fire in the lamp, it needs air to burn and water molecules are also formed in the process of burning oil.”
The author of the article also claims that diyas have several scientific benefits: Heat from the lamp destroys bacteria, viruses, etc. present in the air. Besides, no harmful elements or chemicals are released; fossil fuels are not used in lighting the lamp; the magnesium in the oil reacts with the sulfur and carbon oxides in the air to form sulfates and carbonates which results in heavier elements falling to the ground, making the air lighter and easier to breathe.
To check the veracity of the claims made in the article, it is pertinent to understand the type of reaction that produces fire, or a combustion reaction. A combustion reaction is a high-temperature exothermic (heat-releasing) redox (oxygen-adding) chemical reaction between a fuel and an oxidant, usually, atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.
Many combustion reactions occur with a hydrocarbon (like Ghee and oil used in the diyas), a compound consisting of carbon and hydrogen. The products of the combustion of hydrocarbons are carbon dioxide and water. Oxygen is thus not produced in the reaction, but is used. During combustion, the level of oxygen reduces and the level of carbon dioxide increases.
It must be noted that the article mentions, “फैटी एसिड का एक मॉलीक्यूल जलने से कार्बन के 56 और पानी के 52 मॉलीक्यूल निकलते हैं। एक फैटी एसिड मॉलीक्यूल को जलाने के लिए हवा में मौजूद ऑक्सीजन के 79 मॉलीक्यूल खर्च होते हैं।” (Translation: Burning one molecule of a fatty acid produces 56 molecules of carbon and 52 molecules of water. It takes 79 molecules of oxygen in the air to burn one fatty acid molecule). Yet, the writer has reiterated that the lighting of diyas increases oxygen several times.
Alt News spoke to Professor Abhijit Majumder, associate professor of chemical engineering at IIT Bombay, who refuted the claims made in the article. He stated, “Burning is a process that uses oxygen. The article itself says, “एक फैटी एसिड मॉलिक्यूल को जलाने के लिए हवा में मौजूद ऑक्सीजन के 79 मॉलिक्यूल खर्च होते हैं।”. Hence, burning anything cannot increase the oxygen in the surroundings”.
We also spoke to Nilesh Ranjan Maiti, who is a teacher of biochemistry and principal of Sishuram Das College in West Bengal. He said, “The claim that oxygen increases due to the lighting of diyas is false. It is common knowledge that the oxygen content in the environment is 21%. Whether it’s a diya or a candle, oxygen is required for combustion. The gases produced are mainly carbon dioxide along with other gases (depending on what is being burnt). It must be remembered that carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide are greenhouse gases. An increase in greenhouse gases is harmful to our health and is responsible for global warming”.
The article stated that the heat from the lamp destroys the bacteria and viruses present in the air. This was listed as one of the many scientific benefits of lighting diyas.
Addressing this claim, Professor Majumder said, “In terms of killing the viruses and bacteria, one can easily calculate that the increase in temp happens only for a small area surrounding the flame. Hence, a few diyas at the door cannot kill the bacteria or virus at any significant level.”
Profesor Maiti reiterated the same argument. He states, “Bacteria will be destroyed only in the immediate surrounding of the flame, which is a very insignificant number. There are a lot of harmful bacteria outside the area of the diya”.
To conclude, most of the ‘scientific’ claims made in the article are misleading. The spread of misinformation related to science has been on a steep rise, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic. Misinformation of all kinds are common on social media platforms and the daily discourse of the common man. When popular media outlets publish misinformation, they give them an air of credibility, and people fall for them even more easily.
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Jama Masjid electricity bills non payment: Fake news starts on social media, Republic TV takes over - Alt News
Sam Jawed
30th August 2017 / 9:22 pm / Last updated: 23rd November 2020
“Imam Bukhari has money to buy luxurious cars but can’t pay electricity bills,” asked Republic TV while reporting that electricity has been cut in Jama Masjid due to non-payment of bills. “Inside Jama Masjid is a complete blackout” stated the Republic reporter as camera panned to the mosque. The crew then went outside Imam Bukhari’s residence counting the number parked cars and informing the viewers about the models. What was so far fake news circulated by sites like Postcard News and Hindutva handles on social media has made it to national television. Let us look at this story about 4 corore unpaid bills by Delhi’s Jama Masjid that was doing the rounds on social media and has also been picked up by Republic TV.
The story of non-payment of electricity bill by Jama Masjid comes up every few months since 2012. This time it came up soon after the sentencing of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in an attempt to draw unrelated comparisons.
Dera properties were seized within hours of violence. Jama Masjid ka electricity bill recover karne mein 2-4 saal lag jaate hain.
— Spaminder Bharti (@attomeybharti) August 26, 2017
Though the first tweet did not say it was recent news, a subsequent tweet by a Twitter user @ArunrBits on July 27 claimed that Jama Masjid in Delhi and its 2000 shops haven’t paid electricity bills since 1947. The tweet provided no links to the news yet shared more than 3700 times.
I was amazed to discover that Jama Masjid in Delhi and its 2000 shops havent paid electricity bills since 1947.Amazing sickularism
— Jai Maa Bharathi (@ArunrBits) August 28, 2017
When asked for the source, @ArunrBits shared an Indian Express article from September 2012. The article reported that Jama Masjid had run up a power bill of Rs 4.16 crore as the charges had not been paid for the past several years. It mentioned a dispute between the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, and Delhi Waqf Board, each holding the other responsible for clearing the dues and said, “With neither ready to take up responsibility, residents in the vicinity of the mosque have been suffering as power distribution company (discom) BSES often snaps power supply to the area as penalty for unpaid dues.”
When there is fake news to be shared, Postcard News takes the pole position. In an article titled, “Huge Jolt for Imam Bukhari!! BSES cuts Power Supply for Jama Masjid due to huge pending electricity bill”, the website claimed that “it seems Bure Din have started for Baba and Imams in India” It informed its readers that “one of India’s biggest and most famous mosques, Delhi’s Jama Masjid has plunged into darkness over unpaid electricity bill of Rs 4.16 crore.” It quoted BSES and Waqf board in its story. These were bits that were picked from 2012 news without stating either the source or the date.
Those like the President of Hindu Samhati, Tapan Ghosh, who take Postcard News articles seriously, promptly quoted it as proof of India changing under Prime Minister Modi.
India is changing. Getting rid of Nehruvian Secularism. Gving way to 56″ Moditva. Mullahs&fraud Babas feeling d heathttps://t.co/eThkLZVcax
— Tapan Ghosh (@hstapanghosh) August 29, 2017
Update: The claim was revived in November 2020.
क्या आप जानते हैं कि जामा मस्जिद, दिल्ली के लाइट का बिल आजादी से लेकर आज तक नहीं भरा गया है??? pic.twitter.com/lwMeKwQWMC
— 🍁रजनी ठाकुर🍁 (@iSinghRajni) November 19, 2020
In response to queries addressed to it, BSES clarified that it is an old issue that was resolved long back.
It’s an old issue and resolved long back. Thanks for writing to us.Assuring you of our best services.
— BSES Delhi (@bsesdelhi) August 28, 2017
BSES also retweeted the tweet of Hindustan Times journalist Sweta Goswami to confirm that power supply to Jama Masjid has not been cut and there are no outstanding dues.
Power supply to Jama Masjid has not been cut. There are no payment dues. It’s a rumour: @bsesdelhi clarifies @htTweets @htdelhi
— Sweta Goswami (@sweta_goswami) August 29, 2017
Alt News spoke to BSES spokesperson who confirmed that no such power cut was made due to non-payment of dues. He said, “It is fake news. Power supply in the Jama Masjid is normal as always.” He also stated these were baseless rumours started by people on social media. He told Alt News that there was an issue five years ago which was resolved at that time. He stated that in 2012, the non-payment was due to a dispute between the mosque and the Waqf board and has long been settled.
Alt News also spoke to Tariq Bukhari who is Imam Bukhari’s younger brother. Bukhari brushed off the recent reports as false news started by someone on Twitter. He confirmed that BSES has not cut the power supply. When asked why the mosque appears dark in the Republic footage, Bukhari said he is not sure what time the footage was taken. He explained that the mosque is not lit with floodlights. The gate 3 is closed after sunset prayers and the mosque can be accessed from the main gate. He said, “If you look carefully at the footage, there are lights inside and on the steps. There is sufficient lighting inside till the mosque is shut an hour after the night (Isha) prayers.”
The news about Rs. 4.16 crore past dues and the dispute between the Imam and the Wakf board is five-year-old. Both Bukhari and BSES confirmed that power supply was regular yesterday and there were no power cuts. BSES had already tweeted debunking the Jama Masjid story as a rumour. Surely Republic could have reconfirmed any non-payment with BSES before airing the story.
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Jamia firing: A water bottle used as an excuse to raise doubts about student's injury - Alt News
Archit
31st January 2020 / 9:48 pm / Last updated: 1st February 2020
On January 30, a person opened fire at students of Jamia Millia Islamia protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). A report from the same day by NDTV stated that a random shot injured Shadab Farooq, a student of mass communications at the university. The gunman reportedly has links with Bajrang Dal, which the organisation has denied.
Several media outlets, including Firstpost and Times of India published a photograph of Farooq being escorted by a woman. In many pictures, a red-bottle can be seen in the frame. The red bottle caused much speculation. Abhijit Iyer-Mitra tweeted two pictures of Farooq and the woman where the red bottle is also visible. Mitra asked, “What’s this red bottle? Any idea?” This was retweeted over 2,000 times. Rahul Roshan, CEO of right-wing news-portal OpIndia, quote-tweeted Mitra’s tweet and said, “Portable bottle with blood transfer ability.”
Portable bottle with blood transfer ability https://t.co/xPBoCi3fUR
— Rahul Roushan (@rahulroushan) January 30, 2020
Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri tweeted one of the viral images and said, “What is the red thing hanging around his left hand? Is it a pole? A bottle?” It was retweeted over 1,500 times.
Twitter user @MrutyunjayNJ implied that the bullets shot were not genuine. He tweeted, “1. Minute traces of blood. 2. RED COLOUR BOTTLE IN HAND. 3. Supplied with glucose bottle. Pulse rate measuring, and big plaster. It’s like the man fired just gun powered and the boy applied red colour from the bottle. This are the same bullets that is used in movies.”
On January 31, Alok Sharma, a former student of Armed Forces Medical College (as per Facebook bio), posted the viral images on Facebook and claimed that Farooq’s injury is scripted. He wrote, “And if you look closely you will also notice the ‘blood’ appearing first on the opposite side of injury!!! And on the hand of the assister.”
Several users have posted these images and questioned the nature of the red bottle on Facebook and Twitter. Alt News has received several requests to fact-check the images on WhatsApp (+91 76000 11160) and its official Android application.
Alt News did a keyword search on Twitter and found a tweet by Saahil Murli Menghani, a journalist with CNN News 18. Menghani had shared the same image and said, “Shadab can be seen bleeding here. Jamia gun attack.”
Shadab can be seen bleeding here.
Jamia gun attack pic.twitter.com/kR1lbUmPhL
— Saahil Murli Menghani (@saahilmenghani) January 30, 2020
On January 30, Prof. Ali Khan Mahmudabad from Ashoka University tweeted an image of Farooq from a different angle while replying to Mitra on Twitter and said, “If you cared to look at it from another angle- another perspective even- then you would see it’s a water bottle being carried by the lady who was helping the injured man. It’s stunning to see how far you are willing to go to peddle your propaganda.”
Alt News compared the viral image and the one shared by Mahmudabad. In the viral image, the bottle has been highlighted (yellow) in a manner its strap isn’t visible. In Mahmudabad’s image, the strap is clearly visible – highlighted in red by Alt News.
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Jamia violence: Media misreport wallet as 'stone' in student's hand - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
18th February 2020 / 4:13 am / Last updated: 18th February 2020
On February 16, India Today ran ‘exclusive’ footage on the events of December 15, 2019, in Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI). This was after a CCTV video of police charging students with lathis inside a reading room went massively viral. The footage was handed over to the channel by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Delhi police. It was played as ‘authentic’ clip and used to claim that students entered the reading room with stones in their hands.
A plethora of other news organisations carried the clip and claimed that the students had stones clasped in their hands. Among the English outlets were Times of India, Mirror Now, Republic Bharat, Times Now, The Quint and DNA. Some of the Hindi channels were Zee News, Aaj Tak, India TV, NDTV India and News Nation.
Right-wing websites OpIndia and Swarajya carried similar reports.
The channel claimed that the student was carrying a stone each in both his hands. For the purpose of this fact-check, Alt News used a higher resolution video received from sources in Jamia. The video is of the same footage played by India Today. Alt News slowed down the video and watched it frame-by-frame. We found that the student was holding a wallet in one of his hands, and a flat object (possibly a phone) in the other.
Here is the sequence of events – the student enters the room with a wallet in his right hand and a linear object (possibly a phone) in his left hand. At about 10 seconds, he goes out of the frame and comes back at 17 seconds when his right hand is empty. The brown wallet is now visible in his left hand.
Wallet
The wallet is visible in multiple frames, however, is most clear at the 1:22-minute mark when the student stretches out his arm.
Another clear shot of the wallet can be seen at 2:27. If one notices carefully, the two brown flaps of the wallet are distinctly noticeable and the gap in between is darker – a shade of black.
A flat object
The student holds a flat object in his other hand which could possibly be a mobile phone. It isn’t as distinctly noticeable as the wallet and users are advised to watch the complete video in loops to self-analyse. We will attempt to provide a clean screenshot however there are a few pointers worth mentioning – a stone would typically be irregularly shaped. The object held in his hand is symmetrical and flat.
The video below shows the linear symmetry of the object held in his left hand.
Media outlets therefore jumped to the police’s defence without a basic internal analysis. The student who was portrayed as a stone-pelter was merely carrying a wallet in one hand and a flat object, possibly a mobile phone, in the other. The same student was earlier falsely claimed to be the one who was injured in the January 30 Jamia shooting.
Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News.
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Jamia violence: Student beaten in police lathicharge is not the one who torched bike - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
17th February 2020 / 10:10 pm / Last updated: 21st February 2020
A video depicting police lathi-charge on unarmed students inside Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) university began circulating on social media since February 15. The lathi-charge took place on December 15 – the same day a bike was torched about 2 km away from the university campus. A viral claim now suggests that one of the students thrashed in the lathi-charge was responsible for the arson. Below is a tweet (archive) by Shiv Sharma who claims to be a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s IT cell.
Pic 1: A masked student burnt the motorcycle.
Pic 2: The same so called student into the library of Jamia millia with book. #Isupportdelhipolice pic.twitter.com/fEFKepeOvH
— Shiv Sharma (@shivsharmaIND) February 16, 2020
A handle infamous for promoting misinformation @erbmjha posted two images to claim that the arsonist and the student are the same individuals.
Bollywood should hire actors from Jamia University.
Retweet it maximum. This video must reach to every left wing who’s blaming & shaming Delhi Police. pic.twitter.com/ramXaLRtZi
— BALA (@erbmjha) February 16, 2020
Vikas Pandey, of propaganda Facebook page ‘I Support Namo’ fame, alleged the same.
Both are same! pic.twitter.com/HiPu3oPQlJ
— Vikas Pandey (@MODIfiedVikas) February 16, 2020
A video created by propaganda page Political Kida also blames the student for arson.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8nz8jDgeFq/
While Political Kida has uploaded the clip only on its Instagram page, the video has been picked up by other handles, including a fan page on Twitter dedicated to prime minister Narendra Modi (@narendramodi177).
The handle United Memes of India (@allindiamemers) also alleged that the student was responsible for arson. The tweet drew over 1,200 likes and 800 retweets.
A simple video which identifies:
The man torching the bike
&
The man beaten by the delhi police.
If you can’t identify that both are same. Then God bless you
Hey @AltNews happy if you verify this for your “followers”
Not #ShameonDelhiPolice
We #STANDWITHDELHIPOLICE pic.twitter.com/nQyWYR6Hbq
— United Memes of India 🇮🇳 (@allindiamemers) February 16, 2020
OpIndia included @allindiamemers’s tweet in an article where the right-wing outlet attempted to discredit the police brutality on the students.
A user Saurabh Upadhyay has shared the video on both his Facebook and Twitter accounts.
The student injured in the police excess was identified as Salman by a BBC Hindi report published on February 16. He is a first-year PhD student in civil engineering. Salman said that he had covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief because the police had fired tear gas shells.
The claim that the masked man torching the motorcycle is Salman was made on the basis of the apparent similarity in the clothes they were wearing. However, there are major dissimilarities in their garbs.
1. Different shoes
The person torching the motorcycle is sporting black coloured shoes with a white sole. Salman is wearing shoes that are completely black.
2. Different jackets
In the arson video, the man is wearing a jacket with white and red stripes on the arms. Salman’s jacket is hooded with white stripes. The string of the hood can also be spotted in front.
3. Different handkerchiefs
Salman covers his face with a white handkerchief while the man who torched the bike wore a blue one.
The person seen torching the bike is therefore not the student thrashed in police lathi-charge inside JMI campus. The student who was beaten has been identified as first-year PhD student Salman. Readers can also watch the video below where we show how the arsonist’s clothes are not the same as what Salman was wearing.
Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News.
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Jamia violence: Student from video of police lathi-charge not the man seen in arson video - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
19th February 2020 / 9:18 pm / Last updated: 20th February 2020
A CCTV footage of police brutality inside Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) campus has continued to top social media discourse since it was made public on February 16. In the latest attempt to dilute the violence against students, BJP volunteer Vikas Pandey has juxtaposed (archive) two images. While one of them shows a student present in the M. Phil/ Post Graduation reading room at the time of police lathi-charge and the other shows a muffled man in a video where arsonists set a motorcycle on fire. Both incidents had taken place on the same day – December 15, 2019. Pandey alleged that they are the same person on the basis of the clothes are wearing.
Pandey runs a propaganda page on Facebook ‘I Support Narendra Modi’ which has over 16 million followers.
In the course of this fact-check, we will show the dissimilarities in their clothing.
1. Different jacket/ sweatshirt
While the student in the reading room is wearing a jacket with a zipper, the man in the arson video is wearing a closed sweatshirt. The student’s jacket hasn’t been zipped and one can clearly spot a white t-shirt underneath.
2. Hoodie
The muffled man’s sweatshirt has a hoodie which was not the case with the student.
3. Colour of the shoes
The student is sporting black coloured footwear, whereas the muffled man is wearing white shoes.
The video below has been slowed down and played on loop for viewers to spot that the student was wearing sandals/ floaters with straps. For merely a second, the unfastened strap is visible when he walks.
The claim that both the men are the same was thus, found to be baseless. Alt News had earlier debunked another claim where a student in the reading room was portrayed as the man torching the bike. Another student, who was falsely portrayed as carrying stones, was claimed to the one who was shot in the January 30 Jamia shooting.
Readers can also watch the video below where we compare the clothes worn by the two individuals.
Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News.
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Jamia violence: Student in the CCTV footage is not the one injured in Jamia shooting - Alt News
Archit
17th February 2020 / 8:17 pm / Last updated: 18th February 2020
On February 15, CCTV videos showing students blocking the door of a reading room in Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) was aired by mainstream media and widely shared on social media. The students were apparently blocking the door to stop the police from entering the room. India Today correspondent Arvind Ojha claimed that a student (the person with shoulder-length hair) was carrying a stone in his hand. Throughout the show, the channel repeated that several people entered the room from ‘outside’ with stones in their hands.
What happened in #Jamia on December 15? India Today accesses the #exclusive video. @arvindojha’s report.
LIVE https://t.co/4fqxBVUizL pic.twitter.com/qrsTsFuDw3
— India Today (@IndiaToday) February 16, 2020
Vikrant Kumar, a founding member of online news portal Lopak, tweeted (archive link) juxtaposed images of the student in question and Shadab Farooq. Farooq is the Jamia student who was shot in his arm on January 30. Kumar speculated, “These two Guys look same no?” This was retweeted over 6,300 times.
The speculation was also raised by @pokershash, co-founder of Fact Hunt.
Left- The Jamia student caught with stone in CCTV footage
Right- The jamia student shot with air gun near Jamia.
Same guy?
H/T @AKhatri25 pic.twitter.com/ERplHhuso3
— Shash (@pokershash) February 16, 2020
Similarly, several other Twitter and Facebook also circulated the collage.
As per the time stamp on the CCTV footage uploaded by Kanak News, the student with shoulder-length hair was spotted in the reading room corridor at 18:05:30.
Farooq told Alt News that the student in CCTV video isn’t him. He also added that he was at Jashn-e-Reskhta, an annual Urdu literary fest held on December 15.
According to the Jashn-e-Rekhta website, the event took place at Mayor Dhyan Chand National Stadium near India Gate.
While speaking with Alt News, JMI student Nawa Fatima also said that Farooq was at Jashn-e-Rekhta on December 15. “Approximately 10 of us went to the event. We started to leave the stadium around 6.30 pm. That’s when we were informed not to go to college because of the violence. The group was together until 7.30 pm at the Pragati Maidan metro station, then finally going their separate ways,” she said,
Fatima sent a group photo from the event via email. Farooq has been highlighted in red.
Alt News analysed the EXIF data of the above image and noted that it was clicked on December 15, 2019, at 4:42:15 PM.
Another JMI student (name concealed at request) shared a screencast of her phone gallery with multiple photographs from the event. This student had clicked the photograph shared by Fatima. The timestamp on the image on their phone is also December 15, 2019, 4:42:15 PM. Alt News is not uploading the screencast for the sake of privacy.
Multiple students (identities concealed at request) from JMI confirmed to Alt News that the person in the CCTV footage is Mohammad Ashraf Bhat, a PhD student at the university.
As per the time stamp on the CCTV footage, the police lathi-charge took place at around 6 pm. As informed by Fatima, Farooq was with her till 7:30 pm.
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Old video from Noida shared as pro-Nupur Sharma rally in Jammu - Alt News
Abhishek Kumar
21st June 2022 / 8:04 pm
After now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s controversial remarks against Prophet Mohammad, the Muslim community carried out protests in several parts of the country. Hindu organisations, in response, took out counter-protests in support of Nupur Sharma in Delhi, Hajipur in Bihar, Arra, and Rohtas.
Against this backdrop, a video of a rally has been widely shared on social media. In the video, a crowd of youth is raising slogans with saffron flags in their hands. It is being claimed that Hindus took out a rally in Jammu in support of Nupur Sharma. (Archive link)
Twitter user Jalpa Baraiya made a similar claim while tweeting the video. (Archive link)
BJP supporter Suryakanta Das posted this video on a Facebook group named ‘Odisha with BJP’ and made the same claim.
This video is viral on Facebook and Twitter with the same claim.
Alt News performed a reverse image search of a frame from the video along with relevant keywords. We found the same video posted on a Facebook page named ‘RSS NOIDA’ on April 18, 2022. The page states the video shows a Shobha Yatra organised on the occasion of Hanuman Janma Utsav and Shri Ram Navami.
Based on this information, we performed another keyword search on Facebook. A video recorded from another angle of the same rally was found on the Facebook page ‘Vishva Hindu Parishad – VHP Noida.’ The caption claimed that the video was shot in Noida.
Upon a closer look, we noticed some landmarks in both videos. Searching on Google Maps, we found a video that confirms that the viral video was recorded from the foot overbridge near Botanical Garden metro in Noida.
Thus, the video is not from Jammu but Noida. It was falsely claimed that a procession was taken out in support of now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma in Jammu. But this video has been present on the Internet since April, while Nupur Sharma’s controversial remark about Prophet Mohammed was made in May end.
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).
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Janam TV falsely links IS-Al Qaeda to annual functions in Kerala college - Alt News
Jignesh Patel
1st January 2019 / 5:24 pm / Last updated: 2nd January 2019
“IS – Al Qaeda organizations take roots in Kerala; in the Capital, students demonstrate raising flags of these terror organizations- translated”, read the headline of a news report published by Kerala’s regional news channel Janam TV on December 29.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Or0UDAm0Q
Based on this video footage, the report screamed, “JANAM Big Break”. It claimed that students of CH Mohammed Koya Memorial College in Varkala held a demonstration wherein they raised flags of terrorist organizations IS and Al Qaeda with the support of the college management, and that the contagion of terrorism is spreading in a section of Muslim students in Kerala. The report further stated that students of this college were all dressed up like ‘Al Qaeda terrorists’ and were waving ‘Al Qaeda’s’ flag’ while the college walls were all painted with graffiti glorifying these terror organisations. Janam TV report also claimed that a drawing of slain terrorist Osama Bin Laden was present on the wall.
Alt News found several media reports on Janam TV’s news broadcast. The video dates back to March, 2018 when students of the college were celebrating their annual day. According to the management and students, the dress code for the annual day celebration was black, which was wrongly linked to terror organisations by the channel.
Speaking to The News Minute, Sharan Suresh, a final year BCA student of the college at the time, said, “We were carrying flags representing the different departments of the college, like BCA has one, TTM has another. Wearing black was just part of the celebrations on our annual days, just like most colleges do, following some kind of a dress code.”
The institution is managed by the Muslim Education Trust for Coastal Area (METCA). According to the General Secretary of METCA, the students might have scribbled the walls but the management has insisted on fining them for vandalism.
In a statement given to The Hindu, Aiyoor Sub Inspector (SI) Sajeev, said, “Following the report, we had visited the college. We also inspected the toilets as the television report claimed that these had suspicious drawings supporting terrorism. We found only typical drawings found on campuses, with danger signs, pirate faces, and other scribblings. The video of the celebration also did not have anything suspicious.”
Actor Salim Kumar was the chief guest invited at the annual day celebration. Speaking to The Hindu Kumar said, “It is unfortunate that it has been twisted this way because it is a Muslim management college. The students did not indulge in any sloganeering as claimed by the channel. It is also funny that all the students have been branded as terrorists. Even I was wearing black. Today, the channel came to interview me and I told them what had happened.”
An article was published by The Organiser, the mouthpiece of the RSS. It was mainly based on the Janam TV report and claimed that a group of students who are allegedly linked with ‘Kerala-based Islamist outfits’ had hoisted flags of ‘Islamic terrorist organisations’.
PGurus, a right-wing mouthpiece based in the USA has also published an article on December 29, 2018. The website also quoted a senior intelligence official saying, “We are sure that there are IS and Al Qaeda elements operating in college because such rallies can never form the part of college day celebrations”.
J NandaKumar, a senior RSS leader also tweeted Janam TV’s news video with an identical narrative.
@TVJanam released visuals of college students rallying in solidarity with terrorist organisations like ISIS& Al-Qaeda and graffiti glorifying Osama bin Laden on a college campus in Varkala, Tvm. Students spotted wearing ‘terrorist costumes’ in the video.https://t.co/isDKt75rwK pic.twitter.com/JnMgYuy1td
— J Nandakumar (@kumarnandaj) December 29, 2018
Canadian Author Tarek Fatah tweeted The Organiser’s article saying, “Al-Qaeda and ISIS presence in university campuses in the Indian state of Kerala.” Postcard News founder Mahesh Vikram Hedge also tweeted the video calling students ‘terror sympathisers’.
Several other individual users have shared Janam TV‘s news coverage with similar claims. @rajanandbjp, a Twitter handle posted the clip suggesting that students had raised pro-Al Qaeda slogans.
In conclusion, Janam TV painted a nine-month-old video of an annual day celebration (where students dressed up in black) as support to pro-Al Qaeda and Islamic state by the students.
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.
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January round-up: Political sniping continues unabated in 2019 - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
6th February 2019 / 8:02 pm
January, 2019 turned out to be business as usual for purveyors of misinformation, who used all sorts of tactics to manipulate the views of social media users.
Several leaders and members of the BJP tweeted a 2013 report, according to which former Congress president Sonia Gandhi was the fourth richest woman in the world. This included BJP spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay. The basis of the claim was a report by Times of India which was attributed to Huffington Post.
Alt News found that this information about Sonia Gandhi had first appeared in 2013 in an article by the Huffington Post. Ms. Gandhi’s name was later removed from the article as the source of the information was “called into question”. It turned out that this was a classic instance of misreporting by Huffington Post, as the source of the information was dubious at best. According to the latest figures (2014), Sonia Gandhi’s net worth is at over Rs.9.28 crore.
“विदेश में जाकर अपने देश की इज्जत नीलाम करने वालों को इसी प्रकार इज्जत मिलती है जैसी अबू_धाबी के दैनिक अखबार @gulf_news ने RahulGandhi को पप्पू की फोटो छापकर दी है। (The one who brought disrespect to the country at international forums now gets ‘respected’ in this manner. Gulf News, a daily from Abu Dabhi, has published Rahul Gandhi’s image as ‘Pappu’. -translated)”
An image of a caricature supposedly published by Gulf News with the aforementioned text was circulated on social media. It claimed that the Congress President had been ridiculed by a top news organisation when he went on a visit to the UAE. Among those who shared it included Mahesh Vikram Hegde, founder of Postcard News, and Gaurav Pradhan. Both Pradhan and Hegde are followed by PM Modi on Twitter.
The narrative that Gulf News was mocking Rahul Gandhi with a caricature and calling him ‘Pappu’ was false. The caption affixed with the caricature read, “HOW PAPPU LABEL HAS CHANGED RAHUL”. The caricature was in fact signed by Rahul Gandhi himself, and was published along with an exclusive interview given to the newspaper.
A video of Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal was shared widely on multiple social media platforms. The video shows Kejriwal seated in a car and speaking to the camera. His speech appears to be slurred. The accompanying claim was that Kejriwal is drunk. The duration of the video is around one minute. The video was shared widely across multiple social media platforms, and WhatsApp.
The original video was posted by Arvind Kejriwal himself on his official Facebook page. Kejriwal had posted the live video on January 29, 2017 when he was campaigning for his party in Punjab ahead of the assembly election which took place that year. This video had been deliberately slowed down in order to make it seem as if Kejriwal was speaking in an inebriated condition.
“शाम होते ही #शराब के नशे में चूर हो जाने वाली से #कांग्रेस को उम्मीद हो सकती है मगर देश को नहीं है (Congress can have their hopes on those who get drunk every evening but the country cannot. -translated)”A video of Priyanka Gandhi speaking angrily with people at what seems like a public gathering had gone viral on social media. The text circulated along with the video suggested that she can’t be trusted as a politician since she is an alcoholic.
Alt News found the same video tweeted by ANI on April 12, 2018. It was captioned, “Priyanka Gandhi gets angry at the candlelight march, says ‘Nobody will push each other. You should know the reason for which you are here. If you cannot behave go home. Now, all of you will silently walk till there”. Priyanka Gandhi was at the midnight candlelight march led by the Congress President Rahul Gandhi to protest the Kathua and Unnao rape cases. According to a India Today report, she lost her cool when the crowd did not let her pass and her children were also pushed around at the march.
On January 11, former CBI director Alok Verma resigned from service a day after a high-powered committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to remove him from his post and transfer him to the post of DG, Fire Services. A day after this, a claim about the former CBI chief calling PM Modi, the most corrupt Prime Minister in his resignation letter went viral on social media.
The above post was by Viral in India, which is known to regularly post fake content on social media. The truth of the matter is that Verma in his resignation letter to the DoPT had made NO reference to the Prime Minister.
A poster about a supposed DNA expert’s claim that Rahul Gandhi is not the son of Rajiv Gandhi was posted on social media. It has been shared by several individuals on Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. The claim was circulated in the form of a newspaper clipping.
Alt News did a Google search with key words given in the poster and found that no such media report exists on the internet. Another search about DNA expert named Martin Sizo also yields no search results. We also couldn’t find a news report on such a press conference held by a DNA expert in any publication.
On January 19, Opposition leaders of 20 political parties came together for Mamata Banerjee’s ‘United India’ rally . At the rally, Arvind Kejriwal severely criticised the BJP and called upon people to defeat them at any cost.
Shortly thereafter, a 19-second clip of Arvind Kejriwal was circulated on social media. In the clip, Kejriwal can be heard saying, “मैं जितना सोचता हु उतना मेरा शरीर कांप उठता है। अगर ये दोनो दोबारा 2019 में आ गये, अगर मोदी और अमित शाह 2019 में आ गये तो दोस्तो ये पाकिस्तान नही बचेगा, ये पाकिस्तान को बर्बाद कर देंगे। ( It sends shivers down my spine to think that if these two come back to power in 2019, if Modi and Amit Shah are re-elected in 2019, then friends, Pakistan won’t survive. They will ruin Pakistan. -translated)
Finally Arvind Mawali spoke the truth 🤬😡😂#WA pic.twitter.com/4BCJMFctVz
— Hardik (@Humor_Silly) January 19, 2019
Alt News found that the 19-second clip circulating on social media was doctored. The original and extended version of the video was tweeted by several media outlets. The video shared on social media was digitally manipulated, and the words “this country” were replaced with “Pakistan”, in order to show Kejriwal as a Pakistan sympathiser.
A photograph of chidren holding green coloured flags in their hands started was circulated on social media on Republic Day. It was claimed that Muslim school children in Kerala boycotted Vande Mataram and hoisted Islamic flags. The photograph was shared widely on Twitter and Facebook. BJP Spokesperson Vaibhav Aggarwal had queried Alt News regarding the veracity of the image.
@AltNews @free_thinker Can You try & check this and come back on truth please ?I know this is a needle in the hay stack pic.twitter.com/2CupfuU7Uf
— #VAIBHAVAggarwal #BJP (@thevaibhavag) January 28, 2019
Interestingly, Alt News found that the same pictures had been circulated in the past as well, around the time of Independence Day. The narrative was the same- Muslim school children in Kerala had hoisted Islamic flags while refusing to sing the national song. The green coloured flags are of the Indian Union Muslim League, a Kerala-based political party. The photos are of a IUML rally which took place in May 2013 in Malappuram, Kerala.
On January 11, a Twitter user tweeted a photograph of an emaciated man claiming that a Jain monk is fasting unto death to stop cow slaughter in India. It was retweeted by many including, former Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai. The photo had been shared with the same claim back in 2015 as well.
Alt News fact-checked this claim and found it to be false. The photograph is representative of the Jain ritual of Santhara, in which the individual fasts unto death. The practice of Santhara is limited to Jain monks and nuns.
A video was circulated on social media along with the claim that the woman seen wailing, along with others was mourning the death of a Hindu woman who was raped in Rajasthan after the Congress party came to power. The message claimed that the police was not taking action as the perpetrators belonged to the Muslim community and that the incident occurred in a Muslim majority area.
आ गई कांग्रेस सरकार हो गया बलात्कार शुरू
ए विडीयो राजस्थान का हे एक हिन्दू लडकी को मारा ओर घर मे लेजाकर बलात्कार किया वहा कि पूलीस भी कूछ नही कर रही क्यू कि ये जो लड़के हे जो मुस्लिम है वहा मुस्लिम आबादी जादा हे आज इसके साथ हूवा हे कल आप के साथ भी होगा इसकी मदत करो हाथ जोडता हू इस जगह अपनी बहन बहन समझकर इसको इतना फेलाओ कि मीडीया और बेटी बचावो नारा देनेवाले तक पहुचा दो इंसानियत के वासते जितनेभी ग्रुप है उसमे छोड़ते रहो रुकना नही चाहिए
Posted by ठा. आकाश सिंह चौहान on Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Alt News fact-checked the video and found that the people seen in the video were mourning the martyrdom of late constable Hansraj Gurjar of the BSF. Gurjar was killed in firing along the International Border in the Chamliyal post area of Samba district in Jammu and Kashmir. A soldier’s death was communalised for political gains.
On January 23, India TV ran a show – ‘Unheard stories of PM Narendra Modi’ – where the channel broadcasted an over 20-minute special on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s life, starting with his childhood days. At 4:10 minutes India TV flashed an image where the PM could be seen sweeping the floor.
One of the photographs used by India TV to showcase the prime minister’s struggles was a morphed image. The image where PM Modi can be seen sweeping the floor was viral on the internet since the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. However, an RTI petition filed in 2016 had revealed that the photograph was fake.
“Rahul Gandhi dumbfounded in Dubai by little girl’s questions” read the headline of a story on the ‘My Nation’ portal. The article claimed that during Rahul Gandhi’s recent visit to Dubai, a 14-year old girl had asked him two questions that stumped him. According to the article, the questions embarrassed the Congress President who “dismissed it with a smile” and the live telecast was cut by Congress.
The write-up says that the first question she asked “was on how Rahul Gandhi, who speaks about how caste distinction is rampant, embraced Hinduism while applying ashes on his forehead in Gujarat and wore the kufis (traditional cap that Muslims wear) while visiting Kashmir.”, whereas the second question asked to the Congress president was, “Congress prides itself for having ruled India for several decades. The welfare and development that were not achieved then, will be done now?”The article by My Nation has no accompanying video to back its claim.
Alt News found that the claim had originated from a Tamil website and was picked up by My Nation, followed by Postcard News and Rightlog. A picture of a young girl was circulated in all the articles and in social media posts. Using reverse image search, Alt News found that the picture of the girl was taken from a 3 year old Youtube video. According to the description, this video was shot at St. Joseph’s High School in Vikhroli, a suburb of Mumbai.
Moreover, Alt News confirmed through multiple channels that MyNation‘s article was concocted. No such interaction with a 14-year old had taken place as claimed in the article, and no such questions had been asked to Rahul Gandhi.
“Smriti questions Rahul ‘manhood’”, read the headline of an article published by The Telegraph on January 5, 2019. The article claimed that Union Minister Smriti Irani appeared to question Rahul Gandhi’s ‘purushartha’ (‘manhood’) while comparing it with that of BJP President Amit Shah. In the article, Smriti Irani is quoted saying, “The BJP president earned his post through his manhood, Rahul got his thanks to his mother’s blessings”.
The statement ascribed to the textile minister said,“बीजेपी के अध्यक्ष अपने पुरुषार्थ से बने है। राहुल गाँधी अपनी माता के आशीर्वाद से कांग्रेस के अध्यक्ष बने है।”. The Telegraph translated the word ‘purushurtha’ to manhood,while the appropriate translation should have been, “The BJP President earned his post through his industriousness/hard work, Rahul got his thanks to his mother’s blessings.”
ये स्वीडन , स्विजरलैंड या यूरोप का नहीं बल्कि भारत का चित्र है मुंबई-गोवा राष्ट्रीय महामार्ग NH66 कशेडी घाट मेरा देश बदल रहा है , ….!
राष्ट्र नायक मोदीजी को धन्यवाद (This is not Sweden, Switzerland or Europe but India. Mumbai-Goa National Highway NH66 Kashedi Ghat. Mera Desh Badal Raha Hai- Thank you to nation builder Modi ji- translated).
A photograph of a magnificent looking road was shared on social media with the claim that it is the outcome of the developmental efforts of the Modi government.
A reverse search of the image showed that it is of a highway in Turkey. The Mersin-Antalya highway was passed off a stretch of National Highway 66 between Mumbai and Goa.
On January 17, BJP Karnataka tweeted a collage of images drawing comparison between 2009 and 2019 to depict the positive changes in India brought about by the Modi-led government at the Centre. Latching on to the 10yearschallenge trend viral on social media, in an attempt to bolster its image as a development-oriented regime, the party tweeted the photographs with the hashtag #10YEARCALLENGE , misspelling Challenge as ‘Callenge’.
#10YearCallenge Modi style ! 😎 pic.twitter.com/2z0Qqnqc9c
— BJP Karnataka (@BJP4Karnataka) January 17, 2019
Alt News found that some of these images were misleading. For instance, one image was taken from a documentary shot in 2014, while another photo was taken from an article which reported on the limitations of government schemes and developmental initiatives.
The official Twitter handle of the Bharatiya Janata Party tweeted two purported images of the Western Peripheral Expressway. The image on the left intended to depict a barren land, while the photograph on the right attempted to showcase how it was converted into a fully operational expressway. BJP tweeted the images with the hashtag #5YearChallege and captioned it as – “Western Peripheral Expressway providing world-class infrastructure became operational in a time-bound deadline.”
Alt News found that the photograph on the left is of the Agra-Lucknow expressway, and was clicked in 2015. The photo on the right was of the Delhi-Meerut expressway.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi was on a two-day visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the beginning of January. During and ahead of his visit, Congress leaders and supporters on social media went overboard in their projection of his supposed popularity, tweeting and sharing photographs which showed Rahul Gandhi’s face plastered across billboards, and on the back of buses in Dubai.
Dubai is all set to listen the beloved leader @RahulGandhi. He will be talking to Indian Diaspora and Students on his two day visit. #RahulGandhiInUAE #RGinUAE pic.twitter.com/OJA9a8xrlY
— Khursheed Ahmed 🇮🇳 (@KhursheedAhmedA) January 11, 2019
These photos were manipulated. The photograph of Gandhi’s poster on the back windshield of a bus was photoshopped. The photos of him on billboards were created using an image software application.
There were a few other significant instances of misinformation/disinformation apart from the above.
“In four and a half years of Modi’s government, 61 civilians died, 200 jawans were martyred and 1701 terrorists were liquidated, and in 10 years of Manmohan Singh’s rule, 1788 civilians lost their lives, 1177 jawans were martyred and only 241 terrorists were killed. Now the nation should answer who is the real protector of this nation that India can trust” (translation). This set of statistics was shared by actor turned BJP MP Paresh Rawal on Twitter with the words “Point to be noted !!!” It was shared on social media in the form of a newspaper clipping.
A fact-check of these numbers revealed that they are way off the mark. Also, the above image is manipulated- the numbers have been changed in order to show Modi government in better light than its predecessor.
“मार्च में मेरे शासनकाल के दो वर्ष पूरे होंगे। मेरे अब तक के शासन में, कोई दंगा नहीं हुआ है। (In March, two years of my term will be completed. In my tenure so far, there have been no riots -translated)” tweeted Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Jan 3, 2019. He claimed that during his tenure, there have been no riots.
मार्च में मेरे शासनकाल के दो वर्ष पूरे होंगे। मेरे अब तक के शासन में, कोई दंगा नहीं हुआ है।
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) January 3, 2019
While Adityanath claimed that there have been no riots during his tenure, the Home Ministry’s report suggests otherwise. According to a reply given by Hansraj Gangaram Ahir, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs in Lok Sabha on February 6, 2018, there were 822 incidents of communal violence in India in 2017 out of which 195 had occurred only in Uttar Pradesh. In a total of 195 incidents of communal violence, 44 people died and 542 people were injured.
At his rally in West Bengal’s Malda, BJP president Amit Shah claimed that no slogans of ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ were raised during the Opposition’s Mahagathbandhan rally. “जिस गठबंधन की रैली में भारत माता की जय का जयकारा ना लगता हो, वन्दे मातरम् के नारे नहीं लगते हो, वो देश का क्या भला करेंगे? श्री अमित शाह (An alliance where Bharat Mata ki Jai and Vande Mataram slogans were not raised, how can it do good for the country? Shri Amit Shah),” tweeted the Bharatiya Janata Party from its official handle.
The United India Rally, where opposition parties came together to rally for a change in central government, took place on January 19 at Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground. The over 5-hour video of the event contradicted Amit Shah’s statements. At around 3:04:35 in the full video, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee can be heard chanting ‘Vande Mataram’, which is preceded with the chants of ‘Jai Hind’.
On January 6, Twitter handle Know The Nation (@knowthenation) tweeted a video of Rahul Gandhi addressing the Lok Sabha on the Rafale Deal. In the 9-second clip, the Congress President can be heard saying – “I have no proof so far, but I am very clear that the Prime Minister is directly involved.” This gave the impression that Gandhi was accusing PM Modi of corruption without any evidence. The video was viewed over a million times, and can be accessed here.
“I have no proof so far, but I am very clear that the Prime Minister is directly involved”#RafaleDeal pic.twitter.com/54AUXcG7sz
— Know The Nation (@knowthenation) January 6, 2019
Know The Nation had tweeted 9 seconds of a much longer video and placed Rahul Gandhi’s statement out of context. If one listens to his entire speech, Gandhi does not say, “I have no proof so far, but I am very clear that the Prime Minister is directly involved.” In fact, his statement was directed at Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. He says that he does not have any proof so far of her involvement, but the Prime Minister is directly involved in the scam. Alt News’ story on Know The Nation can be read here.
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.
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Jatayu, mythical bird from Ramayana, spotted in Kerala? No, it’s a condor from Argentina - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
29th July 2019 / 4:41 pm / Last updated: 9th June 2021
A video of a huge, magnificent bird fluttering its wings while perched on a cliff, was posted by Facebook user Ajit Rathi with the claim that this bird is Jatayu, the mythical bird of the Ramayana. His post gained 33,000 shares
The video is also circulating on Twitter.
.रामायण में जिसका वर्णन है वही जटायू पक्षी का किसी को एक बार भी दर्शन नहीं होता।
यह जटायू पक्षी केरल के एक जंगल मे दिखाई दिया। कितना सुंदर पक्षी है ऑंखें भरकर देखो। दर्शन करें।
जय श्री राम 🙏
सौजन्य : Whatsapp pic.twitter.com/iczFNI5v4j
— Col Mayank Chaubey🇮🇳 (@a_proud_veteran) June 7, 2021
The video had viral on Facebook in 2019 when the bird’s name was misspelt as ‘Jadayu’.
In the epic Ramayana, Jatayu witnesses Sita being kidnapped by Ravana and tries to stop him before Ravana chops off one of its wings. According to legend, the mythical bird fell at Chadayamangalam in the Kollam district of Kerala. The viral message claims that the Jatayu has been spotted there. The message had also been circulated in Marathi.
The bird seen in the video is a condor. The condor is a common name for two species of vultures- the Andean Condor which is found mainly in the Andes mountain range of South America, and the California Condor which inhabits California and parts of Arizona and Utah in the USA. These are two of the largest flying birds, with a wingspan of up to 3.2 metres for Andean Condors.
The video circulated on social media platforms is not recent. Alt News reverse-searched one of the frames of the video and found that it was uploaded on YouTube in April 2014. The video is posted below.
The name of this condor is Sayani. Sayani was found poisoned at Catamarca, Argentina before she was rescued and successfully released into the wild. The Dodo reports,
“With the help of local police and officials, Sayani was sent to the Buenos Aires Zoo for treatment for over a year. And finally, 16 months after being found, the bird became strong enough to be wild again. On March 28, 2014, Sayani’s rescuers gathered on the top of a mountain in Catamarca with Sayani, ready to set him free.”
A giant sculpture of Jatayu has been installed atop a hill in Chadayamangalam in Kerala, the place where the mythical bird is supposed to have fallen. It may be reiterated that the claim accompanying the viral video asserts that the bird was spotted there.
In conclusion, it may be stated that the viral video does not depict the mythical bird Jatayu. It is a video of a condor that was rescued and then released into the wild in 2014. A giant sculpture by an Italian artist was passed off as the skeleton of Ghatotkach, the son of Bheem in the Mahabharata.
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.
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"Jawans meant to die": Old statement by BJP MP circulated as recent remark after Pulwama attack - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
16th February 2019 / 2:39 pm / Last updated: 15th March 2019
In the wake of the deadly terror attack in Pulwama, Kashmir which led to over 40 CRPF jawans being martyred, a quotation ascribed to a BJP leader has gone viral on social media.
सेना के जवान मरने के लिए ही होते हैं. सेना को मरने के लिए ही पैसे मिलते हैं…..!#नेपाल_सिंह भाजपा सांसद (Army jawans are bound to get killed. They are paid for doing so- translation). This statement has been attributed to Nepal Singh, a BJP MP.
#pulwama
Posted by We Hate Na Rendra Mo Di on Thursday, February 14, 2019
The official handle of Mumbai Congress also posted about this statement, tweeting a Times of India article which quoted Nepal Singh.
‘Soldiers die, such things happen,’ says BJP MP Nepal Singh. Such insensitivity, while the Country mourns deaths of our Jawans. https://t.co/ZiY4ltHj46
— MumbaiCongress (@INCMumbai) February 15, 2019
The above post is by a Facebook page We Hate Na Rendra Mo Di. The infographic is by Viral In India, a popular page with a large following which mostly posts anti-BJP content and has spread misinformation in the past. The quote has also been shared by several individual users on Facebook as well as Twitter.
While the statement has been correctly ascribed to Nepal Singh, BJP MP from Rampur, it was made last year i.e. in January 2018, and is NOT related to the recent terror attack in Pulwama. Singh’s words had been covered extensively and had caused a massive furore, following which he had tendered an apology. In the video posted below, Nepal Singh can be heard uttering those controversial words. Incidentally, the backdrop of this statement was a terror attack which had taken place on a CRPF training camp in Pulwama on December 31, 2017 in which four CRPF personnel were martyred.
While the BJP MP was unanimously criticised for his insensitive utterances and rightly so, the attempt to portray it as a recent statement in the wake of the Pulwama attack is mischievous and smacks of political opportunism.
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.
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Jean Drèze is an Indian National, repeating a lie will not change the FACT - Alt News
Sam Jawed
20th May 2017 / 2:15 pm / Last updated: 20th May 2017
Despite living in India for 37 years and being a citizen of India since 2002, Jean Drèze had to write a letter in 2016 to clarify his citizenship position to those running a smear campaign against him. “According to the leaflet mentioned earlier, I am a “foreign agent” (videshi dalal). In fact, I am an Indian citizen and I have spent more time in India than many of those who were distributing this leaflet yesterday. I love this country, where I have friends from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. In thirty-seven years of living in India, I have not faced hostility even once – until yesterday“, wrote Drèze in a letter to Catch News. One year later false information is still being shared about his nationality.
Jean Drèze is a Belgian-born Indian development economist and activist. His work includes areas of hunger, famine, gender inequality, child health and education, and the NREGA. He was a former member of UPA’s National Advisory Council for two terms. But the reason he is a target of a recent organised campaign is because he is the husband of the activist Bela Bhatia. DM Awasthi, DG Naxal Ops Chattissgarh, told the press on May 18th that Podiyam Panda, who’s the former sarpanch of Chintagufa, had stated that Nandini Sundar and Bela Bhatia had met Naxal Commanders. It has been alleged that Panda was illegally detained by Chattissgarh police since May 3rd and that Panda’s statements are a forced confession. It is also being alleged that Panda is being targeted for his role in protecting human rights of the villages around Chintagufa.
In a post truth world, many struggle with the concept of “facts”. Additionally, with the wave of nationalism, some also struggle with the concept of citizenship. They routinely call Indian citizens as Pakistanis and find it difficult accept foreign born Indians as Indian nationals. Citizenship however is not something open to debate. It is not a topic where there can be a difference of opinion. The passport is a proof. Like it or not, Drèze’s Indian citizenship is a fact. And as Moynihan, a US senator famously said, “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts”
Drèze is an Indian national since 2002. When asked recently in an interview, how did it feel to give up his birth citizenship, Drèze had replied, “It was one of the happiest days of my life.” To the question, if India had offered dual citizenships, would his decision have been any different, he responded, “I don’t know. All I can say is that if the facility were offered to me today, I would decline. One citizenship seems enough.”
In the last few days, several tweets have made a false claim about Drèze’s nationality and alleged that a foreign national was a member of the National Advisory council under UPA. This tweet by Shefali Vaidya, a columnist at Swarajya was retweeted over 1200 times at the time of writing this article: “Jean Drèze, a Belgian national was a member of Sonia Gandhi’s NAC for two terms, while wife Bela Bhatia allegedly was communing w Maoists!”
A similar incorrect claim about Drèze’s nationality was also made by the film maker, Vivek Agnihotri, who called him a French national.
The factual error in Vaidya’s tweet was pointed out by Sadanand Dhume, who tweeted “I’m no fan of Drèze’s ideas, but as a factual matter he took Indian citizenship over a decade ago. In 2002 if I’m not mistaken.”
“It’s a factual matter. I’m presuming that @ShefVaidya made an innocent mistake, and am merely bringing it to her attention“, tried Dhume one more time with no result.
A few others also pointed out the misinformation being spread but to no avail. Twitter user, Paresh @hiparesh highlighted that a false statement gets 1000+ retweets while a statement correcting it gets only one. While Vaidya engaged with another user, @sandeeproy1 by asserting there are no rumours in her claim, she ignored repeated attempts by Dhume and others for a correction of the obvious factual inaccuracy in her tweet. She also threatened legal action against @sandeeproy1 for using the word “insinuation” in his tweet.
Finally Dhume expressed his disappointment with his tweet, “We all make mistakes. But telling that @ShefVaidya won’t correct the record even after I pointed out that Jean Drèze is an Indian national.”
Disagreement with Drèze and his worldview can surely be voiced without making fabricated claims about his nationality. An obvious lie has been widely shared even by those who know it is incorrect but don’t seem to have a problem with it. In a world of alternative facts, this is not even seen as unusual. But Alt News believes that falsehoods and fake news must be countered each and every time. One day it will make a difference.
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Jeep at farmers' protest is NOT Mercedes Benz worth Rs 1.5 crore - Alt News
Mohammed Zubair
28th December 2020 / 7:42 pm / Last updated: 28th December 2020
Around December 23, an image of a jeep surrounded by Sikh men in the ongoing farmers’ protest was shared on social media. The jeep has the logo of Mercedes Benz. Several social media users claimed that the car is Mercedes Benz G-class that costs over Rs 1.5 crores. They questioned the financial status of farmers protesting at Singhu border.
The image was shared by Twitter user @nishant_india who is followed by Prime Minster Narendra Modi. It was also posted by Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation chairman Kanchan Gupta, columnist Kartikeya Tanna, Twitter user @TrulyMonica and Sneha Singhvi (archived links 1, 2,3,4 and 5).
देश के गरीब किसान की सस्ती जीप pic.twitter.com/EXiKSVlAWb
— Nishant (@nishant_india) December 23, 2020
If only my father did not have to pay Income Tax all his life on what he earned from his salaried job. If only journalism was a tax-free trade and I did not have to pay Income Tax. If only @nandinizg did not have to part with massive sums of money as Income Tax in her tech job… pic.twitter.com/4JgsjoBDOz
— Kanchan Gupta (@KanchanGupta) December 23, 2020
Facebook page ‘I Support Narendra Modi’ that has over 15 million followers posted the screenshot of a tweet by @nishant_india. After gaining over 54,000 likes, the post was deleted.
The viral image has been shared with various captions. However, the Hindi caption written by Twitter user @nishant_india and Gagan Ajmani is the most widely used message on both Twitter and Facebook. It sarcastically says, “Nation’s poor farmer’s affordable jeep.” (Translated from देश के गरीब किसान की सस्ती जीप)
On December 22, Twitter user @iPardeepDhiman had posted the viral image. He shared the Instagram profile of the owner of the car Manpreet Singh with Alt News. Singh had posted the viral image on December 19.
We found multiple images of the identical jeep on Singh’s Instagram account. In one of the images, the registration number of the vehicle — PB 12Z 8282 — can be seen.
We looked up the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways portal Vahan to find the RTO details of the car.
The vehicle in question is SUV Gurkha by Force Motors. According to Force Gurkha website, the car’s version is 2.6/4×2 which has two models that cost between Rs 9.75 to Rs 10 lakhs.
In 2017, CNN News18 reported that Color Glo Kerala, a car modifier, revamped Force Gurkha to look like a Mercedes G Wagen. As per CNN, the cost of modification was Rs 8.5 lakhs at the time.
Alt News spoke with Manpreet Singh, a resident of Anandpur. He is an entrepreneur and his family members are farmers. “I have been visiting the morcha to demonstrate my solidarity with the farmers since December 5. People from all walks of life are present at the border to support the farmers. The car in the viral image is mine. It is a replica of the Mercedes-Benz G Wagon. I have nothing to hide. I’m a regular taxpayer. It’s quite disheartening to see how my car’s photo is being used to discredit the farmers’ protest. The online attacks based on the viral image have not impacted my spirit to support the farmers’ protests.”
Thus, an image of modified Force Motors’ Gurkha surrounded by Sikh men during farmers’ protest was used to portray that the protesters are ‘rich’ thus the movement is not legitimate. Several attempts have been made in the past as well to show that protestors at Singhu border are not poor. The narrative that only the poor are capable of protests is a common tactic used to discredit any citizen movement. Recently, right-wing website OpIndia published an elaborate piece on how one of the protesters is a model and filmmaker who has pictures with luxury cars and has also travelled abroad. The man is indeed a filmmaker who’s been camping at Singhu border in solidarity with farmers. In several interviews, he said that he’s also taking aerial footage of the agitation.
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In Jharkhand, Dalit man allegedly beaten to death by police for sprinkling colour on a chowkidar during Holi - Alt News
Pratik Sinha
16th March 2017 / 12:22 am
A Dalit man was allegedly beaten to death by police on the festival of Holi after a chowkidar took exception to being sprinkled with colour and informed the local police station. This incident happened in the range of Satgawan Police Station in Koderama district of Jharkhand. The blood clot injuries on the victim Pradeep Chaudhary’s body are indicators of the heavy beating that he received. This incident was reported by Hindi media outlets such as Dainik Bhaskar, Prabhat Khabar etc. The victim was 55 years of age and used to graze cattle as a profession. He is survived by his wife and six kids.
In the video below, Jashna Devi, the wife of the victim narrates how the incident happened.
Jashna Devi claims that there was an altercation with a chowkidar when members of the Dalit Samaj were playing Holi and some colour was sprinkled on the chowkidar. The chowkidar took offence to being sprinkled with colour and contacted the local police station. When the police arrived, most of the people scattered away but the victim did not in time. He was first beaten up by the police on the spot and he fell down and hit his head which led to him losing consciousness. According to Jashna Devi, the police took him to the hospital, got him treated, took him back to the police station and thrashed him again.
A report by a website called PalPalIndia also states that Jashna Devi went to the police station the same evening that her husband was arrested to request the police-incharge to let him go. She was accompanied by her relative Ashwini Chaudhary. However, according to Jashna Devi, the police used a caste-based slur against them and treated them roughly and asked them to go away. The next day, the victim came home on a relative’s motorbike. However, his condition kept deteriorating and he was first taken to the local Satgawan hospital and then to the Koderma district hospital. Later, when he was being shifted to Ranchi hospital, he succumbed to his injuries on the way.
Prabhat Khabar has reported that Jashna Devi tried approaching the nearest SC/ST police station and submitted an application demanding an enquiry into the death of her husband. However, the police refused accept her application. The SP on the other hand has reportedly stated that there will be an enquiry into this incident.
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Jilted boyfriend kills woman, incident given false communal shade online - Alt News
Kalim Ahmed
4th May 2022 / 6:43 pm / Last updated: 6th May 2022
A 30-second long video clip where a youth can be seen stabbing a young woman is widely being shared with the claim that in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, a Muslim boy stabbed a Hindu girl in public because she refused to convert to Islam. It is being shared as a case of “love jihad”, a conspiracy theory which claims that Muslim men are trained to trap women of other faiths to convert them to Islam.
In the video, we can hear bystanders speaking to the assailant in Bangla:
Assailant: “She had trapped me, she was in love with someone else and was two-timing with me.”
Bystander: “So you will stab her?”
Assailant: “She was two-timing with me… I will call her father and tell him about it…”
Bystander: “Are you drunk?”
[The body moves but the assailant continues to stab.]
The video has been shared on Twitter by one @MrSinha_
The clip has been shared or quote-tweeted with the same claim by several users such as @KapilMishra_IND, @ByRakeshSimha, @rajivtuli69 and various others.
We performed a keyword search and came across various news reports about the incident. According to The Telegraph, on the evening of May 2, Sutapa Chowdhury, 21, a student of Berhampore Girls’ College was stabbed to death by a young man. The assailant not only stabbed the young woman but also slit her throat. He also threatened to open fire a gun when onlookers tried to stop him. The assailant later fled the crime scene and bystanders took the girl to a hospital where she was declared dead.
According to The Indian Express, Sutapa Chowdhury, a third-year student at Berhampore Girls’ College, was stabbed to death by her alleged ex-boyfriend, Sushanta Chowdhury, 22. Both the accused and the victim are from the Malda district.
Speaking to The Indian Express, the police said, “The arrested accused has confessed. Preliminary investigation indicates that the accused had been in a relationship with the victim. However, she ended the relationship and moved to Behrampore for her studies. Several issues cropped up between them thereafter and efforts were made to resolve these with the help of local politicians. The accused was carrying a knife and a dummy gun”.
A tweet by Murshidabad Police also confirms the identity of the young man as Susanta Chowdhury. The tweet was later removed by Twitter as it contained the Aadhaar details of the accused, which violates Twitter’s privacy policy.
Alt News reached out to the Superintendent of Police, K. Sabari Rajkumar, who told us, “They were in a relationship. They had a break-up that turned sour and the guy stabbed the girl. They are both adults. The name of the guy is Susanta Chowdhury, he’s not Muslim.”
“Within three hours of this incident, we arrested him. He is now in our custody. We have also filed two FIRs against people spreading misinformation. Copy of the FIRs is with the Murshidabad cyber police,” he further added.
To summarise, a jilted boyfriend murdered a young woman and there is no communal angle to the incident. Both hail from the same community.
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J&K police calls out media reports about terror attack on Shopian police station - Alt News
Jignesh Patel
18th February 2019 / 8:25 pm / Last updated: 18th February 2019
Soon after the news about Pulwama terror attack broke out, political parties issued statements strongly condemning the attack on CRPF convoy which led to the martyrdom of 44 CRPF personnel. Sameed Kakroo, Jammu Bureau chief of Greater Kashmir tweeted a screenshot of one such press release statement issued by J&K BJP.
While the entire nations mourns the martyrdom of #CRPF soldiers in Awantipora, the former deputy CM @KavinderGupta from @BJP4JnK condoles “death of CRPF soldiers in a police post of Shopian”. Wow. Incompetency at its peak. @OmarAbdullah @MehboobaMufti @INCIndia @jkpdp pic.twitter.com/pr3IumU77t
— Sameed Kakroo (@sameedkakroo) February 14, 2019
The press release received by the editor at 6:21 pm on February 14, 2019 stated, “I strongly condemn the attack on the police post in Shopian and condole the deaths of 12 CRP personnel in the duty.” Kakroo pointed out BJP’s faux pas, “While the entire nations mourns the martyrdom of #CRPF soldiers in Awantipora, the former deputy CM @KavinderGupta from @BJP4JnK condoles “death of CRPF soldiers in a police post of Shopian”. Wow. Incompetency at its peak”. It may be emphasised here that no media reports had emerged about such an incident in Shopian district up until this point.
At 9:34 pm on February 14, Times Now broadcast ‘breaking news’ on The Newshour Debate about a terrorist attack on a police station located in Shopian district, Jammu and Kashmir. “As we are talking, if you set aside your politics, then, I want to inform you that terrorists have attacked a police station in Shopian. That’s the latest coming in from there. What do we see in our studio, we see once again warring politicians. Sohail joins me on the phone-line.”, said Times Now anchor Navika Kumar at 34:00 mins in the video posted below.
The reporter on the phone-line said, “We have talked about this incident, this has happened in Keegam area of Shopian where a grenade was lobbed on the police station followed by firing. But the police personnel who were deployed at the police station retaliated back and the area is under cordon. Meanwhile, the security forces have also launched coordinated search operations in 15 villages of Pulwama and this is being seen in the backdrop of the attack that took place today on the National Highway 44 in Awantipora area of Kashmir valley.”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xkj4bRLfAZc
A senior police official of the Shopian district called out the “fake news” propagated by Times Now. “Kindly avoid whatsapp driven fake news cycle @TimesNow like the attack on Keegam PP in Shopian. No such attack took place. @JmuKmrPolice @KashmirPolice”,tweeted the Senior Superintendent of Police Sandeep Chaudhary.
Kindly avoid whatsapp driven fake news cycle @TimesNow like the attack on Keegam PP in Shopian. No such attack took place. @JmuKmrPolice @KashmirPolice pic.twitter.com/L1yGP7V3wI
— Sandeep Chaudhary IPS (@Sandeep_IPS_JKP) February 14, 2019
In a reply to Chaudhary, Times Now clarified with a tweet saying that the news report was unverified and the error is regretted. However, it may be noted that the broadcast video with the misinformation has not been deleted yet.
CORRIGENDUM: This is with regard to an unverified news report of an attack on a police station in Shopian Thursday night. The error is regretted. @TimesNow
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) February 15, 2019
Earlier, the channel had issued a clarification on Twitter without referring to their misreport.
CLARIFICATION | Official sources deny attack on police station in Shopian, J&K pic.twitter.com/rPYKVelTfo
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) February 14, 2019
News Nation too reported, “Amid growing rage over Pulwama blast, there are reports of another terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district.”
It may be noted that News Nation has not issued a clarification yet.
Amid growing rage over #PulwamaBlast, there are reports of another terror attack in #JammuAndKashmir‘s #shopian district#CRPFattack #CRPFConvoy #CRPFJawans #PulawamaTerrorAttack #KashmirTerrorAttack https://t.co/o5XdrMj4vg
— News Nation (@NewsNationTV) February 14, 2019
At 9:49 pm, ABP News also reported that militants had attacked the ‘Keegam police station.’
Militants fire at Keegam police station in South Kashmir’s Shopian. Alert cops retaliate, area put under cordon.https://t.co/DklVA2kRqn
— ABP News (@abpnewstv) February 14, 2019
Media outlets put out the news story without due diligence. As it turned out, the news report about a terrorist attack on a police station in Shopian district was called out by Jammu and Kashmir police. While Times Now has issued a clarification, News Nation and ABP are yet to acknowledge their error.
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.
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J&K Police pulls up Madhu Kishwar for sharing fake news - Alt News
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29th May 2018 / 12:40 pm / Last updated: 10th July 2018
“Shocked to learn from @neelakantha that @spvaid –the DG of J&K actually suspended the SP who killed Burhan wani in an encounter–all because @MehboobaMufti was upset at killing of Burhan. A DG playing doormat to jehadi politicians– Is this what IPS training is all about?”. Madhu Kishwar is back with a controversial tweet. This time it is fake news about the suspension of a SP by Shesh Paul Vaid, Director General of Police of Jammu and Kashmir. Kishwar who has made a name for herself by circulating unverified information on Twitter, attributed the source of this misinformation to Sushil Pandit who goes by the twitter handle @neelakantha. In her familiar spiteful style, she not only called Chief Minster Mahbooba Mufti a jihadi politician but also launched a personal attack on DG Vaid, accusing him of playing doormat to her.
7. Shocked to learn from @neelakantha that @spvaid –the DG of J&K actually suspended the SP who killed Burhan wani in an encounter–all because @MehboobaMufti was upset at killing of Burhan. A DG playing doormat to jehadi politicians– Is this what IPS training is all about?
— MadhuPurnima Kishwar (@madhukishwar) May 28, 2018
Jammu & Kashmir Police denied the suspension of the SP in a tweet saying they were more than shocked to read the concocted information shared by Madhu Kishwar.
More than shocked to read concoted information being shared by a senior journalist like you @madhukishwar .No SP has been suspended.Kindly check before sharing such information. https://t.co/IJDQI691YX
— J&K Police (@JmuKmrPolice) May 28, 2018
Like Madhu Kishwar, Sushil Pandit has also been in the news recently for sharing unverified information. Last week Jammu and Kashmir Police registered a case against him for tweeting false information about a militant attack on the CRPF and killing of five personnel at Pampore.
Pandit who is the owner of Hive Communications and has worked with BJP on their communication strategy, is regularly featured on prime time debates on TV. He is also the author of the Sunday Guardian article on Kathua rape case that attracted a massive outrage. Based on a conspiracy theory about Kathua rape and murder, Sunday Guardian carried an entire article and claimed in a disclaimer that it was a pure concoction based on fiction.
In this case however, a review of Pandit’s timeline did not show any tweet on DGP Vaid ordering the arrest of the SP involved in Burhan Wani encounter. It is not clear if he actually shared this false information with Kishwar and if so how.
After being called out by the police for spreading misinformation, Kishwar went into a defensive mode engaging in whataboutery. She has not yet deleted her tweet or expressed regret about it.
In that very tweet, I named the source of my information, namely very responsible & credible person–Sushil Pandit @neelakantha of @RootsInKashmir . I don’t think he would give me false information. Let him clarify the position https://t.co/a56lbG79MX
— MadhuPurnima Kishwar (@madhukishwar) May 29, 2018
Awesome alacrity of #BreakUpIndiaGang .I just got a call from @TheQuint reporter about @JmuKmrPolice questioning my tweet. They don’t care about threats to patriotic Kashmiris. No mention of @Ibne_Sena being hounded. But #PaidMedia all set 2 start bashing me for alleged fake news
— MadhuPurnima Kishwar (@madhukishwar) May 29, 2018
With Madhu Kishwar quoting Sushil Pandit, it is not so shocking that her “shocking” piece of news has turned out to be a malicious rumor.
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J&K Police, Tourism Dept rebut Times of India report of attack on tourists by stone pelters - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
3rd April 2018 / 5:55 pm / Last updated: 3rd April 2018
On April 3, Times of India reported that tourists in Jammu & Kashmir are facing the wrath of stone pelters. The report states that there has been a spate of attacks on tourists in the state a day after 12 terrorists were killed in an army operation in the state in which four civilians also lost their lives.
According to the article, two buses carrying tourists from Indonesia were pelted with stones near the Dal lake in Srinagar. In another incident, two women from Abu Dhabi were attacked at the Srinagar airport and suffered head injuries due to which they had to be hospitalised. The report mentions that the third incident of attack on tourists took place at Awantipora in the Pulwama district of South Kashmir in which two women from U.P were injured after stone pelters targeted the bus in which they were travelling.
The information put out by Times of India however was rebutted by J&K police through an official statement which is posted below:
Apropos a news item published in The Times of India news paper with byline of Sh Salim Pandith, regarding tourists being injured in stone pelting at Dalgate area of Srinagar city and Awantipora. As per District police authorities Srinagar no such incident of stone pelting took place in that area yesterday as reported by the correspondent. Police investigation have also shown that no injuries to any body were reported from area. However two tourist got minor injuries on April 1.They were given first aid and discharged immediately.There has been no intended or designed attack on any Tourist. It was because the vehicles came in middle an area where pelting was going on. Media fraternity is requested to kindly verify such reports before publishing.
News agency ANI also tweeted a portion of the above press release.
Apropos news item regarding tourists being injured in stone pelting, as per Police no such incident of stone pelting took place. 2 tourist got minor injuries on Apr 1 as vehicles came in area where pelting was going on.There has been no designed attack on any tourist: J&K Police
— ANI (@ANI) April 3, 2018
The J&K police also retweeted a tweet by Ahmed Ali Fayyaz who is a journalist based in J&K. Fayyaz reported that no such incident had taken place in Srinagar, adding that in Awantipora, a stone had been pelted on a bus and two women from U.P had sustained minor injuries.
Alt News also contacted the Department of Tourism, Jammu & Kashmir which confirmed that no attack had taken place on Indonesian tourists at Dal Lake, adding that it is the safest area for tourists and that no such incident has ever taken place.
Update
After questions were raised over the authenticity of the report, Times of India has reiterated that its stands by the report by its correspondent from J&K. It also published another report which it said was cross-checked and re-verified.
Thank you @OmarAbdullah for having faith in @timesofindia. We stand by our reporter Saleem Pandit’s news report about stone-pelting attacks on tourist vehicles in Kashmir. Here is the cross-checked and re-verified report. Will you please retweet this now? https://t.co/rCiahhptQ1https://t.co/43clOcTS5H
— Aarti Tikoo Singh (@AartiTikoo) April 3, 2018
(The article has been updated by Alt News following the response by Times of India)
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.
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JNU Violence: ABVP, BJP office-bearers falsely claim SFI activist 'faked' injuries - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri & Pratik Sinha
7th January 2020 / 7:14 pm / Last updated: 8th January 2020
On January 7, Ashish Chauhan, national secretary of RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), tweeted photographs of Soori Krishnan, an activist with CPI’s student wing Students’ Federation of India (SFI). Chauhan suggested that Krishnan faked sustaining injuries during violence in JNU on January 5-6. In two of the photographs, Krishnan can be seen with bandages on his head and both arms which are absent in the third image.
Comedy show of the left comrades
SFI leader Soori from JNU after being ”brutally injured” in Delhi
Seen completely in high spirits while welcomed with garlands in Trivandrum within 24 hours.#TukdeTukdeGang #JNUHiddenTruth #JNUViolence pic.twitter.com/8LqoiycnPY
— Ashish Chauhan (@AshishSainram) January 7, 2020
Chauhan’s tweet which has over 4,000 retweets reads, “Comedy show of the left comrades SFI leader Soori from JNU after being ”brutally injured” in Delhi Seen completely in high spirits while welcomed with garlands in Trivandrum within 24 hours.”
Several others also claimed that Soori Krishnan faked his wounds including BJP MP Pratap Simha. He wrote in Kannada, “ABVPಯವರು ಹೊಡೆದರು ಎಂದು ಮೈತುಂಬ ಬ್ಯಾಂಡೇಜ್ ಕಟ್ಟಿಕೊಂಡವನ ಗಾಯಗಳು ಒಂದೇ ದಿನದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಯ.”
State in-charge of BJP Odisha IT and social media Prabin Padhy tweeted that Krishnan’s “stitches were removed & wounds were healed in 24 hrs.”
Meet #JNU #SFI leader #Soori admitted to hospital 4 ‘serious injuries’. From ICU, flew to Kerala, landed in Trivandrum in 24hrs. His stitches were removed & wounds were healed in 24 hrs🤔
Total Bollywood👏🤪
(*Got from social media)@amitmalviya @ABVPVoice @abvpjnu @ABVPDelhi pic.twitter.com/sEC6cnTjiV
— Prabin Padhy (@prabinkp) January 7, 2020
Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit made similar allegations.
Yesterday JNU SFI leader Soori was admitted to hospital with ‘serious injuries’. From ICU, he flew to Kerala, landed in Trivandrum in 24hrs. His stitches were removed…His wounds were healed in 24 hrs… magic of Marx !! #ShutdownJNUUniversity pic.twitter.com/gqC50OUQkt
— Ashoke Pandit (@ashokepandit) January 7, 2020
Pandit was earlier found retweeting a video which was shared with the false claim that Left parties in JNU attacked ABVP members when in fact the video showed an ABVP student assaulting a member of CPI (ML)-affiliated All India Students Association (AISA).
In a video statement shared with Alt News, Soori Krishnan shows his wounds thus debunking the false claim that his injuries were not genuine. He claimed, “I was attacked by eight ABVP goons in front of Periyar hostel in JNU. They beat me with iron rods and I am going to show you the injuries I have right now.” Krishnan showed four injuries on his head, two of which were given sutures. He also asserted that he hurt his arms. “I can move my left arm but my right arm has swelling and I have a severe contusion on my shoulder due to which I cannot lift my arm.” Krishnan further explained the absence of bandages on his head. “Because of the suture tins, they [doctors] said I don’t need to cover my head. I had the covering on my head initially because there was profuse bleeding. Once the bleeding stopped they asked me to not cover my head.”
The photo-montage below shows a close-up of Krishnan’s head injuries.
The SFI activist also shared a copy of his outpatient report from AIIMS where he was admitted on January 5. While the report mentions that the patient suffered no fractures, it lists several external injuries – swelling and tenderness on both forearms and laceration or deep cuts on occipital, frontal and left parietal regions of the head.
The photograph of Soori Krishnan circulating online to show that his wounds ‘healed’ within 24 hours was shot at Trivandrum airport. “There was a reception by left political parties DYFI and SFI,” he informed, adding that he visited Padmavati Medical Foundation in Kollam for further consultation. Dr Harikrishnan, orthopaedic surgeon treating Krishnan, told Alt News, “I have examined Soori Krishnan. He has severe contusions on his left forearm and right shoulder region. There is no fracture but we have restricted movement and he needs 2-3 weeks of medication. He also has mild scalp injuries which will heal in two weeks. But his forearms have severe swelling.”
SFI activist Soori Krishnan’s photographs are therefore circulating with the false claim that he pretended to be injured during JNU violence. Among those who propagated the misinformation was ABVP national organising secretary Ashish Chauhan who tweeted on January 7. However, quite ironically, ABVP leader Janhawi Ojha had posted a list of students injured during the JNU violence a day before. This included Krishnan’s name. Ojha wrote that 15 out of the 23 wounded were ABVP activists. Ojha was the ABVP presidential candidate for JNUSU 2016 elections.
Her January 6 Facebook post reads, “Out of the 23 students who were admitted to AIIMS after JNU violence, 15 were ABVP workers.” But Ojha’s list has only 20 names and none of the individuals was identified with their political affiliations, including Soori Krishnan. The list also features JNUSU president Aishee Ghosh.
In his video statement, Krishnan has categorically denied any association with ABVP.
SFI activist Soori Krishnan’s photographs were widely circulated on social media to give credence to the false claim that he faked his wounds. A majority of those who shared the untruth are visible supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party. A tweet by @excomradekerala drew close to 4,000 retweets.
“I am the Lord, your healer.” Exodus 15:26. Yesterday JNU SFI leader Soori was admitted to hospital with ‘serious injuries’. From ICU, he flew to Kerala, landed in Trivandrum in 24hrs. His stitches were removed…His wounds were healed in 24 hrs… pic.twitter.com/V4DXWssy2l
— Ex-Comrade ☭ (@excomradekerala) January 6, 2020
National vice president of BJYM Atul Kumar tweeted similar words.
Comedy show of the left comrades
SFI leader Soori from JNU after being ”brutally injured” in Delhi
Seen completely in high spirits while welcomed with garlands in Trivandrum within 24 hours.#TukdeTukdeGang@deveshkumarbjp pic.twitter.com/eQ5BkGEWOo
— Atul kumar (@AtulKumarBJP) January 7, 2020
A handle infamous for sharing misinformation, Political Kida, made a video out of Krishnan’s welcome at Trivandrum airport.
Hey @TheAcademy, why no Oscar for SFI’s Comrade Soori? pic.twitter.com/DALtl2Tgra
— Political Kida (@PoliticalKida) January 7, 2020
The other usual suspects were Vinita Hindustani, @pokershash and The Skin Doctor.
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JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh faked head injury? Screenshot of old broadcast shared with false claim - Alt News
Jignesh Patel & Pooja Chaudhuri
24th January 2020 / 9:36 pm / Last updated: 25th January 2020
On January 20, Twitter user Anil Jacob posted a screenshot of a TV9 Bharatvarsh broadcast featuring Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Aishe Ghosh. He claimed that injury marks on her forehead vanished “within a few days”. Aishe Ghosh was severely wounded when masked goons armed with sticks and rods attacked JNU campus on January 5. At the time, she was admitted to AIIMS trauma centre and the attack left her with 16 stitches on the head. The message posted along with the video implicitly suggests that Ghosh was never injured but pretended to be grievously wounded. The tweet has garnered more than 2,100 retweets so far.
Author Bhaavna Arora also tweeted the screengrab and quipped, “They say Doctors are God… don’t know about other doctors, Aishe Ghosh’s doctor is definitely God, only God can do such a miracle”. It has amassed over 2,700 retweets so far.
Another Facebook user shared the screenshot with a similar claim – Dipaka’s upcoming venture “Those 16 Stitches” – reads the message posted on January 14. At the time of writing this article, the post has garnered close to 1,800 shares.
Alt News also received verification requests on its official Andriod application.
A cursory look at the screenshot hints that the report was broadcast when the JNU administration announced partial roll-back of fees in mid-November 2019. At the bottom of the broadcast is a ticker that talks about the roll-back of the mess security deposit from Rs 12,000 to the earlier amount of Rs 5,500.
Furthermore, another ticker “फीस विवाद (fees controversy)” further hinted that the broadcast could be from November when the controversy was at its peak.
Taking this clue, Alt News performed a search on the Facebook page of TV9 Bharatvarsh with keywords, “फीस विवाद (fees controversy)” and found a November 19, 2019, article titled, “फीस विवाद को लेकर प्रेस कॉन्फ्रेंस में भड़के JNU छात्र संघ नेता. (JNU students leaders infuriate at the press conference over fees controversy -translated)”.
However, we were unable to trace the broadcast in question. Alt News contacted TV9 Bharatvarsh assignment desk with the above details including the timeline we wanted to be checked. In response to our query, the desk provided a link to a tweet which carried a portion of a November 19, 2019 broadcast.
जेएनयू स्टूडेंट्स की प्रेस ब्रीफिंग में हंगामा, मीडिया के सवालों पर भड़के JNU के स्टूडेंट्स. लगाए मीडिया बाहर जाओ के नारे. @ShubhankrMishra ( @upadhyayabhii ) pic.twitter.com/zTlMFLhsTM
— TV9 भारतवर्ष (@TV9Bharatvarsh) November 19, 2019
A screenshot of this broadcast was used to propagate misinformation about Ghosh. At 2:29 minutes in the video, one can spot the viral frame where the JNUSU president is seen. The broadcast talks about a scuffle between protesters and the media during a press conference held by JNUSU on November 19, 2019.
On November 18, the first day of the winter session, JNU students defied Section 144 and marched towards the parliament demanding a total roll-back of the hostel fee hike. About 100 students including Ghosh were detained by the police. A press conference was held by the students’ union the next day. Masked goons had attacked JNU campus on January 5, 2020, while the screenshot is of a TV9 Bharatvarsh broadcast from two months ago.
[Update: Bhaavna Arora’s tweet was added to this report on January 25, 2020]
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Video of scuffle between two Hindu families in Jodhpur viral with false communal spin - Alt News
Priyanka Jha
23rd September 2021 / 3:45 pm
A video of a group of people thrashing a bloodied man with sticks is being shared widely on social media. It has been claimed that Muslims “with no fear of the law or arrest” were behind the attack in Rajasthan. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has been targeted in the messages.
One Twitter user shared the visuals and wrote, “An innocent Hindu named Yogesh Jatav was beaten to death by Rashid and his associates in Rajasthan. A Hindu was lynched in a Congress-ruled state. The victim was Hindu and his killers were Muslims, so of course, the administration is silent.”
A verified Twitter user named Ramesh Solanki quote-tweeted a similar post, tagging several ministers of the Rajasthan government. The post mentioned that no arrests had been made even after five days of the incident.
Several people shared the clip on Facebook and Twitter claiming the perpetrators were Muslims. Alt News received several requests on its WhatsApp number to verify this video.
We performed a keyword search, which led us to a few media reports stating that the victim and the accused belonged to the same community. A September 19 Dainik Bhaskar story read, “Five people sustained injuries after a scuffle between two families at Khatik’s Mansagar Shivpuri neighbourhood in the Mahamandir Police Station area. Both the families have personal enmity which led to the clash.” It also contains a few images that resemble the scenes in the viral video.
It further states that Ajay, Kanchan, Shanti, Kailash, and Kamlesh were injured in the attack after they were beaten with sticks. Police arrived on the scene and arrested 10 individuals, including Manoharlal, Ravindra Dhichi, Bharat, Vishal, Santosh, Vikas, Ghanshyam, Devilal, Bhavani, and Pukhraj.
Patrika and Navbharat Times also covered the incident. Neither of the outlets mentioned any communal angle.
Furthermore, Patrika quoted SHO Lekhraj Sihag who stated, “A jagran was being held in the locality on Saturday night on the occasion of Anant Chaturdashi, where youth from the opposing party got into an argument that escalated to a fight. He left afterwards. On Sunday afternoon, seven or eight youths from one side arrived armed with swords, iron pipes, and rods. They attacked Ajay’s son Kailash Khatik, who was standing near Jhalra Bera. When his maternal uncle Kamlesh intervened, the attackers began thrashing him, during which he sustained injuries on his head and fell to the ground.”
Alt News reached out to Mahamandir Police Station, where an officer confirmed that there was no communal angle to the incident and the row broke over mutual enmity. They also confirmed that the claim being made on social media was completely false.
To sum it up, a video of a scuffle between two Hindu families was falsely shared as a Muslim mob thrashing a Hindu man.
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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Fact-check: Was India excluded from Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony? - Alt News
Kinjal
27th January 2021 / 3:54 pm
Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021. A number of well-known political and public figures attended the ceremony, including former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama.
A viral claim that India, unlike its neighbouring countries, did not receive an invitation to the inauguration was widespread on social media. Twitter user Rekha Meena’s tweet carrying the claim was liked 4,500 times and received 800 retweets.
USA में बाइडेन की शपथ ग्रहण मे भारत के सभी पड़ौसी देशों को निमंत्रण मिला!
लेकिन भारत को नहीं मिला ऐसा क्यों हुआ..??
— Rekha Meena (@Iamrekhameena) January 21, 2021
Facebook user Moolnivasi Priyanka made a similar post.
The claim is circulating widely across Twitter and Facebook.
The same message was also viral in November 2020 however in the name of former Indian PM Manmohan Singh. Alt News had found that the claim is false. According to a San Diego Union Tribune story, no foreign leader had been invited for Barack Obama’s oath-taking ceremony in 2009. The report quoted official sources who said that foreign leaders are not usually called for the event due to security concerns and the presence of large crowds. However, the ambassadors of other nations are invited.
A subsequent keyword search on Twitter led us to a tweet by Prasar Bharati News Service on January 20, 2021. It stated that Indian ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu was in attendance at the inauguration. He also tweeted about this himself.
Pleasure to attend the historic ceremony ! https://t.co/TweqATUBJV
— Taranjit Singh Sandhu (@SandhuTaranjitS) January 20, 2021
Apart from India, Ambassadors of Pakistan and Taiwan were also invited.
The Joint Committee on Inaugural Ceremony (JCCIC), responsible for organizing the function, had issued special guidelines in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the JCCIC, Congress members were allowed to bring only one guest with them this year. The Committee had also appealed to the American public to watch the inauguration from home.
The false claim that India was invited to Joe Biden’s inauguration was viral when, in fact, most foreign leaders are not invited to the ceremony. Furthermore, Indian Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu did attend the inauguration.
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.
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Journalism: The News Minute's coverage of Paresh Mesta incident - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
23rd December 2017 / 2:10 pm
Communal violence erupted in Uttara Kanada district of Karnataka in the first week of December after the body of Paresh Mesta was found floating on a lake in Honnavar town of the district. The region had been volatile for a week following clashes between members of two communities. Mesta’s body was recovered on December 8. BJP MP from Karnataka Shobha Karandlaje put out a statement the next day alleging Mesta had been brutally murdered by ‘jehadi elements’ and accusing the police of a cover up.
Congress support to PFI jihadis even when hindu karyakartas like Paresh Mesta are being hacked & burnt to death has given these goons the audacity to freely function w/o the fear of law and order.This will continue till Cong n @siddaramaiah are at the helm.
— Shobha Karandlaje (@ShobhaBJP) December 10, 2017
India Today gave prominent coverage to this news the very next day and reiterated the BJP MP’s claim, putting out gory details of how Mesta had been subjected to ‘torture’.
India Today did not bother to even verify the information and carried a detailed report on the basis of a tweet by a member of the ruling party. A sensitive issue was sensationalised by spreading false and provocative information. The channel’s conduct is representative of the tendency of mainstream media to resort to ‘impactful’ news, regardless of accuracy. India Today later issued a clarification in an article written by its anchor Shiv Aroor which was met with a stinging rebuttal by journalist Prem Panicker. Alt News had reported how attempts were being made to spread rumours of Mesta’s death and the Karnataka police had issued a strict warning.
The News Minute is one media organisation that stood out with its accurate and detailed coverage of the incident. The portal reported the news of Paresh Mesta’s death with utmost responsibility. The News Minute gave a detailed account of the communal violence in Uttara Kanada district, carrying daily reports on the same. When rumours of Paresh Mesta’s brutalisation were circulating on social media following the BJP MP’s allegation, The News Minute was among the first to publish an article which put out the response given by the Forensic Sciences Department which rubbished the rumours of torture.
Following the outbreak of violence in Uttara Kanada, The News Minute did a series of articles on the situation as it developed over the next few days.
On December 9, The News Minute reported on Mesta’s body being found in a lake in Honnavar town.
On December 11, the website reported that violence had engulfed the district after Hindutva outfits staged protests.
The very same day, The News Minute published an important report that laid to rest the rumours floating about Mesta’s alleged torture. The article detailed the response given by the Forensic Sciences Department which rubbished accusations of torture.
The News Minute was incessant in its coverage of the unrest, with another story on December 12 which reported on the raging violence in the region.
The next day on December 13, the website carried a report on the statement given by Paresh Mesta’s father that Mesta was not a member of any political party, as claimed by the BJP. The very same day, The News Minute also reported that the case had been handed over by the Karnataka police to the CBI.
The News Minute’s reportage was in stark contrast to the haste shown by India Today in broadcasting a story it did not deign to verify. At a time when eyeballs and click-baits determine the agenda for many mainstream news organisations, The News Minute’s responsible and detailed coverage of a sensitive issue is a silver lining.
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.
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Journalism student receives threat calls for being a BJP critic; Caller threatens to kill her Muslim friends - Alt News
Pratik Sinha
15th March 2017 / 2:59 am / Last updated: 15th March 2017
Sushmita Sinha, a journalism student, has published a post on her Facebook account in which she narrates how she received multiple threat calls from a person called Anish Jha post Uttar Pradesh Elections. She also attached a recording of the phone call in her Facebook post in which the person can be heard mouthing expletives.
When we spoke to Sushmita regarding this issue, she sent across two audio recordings and a bunch of screenshots to show how she was being harassed and threatened by this person who was repeatedly calling her from different numbers and abusing her. First she received SMSes from 9504441148 which according to her is the personal number of Anish Jha. When she blocked that number, he repeatedly called her from two other numbers 8507590483 and 7004116537.
She told us that she has known Anish Jha for over 3 years while she was in Patna and before she came to Delhi. He apparently used to work for Sony India while she knew him and now works in a shop. She stated that she appreciates certain initiatives of AAP and also likes to express her views on Facebook which are usually critical of BJP. She stated that Anish had an issue with her political views and would message her regarding the same. At some point of time, she had blocked him on Facebook. However, post UP elections, he first started messaging her via SMS and then called her repeatedly from the aforementioned numbers. In the calls, besides using the most abusive language, she stated that caller also threatened to kill her friends Shahbaz Mallick and Ayan Younus.
In the above calls, between many vile abuses, the caller threatens to come to Delhi on either 1st May or 6th May and threatens to kill a friend of hers namely Ayan Yunus. Here’s a screenshot of the SMSes she received from the 9504441148 number before she blocked the said number. The first SMS received is at 10:23 on 11th March which coincides with the results of UP Elections. By that time, BJP had moved ahead in the race and looked set to capture Uttar Pradesh.
Here are two more screenshots which show the multiple times she was called from the numbers 8507590483 and 7004116537.
She told us that she will file a police complaint if the situation demanded it.
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Journalist Arfa Khanum's speech on CAA shared with distorted interpretation by BJP office-bearers - Alt News
Alt News Desk
27th January 2020 / 8:55 pm / Last updated: 3rd February 2020
“The Islamists want CAA protests to be ‘inclusive’ only till the time you, the non Muslims, start accepting their religious identity, beliefs and supremacist slogans as gospel,” tweeted BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya while sharing a video of journalist Arfa Khanum.
The Islamists want CAA protests to be ‘inclusive’ only till the time you, the non Muslims, start accepting their religious identity, beliefs and supremacist slogans as gospel… Long live the dream of ‘Ghazwae-Hind’! pic.twitter.com/va564eghL8
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) January 26, 2020
In the 42 second clip, Khanum can be heard saying, “A common opinion should be developed at least among the people here that until we become an ideal society where our religious identity, our religious beliefs and our slogans are accepted, we should carry out an inclusive protest. This protest is also taking us to a society where everybody will be included. So we aren’t compromising our ideology, I want to reiterate this. We are not compromising out ideology but changing our strategy.”
[Translated from: “यहाँ पर एक आम राय कम से कम जितने लोग बैठे हुए हैं, एक आम राय इसको लेके बने कि जब तक हम वो आइडियल सोसाइटी बन पाए जहां हमारी मज़हबी पहचानों, हमारी मज़हबी जो बिलीफ है, जो हमारे नारे हैं, उनको लेकर एक तरह का एक्सेप्टेन्स पैदा हो तब तक हम एक इंक्लूसिव प्रोटेस्ट करें और ये प्रोटेस्ट भी हमे उसी सोसाइटी की तरह ले जा रहे हैं जहां हम सबको शामिल करेंगे। तो हम हमारी जो आइडियोलॉजी है उससे कोम्प्रोमाईज़ नहीं कर रहे हैं, आई वांट टू रीइटरेट यहाँ हम हमारी आइडियोलॉजी से कोम्प्रोमाईज़ नहीं कर रहे है, हम अपनी स्ट्रेटेजी बदल रहे हैं।]
The video was also tweeted by BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra who took it up a notch and claimed that Khanum disclosed the strategy to develop an ‘Islamic Caliphate’. “Hindus will be required only till the time an Islamic society is not created. (हिंदुओं की आवश्यकता केवल “तब तक” ही है जब तक इस्लामिक Society का निर्माण न हो जाए),” wrote Patra.
दोस्तों ये “Calipahate ख़ातून” कौन है?
ख़ैर जो भी है ..इन्होंने Islamic Caliphate बनाने का Strategy की खुलासा की है-
१)हिंदुओं की आवश्यकता केवल “तब तक” ही है जब तक इस्लामिक Society का निर्माण न हो जाए
२)हमारे नारे भी सभी को मान्य होगा- ला इल्लाह इल्लल्लाह ..सभी के लिए
WAKE UP! pic.twitter.com/B2QjCGrE2Y
— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) January 26, 2020
Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri also tweeted the video along similar lines – “Islamic Caliphate Chief strategist @khanumarfa explains how to fool people with words like ‘inclusive’ in order to establish an ideal Islamic Society in India.”
Strategist of #ShaheenBagh
Islamic Caliphate Chief strategist @khanumarfa explains how to fool people with words like ‘inclusive’ in order to establish an ideal Islamic Society in India.
Just write #SHAME in reply if you condemn her strategy. pic.twitter.com/a35CrYOkwZ
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) January 26, 2020
Other usual suspects were BJP Mahila Morcha’s Priti Gandhi, BJP politician Major Surendra Poonia, BJP spokesperson Suresh Nakhua, BJP supporter Shubhrashtha, Pakistani-Canadian author Tarek Fatah, Manushi founder Madhu Kishwar, lawyer Prashant Patel Umaro, Swarajya columnist Shefali Vaidya, former Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai, former Shiv Sena member Ramesh Solanki and former MyNation editor Abhijit Majumdar. Many of them reposted the video first tweeted by @EthnicLinkGuru.
The complete speech delivered by journalist Arfa Khanum at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was uploaded by The Wire on January 24, 2020. It is titled as, “The language of anti-CAA movement shouldn’t be Muslim but secular.” Khanum is a senior editor at The Wire.
Nearly half-way into her speech, the journalist congratulates the women of AMU who shaped the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). At 14:42, Khanum says, “However, it is important to understand how we want to protest.” She expresses solidarity with those who feel that their Muslimness is being attacked however urges the audience that the protests need to have an ‘inclusive’ shape and should not turn into a ‘Muslim-only’ agitation.
“If only Muslims protest in this country. If only 20 crore people protest, will the rest of the 100 crore want to be a part if you raise religious slogans? …What I want to say is make the protests more inclusive…You are a Muslim, there are no doubts about that and I have no objection to accepting the fact that you are being attacked. But understand that these protests are for India’s secularism and its Constitution,” she says.
The part of her speech that has been clipped and presented on social media starts from 17:15 minutes. In fact, this portion, even when heard independently, does not translate to Khanum promoting the establishment of an ‘Islamic Caliphate/ society’. “This protest is also taking us to a society where everybody will be included. So we aren’t compromising our ideology, I want to reiterate this. We are not compromising out ideology but changing our strategy,” she states. Here, the word ‘strategy’ implies adhering to a form of protest where religious slogans are shunned and a secular movement is embraced.
“On January 12th, I was invited to AMU to speak on a program on the CAA. Activist Medha Patkar, historian Prof Irfan Habib, and student activist Ayesha Renne were my co-panellists. Many students were insisting that they wanted to protest as Muslims because the attack is on their Muslim identity. To counter that, I argued that although in an ideal society, everyone should be welcome to join the protests with their own beliefs and slogans, including religious ones if they feel motivated by them, we are far from being an ideal society, and this is a larger fight to save the Indian Constitution and its secular character. Hence, we should allow only secular slogans in the protests. Since these protests should eventually take us toward a society that is truly inclusive, the protests too should be inclusive,” said Khanum speaking with Alt News.
The journalist has expressed similar views in the past as well. In a December 30 tweet thread, she wrote, “While it’s perfectly fine for Muslims to draw strength from their religious beliefs, it’ll end up alienating a lot of non-Muslim allies…we live in an extremely polarised polity that runs high on propaganda. Here optics matter. Religious slogans on secular protests are bad optics.”
2-Ideally,all pro-constitution ppl shud join protests with whichever beliefs/slogans they want.
AllahuAkbar/JaiShriRam/JoBoleSoNihal
But we live in an extremely polarised polity that runs high on propaganda.
Here optics matter.
Religious slogans on secular protests is bad optics.
— Arfa Khanum Sherwani (@khanumarfa) December 30, 2019
That Khanum was advocating for inclusive and secular protests was also explained by journalist Marya Shakil.
Arfa was advocating for a broad-based, inclusive and secular character of the protests while addressing the students of AMU. Listen to her full speech- she says it clearly that an ideal society is tolerant to all beliefs. @khanumarfa https://t.co/O1g2swTSpE
— Marya Shakil (@maryashakil) January 26, 2020
A speech delivered by Arfa Khanum at Aligarh Muslim University was clipped and misrepresented on social media by BJP officer-bearers and supporters of the party. They claimed that the journalist was promoting the establishment of Islamic society and urging protesters to maintain a pretence of support to non-Muslims until such a society is created. However, Khanum was stating the complete opposite. She urged protesters to not use religious slogans to maintain the secular character of the movement.
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Video falsely viral as journalist 'grooming' farmers for being on camera - Alt News
Kalim Ahmed
7th September 2021 / 4:24 pm
A 10-second video clip of a journalist addressing her cameraperson while surrounded by farmers at Muzaffarnagar is being shared on social media. It has been claimed that she told the cameraperson ‘teach everyone quickly’, suggesting that she was ‘preparing’ them for what to say on camera. BJP spokesperson Suresh Nakhua shared the video with a Hindi caption that reads, “Fake media of so-called fake farmer leader, “Teach everyone quickly”. What do you have to teach, Deviji?”.
तथाकथित किसान नेता का फर्जी मीडिया
“जल्दी जल्दी सबको सीखा देना ।”
क्या सिखाना है देवीजी ? pic.twitter.com/SZIxbyjXSj
— Suresh Nakhua ( सुरेश नाखुआ )🇮🇳 (@SureshNakhua) September 6, 2021
The video is viral on both Twitter and Facebook. It was tweeted by @iAnkurSingh.
The video is from the ‘Kisan Mahapanchayat’ in Muzaffarnagar where protestors criticised and boycotted several mainstream media channels.
मुजफ्फरनगर में आज तक की एंकर चित्रा त्रिपाठी को घेरकर ‘गोदी मीडिया हाय-हाय’ के नारे लगाए गए. pic.twitter.com/j3D1m4XPsU
— Ranvijay Singh (@ranvijaylive) September 5, 2021
Upon listening to the audio in slow-motion, it is evident that the journalist said ‘Jaldi Jaldi Sab Kuch Dikha Dena’ (show everything quickly) and a few seconds later the camera pans out to show the large gathering of protestors. Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair had tweeted a slow-motion video.
BJP spokesperson is trying to mislead again. Listen carefully, She says, *Jaldi Jaldi Sabkuch dikha dena*.
Here is a Slo-mo..
Also, She’s addressing the camera person. Camera person sikhayega kaise? Dikhayega hi na. 🤦🏾♂️ https://t.co/Vx85mnIMFO pic.twitter.com/6zgYAkkhIv
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) September 6, 2021
The complete video on the journalist’s YouTube channel ‘The meera Vlogs’ shows that the cameraperson takes a panoramic shot of the protest. The relevant portion can be watched onward 5 minutes.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SusYBCdEWeo?start=305]
Replying to Suresh Nakhau’s original tweet, journalist Rahul Gautam also pointed out that she said ‘Jaldi Jaldi Sab Kuch Dikha Dena’. He further added that he was close to her during the shoot and “any media person can interpret her hand movements, asking her cameraperson to pan around.”
She is saying ‘Jaldi Jaldi sabkuch dikha dena.’ I was near her at media stand and overheard her. Any mediaperson can also interpret her hand movements, asking her cameraperson to pan around.
— Rahul Gautam (@Scribe_Rahul) September 6, 2021
Hence the video was shared with the false claim that a journalist was ‘grooming’ farmers before taking their interview. Recently, a video of farmer leader and Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait uttering ‘Allah hu Akbar’ in the same Muzaffarnagar Mahapanchayat was also shared with a misleading narrative.
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Journalist Ravish Kumar relentlessly targeted on social media via fake news - Alt News
Priyanka Jha
9th May 2018 / 4:08 pm / Last updated: 11th July 2018
“हर गाँव में बिजली पहुँच गई, लेकिन बिजली का बिल गरीब कैसे भरेगा। वो उसके लिए कर्ज लेगा और फांसी लगा लेगा”(Electricity has reached every village, but how will the poor pay the bill? He will have to take a loan for it and then hang himself- translated). This statement is ascribed to journalist Ravish Kumar and has been posted along with his picture on the Facebook page Yogi Adityanath Ki Sena on March 3, 2018. This page has more than 3 lakh followers. At the time of writing, this post has been shared more than 8000 times. It has also been posted in the Zee News Fan Group on Facebook, which has more than 600,000 followers.
चमन-चूतियों की बात ही निराली है 🤣
Posted by योगी आदित्यनाथ की सेना on Wednesday, May 2, 2018
This image has also been shared by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Fans page which has over 7 lakh followers. It has been shared more than 4000 times.
The page Yogi Adityanath Ki Sena has earlier too posted quotes attributed to Ravish Kumar. If one looks closely, the image that is shared of these quotes has ‘YogisenaGkp’ written on it. Recently, this page attributed a fake quote to journalist Rana Ayyub, which was shared thousands of times on Facebook and WhatsApp. Readers are advised to be circumspect if they come across a quotation ascribed to a public figure marked with the words ‘YogisenaGkp’.
Another post claims that Ravish Kumar had said, “मोदी सरकार के आने के बाद से अगर सबसे ज्यादा कोई परेशान है तो वो पत्रकार है, कोई भी आता है और #दलाल बोलकर निकल जाता है।”(After Modi Govt came to power, most harassed are journalists. Anyone can abuse us and call us dalal- translated).
😄😄😄😄
Posted by योगी आदित्यनाथ की सेना on Friday, February 16, 2018
Alt News contacted Ravish Kumar to find out the truth about these quotations, who clarified that none of the statements ascribed to him have been made by him.
This page (Yogi Adityanath Ki Sena) had earlier spread fake news about missing JNU student Najeeb having joined ISIS, and targeted Ravish Kumar, asking why the latter had not reported on this news. This post was shared over 7000 times.
#दलाल और #दोगला एक दूसरे के ही पर्याय है क्या ? 😎
Posted by योगी आदित्यनाथ की सेना on Thursday, March 1, 2018
Alt News had reported that information about Najeeb having joined ISIS was a malicious rumour, which was given credence by some BJP leaders. This page had also posted a fake tweet of Ravish Kumar with the words “No wonder he is called a dalal (translated)”, to make it seem as if it was indeed tweeted by him.
तभी आज लोग इसे दल्ला कहते हैं ।
Posted by योगी आदित्यनाथ की सेना on Saturday, February 24, 2018
The tweet in the post above is from a Twitter handle @RavishKumar_Ind. This is not Ravish Kumar’s Twitter account but a spoof account. Kumar’s Twitter handle is @ravishndtv and his account has been inactive for a long time.
एक बार फिर से ट्वीटर से दिल-विराम लेने का इरादा हो रहा है । दो चार दिनों बाद ग़ायब हो जाऊँगा, लंबे समय तक के लिए । अग्रिम सूचना है ।
— ravish kumar (@ravishndtv) August 22, 2015
“मुझे दुःख है कि मोदी जैसा गुंडा मेरे देश का प्रधानमंत्री है।” (I am sad that a goon like Modi is the Prime Minister of my country- translated). This quotation ascribed to Ravish Kumar too is being posted on numerous groups and by individual users. It was posted on a group Ek Crore Hinduo ka group Jai Shri Ram on May 5, 2018. This group has more than 2 lakh members. One more group BJP Mission 2019 which has more than 66000 members has posted this fake quote.
This quote is still being shared on social media despite the fact that on September 8, 2017, Ravish Kumar via his official Facebook page had clarified that “I have not said any such thing about the Prime Minister” (translated). He had also posted images of this fake quote on his page.
मैंने प्रधानमंत्री के बारे में ऐसा नहीं कहा।
अफ़वाहों का तंत्र इतना व्यापक हो चुका है कि खंडन का भी मतलब नहीं रह गया…
Posted by Ravish Kumar on Thursday, September 7, 2017
Ravish Kumar is often targeted on social media through fake news. Alt News had earlier reported how BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya had targeted him through a mischievously edited video that showed only part of a statement made by Kumar. Recently, a quote with regard to the Ghazipur rape case had been atrributed to Ravish Kumar which was completely fake. In another incident, some unknown person was identified as Kumar’s sister and this was used to spread misinformation about him.
India’s ranking in the World Press Freedom Index, 2018 stands at 138, having slipped two places compared to 2017. With the manner in which journalists like Ravish Kumar who are critical of the establishment are incessantly targeted by right-wing elements, it is not difficult to see that journalism in India is becoming an increasingly difficult exercise.
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Journalists allegedly heckled at Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
11th January 2018 / 3:13 pm
A scuffle broke out at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad on January 6 in which two reporters were allegedly heckled and pushed around by a group of men. Damayanti Dhar, freelance journalist and another reporter with an Ahmedabad based newspaper were present at the hospital to interview Dr. M Mariraj, a student of surgery who had attempted suicide alleging caste discrimination by doctors at the hospital when the incident took place.
Dr Mariraj is a third year student of the Masters in Surgery (M.S) course at the B J Medical College in Ahmedabad. On Friday, he attempted suicide by swallowing sleeping pills following a verbal spat with senior doctors in the operation theatre. Mariraj who hails from Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu had gained admission at the college under the All-India Scheduled Castes (SC) quota. An FIR was filed in which nine doctors were named and booked under the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
A short while after Dr.Mariraj’s interview commenced in the E3 ward of the hospital, a group of men led by one Keval Rathod who claimed to be a High Court lawyer and a Dalit activist entered the room. At one point, according to the reporter when Dr.Mariraj was asked about the claims made by senior doctors that he was oversensitive and overreacted to situations at times, he got visibly upset. At this point, Rathod and others alleged that the reporter had said that the case filed by Dr. Mariraj was false. This led to tension and the reporters were asked to leave the room.
Speaking to Alt News, Damayantee Dhar said, “At one point I asked him (Mariraj) do you think you are overreacting, because this is what your associate professors have said, that you are hypersensitive. Dr. Mariraj thought I asked him if he was exaggerating, and he got agitated. At this point Keval Rathod and others started shouting that I alleged the case that has been filed is bogus. These people became aggressive and Keval started abusing me at this point. I kept repeating I am simply doing my job. Others came into the room. Jyotsna Mali (Dr. Mariraj’s friend and intepreter) and I then came out of the room. These people pushed the other reporter out of the room and shut the door”
Dhar added, “These people then came out of the room and demanded that I show my identity card and that I delete the audio recording of the interview. They pushed me to the wall. The matron, at this point called the security. The constable who was present at the spot intervened but these people were in no mood to listen. Even after we were escorted to the main corridor, we were pulled back into the post-operative ward. I was pushed around and abused. The other reporter’s hand was twisted. The entire incident was recorded by these people from their mobile phones”.
Alt News also spoke to the reporter from the Ahmedabad based daily who concurred with Dhar’s account. “Keval Rathod who was present in the room said that Damayantee had alleged that a false case had been filed by Dr.Mariraj, when she had not said any such thing. Jyotsna (Dr.Mariraj’s friend) tried to mediate but Keval was not backing down. He asked us to get out. We were pushed out of the room. Later, these people stepped out and we were pushed around, not only in the E3 ward but also in the main corridor after we were escorted till there”, he said.
Alt News spoke to Jyotsna Mali, who said that the reporter’s questions were in the nature of provocation, and that she ought to have displayed greater sensitivity while interviewing Dr. Mariraj whose mental condition at that time was delicate. “She was questioning him about his experience and knowledge. Things got heated up because of the way she was questioning him, almost in the manner of interrogation. I left the hospital as I saw things were getting out of hand”
Alt News also spoke to Keval Rathod who downplayed the incident at the hospital. “It was a very minor incident. The reporters asked Dr.Mariraj if he is overreacting, and they suggested that the case filed by him was false as a result of which Dr. Mariraj did not wish to continue the interview. The matter ended there”
Geeta Pathan, PI Shahibaug division Ahmedabad in a conversation with Alt News confirmed that the reporters were indeed heckled at the scene. “Keval Rathod was present at the police station on January 10 where he apologised to Dhar for the misbehaviour of his colleagues at the hospital on January 6. He maintained that there was no intention to hurt the reporter. He has however expressed regret”.
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.
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Journalists and BJP supporters mock Swati Maliwal’s loss citing fake tweets - Alt News
Mohammed Zubair
24th April 2021 / 2:41 pm
The second wave of coronavirus has proved fatal for India with patients unable to get ICU beds and oxygen supply. Several have died waiting to be admitted to hospitals, leaving supporters of different parties passing the buck as states run out of oxygen. A section of journalists and members and supporters of the BJP have targetted the AAP government in Delhi by tweeting an identical screenshot of four handles sharing the exact story about the demise of their grandfather. The first tweet is by the Chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women Swati Maliwal who said that her grandfather passed away waiting to be admitted to Sharda Hospital in Noida. It’s alluded through the screenshot that Maliwal has concocted a story of her grandfather’s death to defame the UP government.
News18 managing editor Amish Devgan, Sirf News founder Surajit Dasgupta, ABP News editor Pankaj Jha, journalist Minhaz Merchant, and author Abhinav Agarwal were among those who tweeted the screenshot.
Copy & Paste = Agenda
Hence Exposed…. pic.twitter.com/YD86ih9SNr
— Amish Devgan (@AMISHDEVGAN) April 23, 2021
Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation chairman Kanchan Gupta, BJP members Keya Ghosh and Surendra Poonia also shared the screenshot. Gupta suggested that AAP is targetting the UP government through a copy-paste campaign. BJP supporters Rishi Bagree and Anshul Saxena also promoted the claim that Maliwal ‘faked’ her grandfather’s death. Most of these posts are now deleted.
Swati Maliwal had tweeted about her grandfather’s demise on April 22. She wrote that her grandfather died after waiting for half an hour in front of Sharda Hospital, Greater Noida.
My nana died waiting for emergency support in front of Sharda Hospital Greater NOIDA. I kept standing there for half hour and pleading for admission and nothing happened. Shame! Pathetic!
— Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) April 22, 2021
The next day, she tweeted about his cremation and also wrote, “Meanwhile fake tweets have been propagated on social media and people have been calling him names”.
Don’t have a brother so I cremated my nana yesterday. Went to Gadh Ganga for his last rites today. Was very close to him and it has been most painful. Meanwhile fake tweets have been propagated on social media and people have been calling him names. Have some mercy! Reham karo!
— Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) April 23, 2021
The journalists and BJP supporters who claimed that a fake story was planted on social media to target the UP government, shared the same screenshot of four tweets. While the first tweet is Maliwal’s, the other two tweets are by right-wing troll accounts @AdolffHitlar and @RamsamVenkat, and the fourth by @kaplnameena01, a pro-Congress account that has deleted the tweet and renamed itself to @kaplanameena.
@AdolfHitlar has pinned the tweet copying Maliwal’s account of her grandfather’s condition on the day of his death. The handle wrote that its tweet was ‘sarcastic’.
But the handle has also retweeted tweets claiming that the story is a conspiracy to defame the Yogi Adityanath government.
And has undoubtedly taken the ‘sarcasm’ too far.
The other handle @RamsamVenkat took down its own copy-pasted tweet and shared a screenshot of the exact tweet by @kaplanameena01 to allude ‘toolkit’ conspiracy.
@RamsamVenkat too is a vocal BJP supporter.
Online troll accounts copy-pasted a tweet by Swati Maliwal about her grandfather’s demise. This was used by a section of journalists and BJP supporters to question Maliwal’s story and also allege an ‘agenda’ to defame the Yogi Adityanath-led UP government.
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Journalists or bots? Flurry of identical, erroneous tweets on PM Modi's gurudwara visit - Alt News
Sam Jawed
21st December 2020 / 7:36 pm
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unscheduled visit to gurudwara Rakab Ganj on Sunday, December 20, that started a flurry of activity among journalists. After being provided information about the visit by their ‘sources’ journalists, one after the other, rushed to break the news. They copy-pasted and replicated the identical text provided to them including the mistakes. The first to tweet was Vikas Bhadauria of ABP News. “Today morning, in a sudden visit, PM @narendramodi went & bowed his head at Gurudwara Rakabjung. He paid tributes to Guru TegBahadur for his supreme sacrifice”, tweeted Bhadauria, misspelling Rakab Ganj as Rakabjung.
Today morning, in a sudden visit, PM @narendramodi went & bowed his head at Gurudwara Rakabjung. He paid tributes to Guru TegBahadur for his supreme sacrifice.
— Vikas Bhadauria (ABP News) (@vikasbha) December 20, 2020
It was clear that the same text was provided to journalists when others repeated the same error — TV9 Bharatvarsh deputy editor Utkarsh Singh, Ravikant Rai, Pankaj Kumar Pandey, ABP News associate editor Ashish K Singh, News18 political editor Amitabh Sinha and DD News reporter Sudhakar Das.
PM Narendra Modi’s personal website also carried the same spelling mistake.
The error was mirrored by news websites as well, including NDTV, The Economic Times and Janta Ka Reporter among others.
Interestingly, ANI, which tweeted a few minutes after Bhadauria took time to correct the text, replaced ‘sudden visit’ with ‘unscheduled visit’ and ‘Rakabjung’ with ‘Rakab Ganj’.
In an unscheduled visit today morning, PM Narendra Modi visited Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib in Delhi and paid tributes to Guru Teg Bahadur for his supreme sacrifice. pic.twitter.com/5kbtyGZ6rF
— ANI (@ANI) December 20, 2020
Journalist Nistula Hebar too corrected the spelling of Rakabganj and replaced ‘sudden visit’ to a more appropriate phrase, ‘surprise visit’.
PM @narendramodi paid a surprise visit to Gurudwara Rakabganj in New Delhi on Sunday morning to pay obeisance to Guru Tegh Bahadur on his martyrdom. @the_hindu
— Nistula Hebbar (@nistula) December 20, 2020
A second part of the messaging sent out the journalists was “No police bandobast or traffic barriers to the common man during this visit”. This was also dutifully replicated.
Today PM @narendramodi went to Gurudwara Rakabjung. He paid tributes to Guru TegBahadur for his supreme sacrifice. PM made a sudden visit , there was no security protocol or bandobast ..
— Naveen Kapoor ANI (@IamNaveenKapoor) December 20, 2020
This morning, in a sudden visit, @PMOIndia went & bowed his head at Gurudwara Rakabjung. He paid tributes to Guru TegBahadur for his supreme sacrifice…No police bandobast or traffic barriers to the common man during this visit of @narendramodi
— Payal Mehta/પાયલ મેહતા/ पायल मेहता/ পাযেল মেহতা (@payalmehta100) December 20, 2020
This is not the first time that text has been provided by ‘official sources’ to tweet. We saw examples of this when leading sportspersons were made to tweet praising PM Modi or when journalists were asked to tweet thanking Smriti Irani.
Such senior sports-persons copy-pasting stuff which they've been asked to tweet by the PMO. The person at the top forgot to remove the "Text: " bit which was to be stripped off before tweeting rest of the text. pic.twitter.com/2lDCxsMsqt
— Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) October 26, 2019
When asked to bend, they crawled….
p.s: They are not random trolls but journalists. pic.twitter.com/1goOxFnnY8
— SamSays (@samjawed65) March 9, 2018
While it may not be unusual for journalists to be part of WhatsApp groups where political parties make announcements, the replication of tweets like bots without putting any attempt to check its veracity is a massive cause for concern. The messaging around the PM’s visit including words like “no security protocol or police bandobast” was relayed to journalists who obliged by pushing the narrative. Does such type of coordinated tweeting of official talking points qualify as journalism?
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July 2019 round-up: Child abduction rumours return with vengeance - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
9th August 2019 / 8:22 pm
In July 2019, rumours about child-abduction gangs resurfaced on social media and WhatsApp, more than a year after over 30 people were killed in mob-lynching incidents over such rumours in 2018. Re-emergence of these rumours has led to a spate of mob attacks in different parts of the country. Another noteworthy aspect was the specific targeting of Rohingya Muslims in these rumours.
A video showing dismembered bodies laid out in a room was circulated on WhatsApp with the claim that 500-2000 Rohingya Muslims divided into small groups are on a prowl in Madhya Pradesh to lift children aged 17 and 18 years. The message suggested that these gangs are armed and they lift kids from outside schools.
The message shared with the video says, “सावधान मध्यप्रदेश में 500से 2000 लोगों की अलग अलग रोहिग्या मुस्लिमो की टोली आई है उनके साथ महिलाएं और उनके पास हथियार भी है और वो 17 या 18 साल तक के लड़कों को पकड़ के ले जाते है स्कूल के आस पास से .. इसको आप सारे ग्रुप में शेयर करें।भोपाल पुलिस C.S.P. Send to all group plz.”
Alt News had debunked this video in June 2019 when it was viral with the false claim that organ smugglers travelling from Bihar to Jharkhand were killing innocents to sell their body parts.
The video actually depicts riots that had broken out in Brazil’s Alcaçuz prison on January 14, 2017.
Alt News’s complete report may be read here.
A video of a woman caught by a mob that interrogates her on suspicions of child-kidnapping has emerged on social media. It has been shared with the claim that gangs of Rohingya Muslims are on a prowl to lift children at night.
Posted by Kirar Manoj Dhakad on Friday, 19 July 2019
The message accompanying the video says, “सावधान भोपाल में 15 से 20 लोगों कीअलग अलग रोहिग्या मुस्लिमो की टोली आई है उनके साथ बच्चे और महिलाएं हैं और उनके पास हथियार भी है और 2 बजे आधी रात को और किसी भी वक्त आते हैं और बच्चे की रोने की आवाज आती है कृपया दरवाजा ना खोले प्लीज इसको आप सारे ग्रुप में शेयर करें। भोपाल पुलिस C.S.P. Send to all group plz.”
According to Patrika, an inebriated woman had mistakenly entered a person’s house in Bareli [Raisen district] on the night of July 19. Falsely suspecting her to be a child-kidnapper, a mob beat her up. The woman was later admitted to a hospital after the police intervened. Alt News corroborated the set of events with Bareli police.
The complete fact-check story can be read here.
A photograph of policemen standing behind a group of people which includes both men and women was shared on social media with the claim that cops in Madhya Pradesh arrested a child-lifter gang of Rohingya Muslims who kidnap 17-18-year-olds. The message warns that 500-2000 such people are on a prowl to lift children from outside schools.
“सावधान मध्यप्रदेश में 500से 2000 लोगों की अलग अलग रोहिग्या मुस्लिमो की टोली आई है उनके साथ महिलाएं और उनके पास हथियार भी है और वो 17 या 18 साल तक के लड़कों को पकड़ के ले जाते है स्कूल के आस पास से .. इसको आप सारे ग्रुप में शेयर करें। भोपाल पुलिस C.S.P.Send to all group plz,” reads the complete message circulated with the photograph.
Alt News found that the incident was unrelated to child-kidnapping. The people seen with policemen were alleged members of a sex racket gang. They were arrested from a redlight area located on Lebad-Nayagoan four-lane road in Madhya Pradesh. The incident was reported by Patrikaon July 15.
Alt News’ compilation of instances of misinformation surrounding alleged child abduction gangs may be read here.
Misinformation of communal nature is a recurrent theme in the misinformation/disinformation ecosystem, with several such posts and messages floating on social media and messaging platforms.
A video of men wielding sticks and swords, where they can be heard raising slogans against PM Narendra Modi, Bajrang and Shiv Sena is being circulated on social media. The video was posted with a message, “भारत का डरा हुआ, खौफजदा, पीड़ित समुदाय, हाथों में तलवार लेकर शिवसेना हाय हाय और बजरंग दल हाय हाय के नारे लगा रहा है. भाई-भाई और सेक्युलरिज्म का विधवा विलाप करने वालों को नहीं दिखेगा यह सब. (India’s scared, intimidated, victim community, is wielding swords and chanting slogans against Shiv Sena and Bajrang Dal. People who talk about brotherhood and mourn like widows for secularism will not see this -translated)”.
The same video was shared with the narrative that the Muslim community was out on roads in Agra to protest against the mob-lynching of Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand.
तबरेज अंसारी के समर्थन में आगरा में सबसे बड़ा जुलूस निकला हिंदुस्तान में रहना होगा अल्लाह हू अकबर कहना होगा दलित मुस्लिम मिलकर निकाला जुलूस
Posted by Ai MiM Rayachoty youth on Thursday, July 4, 2019
Alt News’ fact-check found that the video is from Gopalganj, Bihar and was posted in 2014. Insofar as the audio is concerned, With a Google search of the slogan“हिंदुस्तान में रहना होगा अल्लाह हू अकबर कहना होगा (If you want to live in India then you will have to say Allah hu Akbar -translation)”, Alt News found a YouTube video posted on December 29, 2017. From the start till 53 seconds in the video posted below, the same audio which was superimposed over the viral clipping can be heard.
A set of pictures – one of an alleged newspaper clipping about two Hindu girls who kept Roza [fast] in the month of Ramzan and another of a woman with supposed injury marks on her face – went viral on social media. Several users on Facebook posted the images with the claim that one of the two Hindu girls who had observed Roza was beaten by her Muslim husband and that their union is a case of ‘Love Jihad’.
शिवानी और रिया नामक हिन्दू बेटियों ने हिन्दू-मुस्लिम एकता की मिसाल दी- न्यूज़
अरे क्यों दी, ये भी तो बताते ??
शिवानी ने पहले तो रोजा रखा, आज इस शिवानी के मजहबी पति ने ठुकाई कर दी,#लव_जिहाद हुआ था मजहबी से तो भुगतो 🤣🤣👇👇
उम्मीद है जल्दी ही रिया का भी ऐसा कोई फोटो आएगा pic.twitter.com/kafouml6J2
— शैलेंद्र Shailen🇮🇳 (@shailen_pratap) July 21, 2019
A Google reverse image search of the photograph of the scarred woman led us to an article published by Pakistani news organization Geo TV on March 29, 2019. The article identified the woman as Hajra who had alleged that she was tortured by her husband and had suffered various injuries. The incident had occurred in Pakistan. The newspaper clipping circulated along with Hajra’s photo, meanwhile, pertains to a separate case where two Hindu women – Shivani and Riya – from Madhya Pradesh kept a one-day fast on Ramzan as a gesture promoting Hindu-Muslim unity. The newspaper clipping is of Dainik Bhaskar’s June 4 report.
A video massively viral on social media was circulated with the claim that students of a madrasa in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh raised anti-India slogans. Several social media users posted the video suggesting that the students were from Anjuman school and chanted ‘Pakistan Zindabad’.
Students of madarsa school Mandsaur district (MP) shouted slogans of anti country.. @Payal_Rohatgi @AskAnshul @ThePlacardGuy pic.twitter.com/RBSpP3bYCY
— Shivam Gupta (@agraharishivam7) July 15, 2019
A keyword search on Google led Alt News to several media reports which said that the students were protesting in support of the principal of their school. They did not raise ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans but chanted the name of their principal – ‘Sabir sir zindabad’. The social media claim was false and mischievous.
औरत को आसमानी ज्ञान वाले लोग कितना सम्मान देते है इस वीडियो से पता चल जाता है, जैसे सब्जी मंडी में सब्जियों की बोली लगाई जाती है वैसा ही शांतिदूत लोग करते हैं (How those who have knowledge of the heavens respect women can be known through this video, just how vegetables are auctioned at the market, thats how the peacefuls do it- translation).
The above message was posted on Twitter, along with a video in which a man is seen speaking into a microphone in Arabic. In the video, some women in burqa and chained together, can be seen. The video has subtitles which read,
“We have Yezidi women, we have Kurdish women, and we have Christians. get what your right hand possesses, come get your Mulk-al-yamin (slave). Get yourself a sex slave. Our brave fighters, our brave Islamic State fighters have gone into these areas and killed their murtadin (infidel) scum. So you can have their women today. Takbir, Takbir, Takbir (Allah is great)…”
After this, the auction of the women begins, and the people gathered there can be heard quoting a price for ‘Aisha, 13 years old fresh from Kobane’. This is followed by the auction of more women. The entire video is 2:20 minutes long.
औरत को आसमानी ज्ञान वाले लोग कितना सम्मान देते है इस वीडियो से पता चल जाता है,
जैसे सब्जी मंडी में सब्जियों की बोली लगाई जाती है वैसा ही शांतिदूत लोग करते हैं👇👇@RanaAyyub @Nationalist_Om @TarekFatah pic.twitter.com/qM4Fx8eiRn
— Baby Ola Speaks (@ola_speaks) July 22, 2019
To find out more about the video, Alt News used specific key words and came across an article by BBC News dated October 20, 2014. The article was titled, ‘The mock Islamic State slave auction in London’, and contained a 16 second clip of the same video which has been posted on Twitter. The video in question was actually a representation of a mock sex slave auction performed by Kurdish protesters in 2014. It sought to bring to light the atrocities committed by Islamic State fighters in Iraq, when the terror organisation was then at its zenith, having captured vast swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
गुजरात में एक मस्जिद से पकड़े गये हथियार:- आखिरकार ये मुस्लिम करना क्या चाहते हैं?? वैसे देशभर में मस्जिदों
की चेकिंग की जाए तो ऐसे ही हथियार मिलेंगे?
Translation: Weapons seized from a mosque in Gujarat:- What do these Muslims want after all? If mosques all over the country are checked, will such weapons be recovered?
The above message was shared widely on social media platforms along with a set of photographs in which weapons, mostly swords and knives can be seen. It was claimed that these weapons were recovered from a mosque in Gujarat.
Alt News’ fact-check found this claim to be false. The weapons were seized not from a mosque but from a hotel on the Ahmedabad-Rajkot highway in Gujarat, which was running an illegal arms racket.
A video went viral on social media with the claim that it depicts a Dalit man being mercilessly thrashed by a mob of Muslim men in Uttar Pradesh. The man was beaten up for entering a mosque, the claim furthers. A Twitter user @shailen_pratap shared the video saying, “उत्तर प्रदेश में एक दलित को मस्जिद के अंदर खींच कर ले गए और मार-मार कर अधमरा कर दिया। #MobLynching (A Dalit was dragged into a mosque in Uttar Pradesh and brutally thrashed. #MobLynching.)”
उत्तर प्रदेश में एक दलित को मस्जिद के अंदर खींच कर ले गए और मार-मार कर अधमरा कर दिया।#MobLynching @SudarshanNewsTV @SureshChavhanke @ZeeNewsHindi @sardanarohit @madhukishwar @abpnewstv pic.twitter.com/OrKc7WmD4L
— शैलेंद्र Shailen🇮🇳 (@shailen_pratap) July 11, 2019
A keyword search redirected Alt News to news reports by Dainik Bhaskar, Punjab Kesari and Patrikawhich said that the man was beaten up by a mob on the allegation of stealing a mobile phone. The incident had occurred in UP’s Harpur district. According to Dainik Bhaskar, he was taken hostage by a mob when he had gone to pray namaz and beaten for more than an hour. The social media claim was false.
A video was shared across social media platforms with the claim that a landslide occurred in Malshej Ghat, Maharashtra. This video was circulated at a time when the state was witnessing heavy rainfall. The message most commonly used to share the video said, “Malshej Ghat..plz Do not travel in this side . forward all groups.”
Malshej Ghat..plz Do not travel in this side . forward all groups
Posted by Yog Tikam on Tuesday, July 30, 2019
The video does not depict landslide on Malshej Ghat but the Jammu-Srinagar national highway. According to a report by The Tribune, “The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed for traffic due to shooting stones at various places between Ramban and Banihal stretch of the highway, falling in Ramban district of the state” on July 28. The report further stated that “all types of vehicular movement on the highway was stopped, including the Amarnath yatra, after heavy rain lashed the region, due to which Panthal area witnessed shooting stones”.
photograph of a teenager saving a deer in floodwaters is being circulated on social media. One Susanta Nanda tweeted the image with a message, “Hero’s are made by the paths they choose & not by the power they grace. This picture of the earth hero from Assam is simply outstanding”. Assam has been hit by severe floods this year, forcing 1.5 lakh people to take shelter in relief camps and reportedly taking lives of at least 30 people.
Another picture of a man carrying a baby above his shoulders while his body is submerged in water was also circulated with the claim that it pertains to the recent floods in Assam.
The above picture was clicked during floods in Bangladesh in February 2014. According to a photo-story by the UK based Daily Mail, the incident took place in Noakhali, Bangladesh where wildlife photographer Hasibul Wahab had captured this brave act by a teenager.
Several social media users had circulated images along with the claim that the Ahmedabad-Bhavnagar highway in Gujarat was blocked after heavy rainfall lashed the state. The message was shared along with three photographs showing submerged roads and overflowing rivers underneath a bridge.
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On July 2, multiple news organisations reported that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on the floor of the Rajya Sabha, had said that demonetisation had no impact on the Indian economy. The media organisations which reported this included The Economic Times, NDTV, Outlook, Scroll, Deccan Herald, The Quint, The Print, Bloomberg Quint and Hindu Business Line.
The fact of the matter is that the Finance Minister NEVER stated in the Rajya Sabha that demonetisation has had no effect on the Indian economy. Alt News searched the Rajya Sabha website for questions asked by members on the floor of the House. Congress leader and MP Digvijaya Singh had inquired about the impact of demonetisation on the Indian economy, MSMEs and employment, to which the Finance Minister replied that no specific study has been conducted in this regard.
On June 30, a protest rally was taken out in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh over the recent incident of lynching of Tabrez Ansari in Jharkhand. The next day i.e. on July 1, the Hindi publication Hindustan, which belongs to the Hindustan Times group, published an article in its Meerut edition headlined,“आईएसआईएस के झंडे भी लहराए गए !” (ISIS flags were also waved!- translation). There are two photographs published along with the article. In one of the photos, a black and white striped banner can be seen. In the other photo can be seen two black coloured flags.
Alt News spoke to Akhilesh N Singh, SP City Meerut, who categorically stated that there is no information about ISIS flags being waved at the rally. “We have not seen (ISIS flags at the rally)” (translated). When asked about the report by Hindustan that BJP leaders have lodged a complaint with the police regarding the supposed presence of ISIS flags, Singh said, “We have not received any such complaint. Perhaps Hindustan would be able to clarify on this.” (translated).He however added, “They (protesters) pelted stones and did not allow an ambulance to pass. They did not have permission for the rally. A notice had been issued to them regarding this.” (translated). The full report may be read here.
पूरे भारत मे मज़हबी उन्मादियों का खौफनाक रूप सड़को पर. नंगी तलवारों के साथ लग रहे नारे- चड्ढा चड्ढी वालों को, गोली मारो सालों को. मौत का इशारा @RSSorg व अन्य हिन्दू संगठनों के कार्यकर्ताओं की तरफ. @HMOIndia @AmitShahOffice @AmitShah @narendramodi @PMOIndia @naqvimukhtar (Horrible scenes of religious fanatics can be seen on the streets of India. People are shouting slogans with naked swords raised – Shoot those who wear shorts. The incitement to kill is aimed at workers of RSS and other Hindu organisations)”
A video shared by Sudarshan News with above claim shows a group of people allegedly shouting slogans that roughly translate to “Allahu Akbar, kill the murderers of Tabrez, RSS murdabad, shoot the half-pant guys, the blood of Tabrez will bring a revolution”. The video (archive) was retweeted 2,700 times at the time of writing this article.
Alt News broke the video into multiple key frames using InVid. On reverse searching one of the key frames on Google, we found it matched a video claimed to be of a Muharram procession in Dehri, Bihar. It was uploaded on YouTube on Nov 17, 2017. Unlike the video posted by Sudarshan News, this video has no incendiary slogans with reference to the lynching of Tabrez Ansari. Alt News found that the audio was morphed into the video broadcast by Sudarshan News in a clip of a recent protest rally against Tabrez Ansari’s mob lynching.
After TMC MP Mahua Moitra’s speech in parliament wherein she spoke about seven ‘early warning signs of fascism’, Zee News anchor Sudhir Chaudhary in his prime time programme DNA claimed that Moitra’s speech was plagiarised.
यही है अमेरिकी वेब्सायट का वो लेख जिसे तृणमूल कांग्रेस की सांसद महुआ मोइत्रा ने चुराकर लोक सभा में अपने भाषण में इस्तेमाल कर लिया।हुबहू बिलकुल वही शब्द लेख से सीधे उठा लिए और बोल दिए।संसद की गरिमा ख़तरे में है। https://t.co/4iP3YieHXA pic.twitter.com/HxaHqqdxKS
— Sudhir Chaudhary (@sudhirchaudhary) July 2, 2019
The ‘truth’ about Moitra’s speech which Chaudhary claimed to have investigated, was a misreport. Towards the end of her Parliamentary address, the MP had mentioned the source of her inspiration behind the address. She had said, “In 2017, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum put up a poster in its main lobby and it contained a list of all the signs of early fascism. Each of the seven signs I have pointed to you, features on that poster.”
TMC MP Nusrat Jahan had taken her oath in parliament wearing sindoor. Following this, several media organisations had reported that the Darul Uloom Deoband had issued a fatwa against Jahan. For instance, India Today referred to the Islamic seminary as “Fatwa-happy Darul Uloom”, The New Indian Express called it “Fatwa-loving Darul Uloom”.
The fact of the matter is that no such fatwa was issued by Darul Uloom Deoband. Alt News found that the controversy did not start with a fatwa but a statement that was reportedly given by a Deoband cleric Asad Qasim. The full report may be read here.
A video of Australia’s double-decker metro train was massively viral on social media in July, with the claim that 22 trains, developed under ‘Make in India’, were made operational in Syndey, Australia. The video shows the inside of Sydney’s double-decker metro train with reversible seats. The message accompanying it said, “22 metro trains were Made operational in Sydney yesterday! A Matter of pride, all these trains were MADE IN INDIA! First time in History- Coaches Made in India being run in a foreign land! When PM Modi said New India, this is what he meant.”
22 metro trains were Made operational in Sydney yesterday!
A Matter of 🇮🇳pride,
all these trains were MADE IN INDIA!
First time in History- Coaches Made in India being run in a foreign land!
When PM Modi said New India, this is what he meant! pic.twitter.com/oszuqul1rG
— Kaushik Amlani गरीबी का सेनापति (@AmlaniKaushik) July 23, 2019
Alt News found that the video in question is from 2018. Moreover, the coaches were not manufactured under the ‘Make in India’ initiative as claimed. French manufacturing company Alstom was given a contract to manufacture 22 trains for Sydney metro in 2014. The company manufactured these trains in India and delivered them from its Sricity facility in Andhra Pradesh in 2018. The trains were made operational in May 2019 for the northwest metro line.
“First photograph of earth, sent by Chandrayan 2….. What an eye-catching visual it is,” said a message viral on social media with a set of photographs from space, shortly after the moon mission was launched by ISRO. The images viral on Facebook and Twitter, and also shared on WhatsApp.
Alt News found that one of the pictures was a photograph of a solar eclipse from the Moon and was published by NASA on March 2, 2007. Another was a computer-generated image published by NASA showing the extent of sea ice around Antarctica on September 21, 2005. The third image was an image of Sarychev volcano in the Kuril Islands, Russia. It was published by NASA Earth Observations in 2014. Alt News’ fact-check may be read here.
An image of an excerpt from a textbook, listing the “advantages of dowry”, was viral on social media with the claim that it’s a part of the syllabus under Gujarat Board of Education. The official Twitter account of All India Mahila Congress was among those who shared the image and wrote, “Ugly display of Gujarat Model …..Teaching kids “Advantages of dowry” Social science textbook excerpt is BJP’s idea of women empowerment. We want to remind @CMOGuj about Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 and by IPC 498a, the offence is Cognizable, non-compoundable and non-bailable.”
The paper is not a part of Gujarat Education Board syllabus but was in news in 2017 when the excerpt was reported to be found in the sociology study material of Bangalore’s St Josephs College. As reported by The Times of India in an October 21, 2017 report, the college had come under fire for distribution of the study material listing misogynistic ‘advantages’ of the dowry system.
“Israel has gifted this to India to clean Ganga. What a beautiful gesture ! Thanks to Modi Government’s Friendship Efforts. This is now used at Godavari.”
The above message was posted on social media and messaging platforms along with a video which shows trash being taken out of a river by a machine. In the video, different kinds of machines can be seen collecting garbage from the river. The same was shared on WhatsApp with the identical narrative, that these machines have been gifted to India by Israel and are currently being used to clean the Godavari river.
There are three machines seen in the viral video. Alt News found that only one out of the three machines pertains to India. Reverse-searching one of the frames of the video, we found that two other river-cleaning machines pertain to Baltimore in Maryland, USA and not India. The third machine, though it pertains to India, was not ‘gifted’ by Israel as claimed. Alt News’s fact-check may be read here.
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.
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Delhi govt reduces petrol price? No, old ABP News broadcast shared - Alt News
Priyanka Jha
3rd August 2021 / 5:47 pm
On July 30, a Facebook page posted an alleged screengrab from an ABP News broadcast which stated that the price of petrol in Delhi had been slashed by Rs. 8.36. Users have been circulating the graphic showering praise on Arvind Kejriwal. It has also been claimed that the Delhi government reduced the 30% VAT rate to 16.75%, and the new price of diesel in Delhi now stands at Rs 73.64. The post amassed more than 2,500 likes at the time of writing. (Archive link)
A Facebook page called ‘Youth wing-punjab’ also shared the graphic.
Alt News received a request to investigate the image allegedly broadcasted by ABP News. In addition, we noticed that this screenshot was quite widespread on Facebook.
We performed a keyword search, which revealed that this news is from July 2020. One such report by DNA dated July 30, 2020, discussed the reduced prices of petrol and diesel in New Delhi. The price quoted in this report matches the recent claims being made on social media. The VAT rate is also stated as 6.75%.
ABP News also published a report covering this development on July 30, 2020. CM Arvind Kejriwal had announced the Delhi government’s plans to reduce the prices of diesel and petrol during a press conference. The still that appears after the 2:40 mark in the video below is now being shared online as recent.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRyNTDGLNqE]
To sum it up, the Delhi government has not announced any reductions in the prices of fuel recently. The price of petrol as of August 3 is Rs 101.84. Social media users are sharing screenshots that are a year old. We noticed that this screenshot was circulating back in July 2020 as well. This often occurs due to Facebook’s Memories feature that allows users to reshare posts from a year ago.
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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July round-up: Misinformation weaponised to attack minorities - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
2nd August 2018 / 6:17 pm
The month of August saw the full range of misinformation and disinformation at play- fake quotations ascribed to public figures, photoshopped images targeting political leaders, misinformation with the objective of inciting communal sentiments and bloopers by mainstream media, among others.
1. WhatsApp rumours of Rohingya Muslims on the prowl
In August, the rumours of child-abduction took a communal turn when messages began to circulate of a gang of Rohingya Muslims in Indore out to abduct children.
Over the last couple of months, more than 30 people lost their lives due to mob lynching over rumours of child-abduction gangs active across various regions. It has been observed that these rumours become localised when they circulate in a particular state.
2. March by Muslims demanding release of Mandsaur rape accused
The brutal rape of an 8-year old in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh in June 2018 was given a brazenly communal spin on social media. Thousands of users shared a message, according to which members of the Muslim community rallied on the streets of Mandsaur demanding that the perpetrator of the crime be released because the Quran sanctions rape of non-Muslim women.
The above image is photoshopped. While it is true that Muslim groups in Mandsaur had taken out a rally, it was in support of the victim and against the accused. The banners and placards in the original picture were replaced with these provocative messages seen in the above image and posted by a website called Indiaflare.
3. Karnataka school making students recite verses of the Quran
A video was viral on social media in which a kindergarten school teacher could be seen teaching students to recite verses from the Quran. It was alleged that this took place in Karnataka and was the outcome of Congress and JDS ruling the state.
The video circulated on social media was misleading. It turned out that it was merely one of a two-part video. The second video shows another teacher teaching the students shlokas or verses from the Bhagwad Gita. The exercise was conducted as rehearsal for a programme to be held in the school on independence day and included recitation of verses from the Gita, Quran and the Bible.
4. Muslims responsible for 95% rapes in India in 2016
NCRB report: India is most dangerous for women reason: In India, 95% of the rape cases have a Muslim perpetrator. Of the total 84734 rape cases, 81000 rapes had a Muslim rapist and 96% of the victims are non-Muslims and with an increase in their population, number of rapes will also increase -translation. This message was widely circulated in the beginning of July. Among those who shared it was Mahesh Vikram Hegde, founder of the fake news website Postcard News.
In an official statement given to Alt News regarding the claim, NCRB clarified, “It is totally wrong data & complete misrepresentation of facts as NCRB does not collect data on the religion of accused & victims. It is malicious propaganda, which needs to be countered by the law-abiding citizens. Concerned officials have been advised to initiate legal action.”
5. “280 orphan minor girls made pregnant in Teresa missionary”
Lawyer Prashant Patel Umrao, who is notorious for repeatedly spreading misinformation, tweeted that Umrao tweeted that 280 “minor orphan girls” were impregnated in “Teresa missionary orphanage” and their babies trafficked abroad. His claim was retweeted more than 3,000 times and shared widely on Facebook as well.
Alt News contacted Jharkhand ADGP R.K. Mallick who told us that Patel’s claim is completely false. “The charity gives shelter to unwed mothers. At the time of delivery, they are taken by the nuns to the hospitals. It’s not as if children are born in the MoC homes. Post delivery, the babies are given to different child care centres as their mothers don’t want the responsibility and MoC also cannot take care of so many newborns.”
1. Photoshopped image of Hitler juxtaposed with photo of PM Modi
Two photographs which showed uncanny similarity between two political leaders were juxtaposed. One was of PM Narendra Modi and the other was of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt shared this image on his Twitter and Facebook profile, which was subsequently shared widely.
Spot the difference. pic.twitter.com/yI1fyIOdos
— Sanjiv Bhatt (IPS) (@sanjivbhatt) July 25, 2018
A reverse image search on Google revealed that Hitler’s image used in the post is photoshopped. In the original image, he is not holding the child’s ears but resting his hands on her shoulders. An article in The Sun has published the original image which was apparently clicked to portray the Nazi leader as “personal friend and guardian of the German youth”.
2. PM Modi surrounded by world leaders
A Facebook page Jay Modiraj posted a photograph which showed a seated PM Modi surrounded by political leaders of other countries. It was posted on July 18 and was shared over 5,500 times.
Friends जरा इस फोटो को गौर से देखिये, भारत के इतिहास में क्या यह दृश्य देखने को आपकी आँखें तरस गई होंगी,
Posted by JAY MODIRAJ (“जय मोदीराज”) on Tuesday, July 17, 2018
The original image was taken by a photographer, Kayhan Ozer for Getty Images, an American stock photo agency. The authentic image was captioned, “President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) talks with US President Donald Trump (L), accompanied by Foreign Affairs Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu (2nd R), during a session within the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Hamburg, Germany on July 07, 2017.”
3. Photo of Rahul Gandhi with portrait of Aurangzeb in background
An image of Congress President Rahul Gandhi was shared widely by pro-BJP groups on social media. The image showed a portrait of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in the background. It was shared thousands of times on Facebook.
इन देशभक्तों ने यह कौन से देश भक्त की तस्वीर लगा रखी है
Posted by हिंदुत्व को बचाना है भगवा लाना है Mission 2024 Successfull on Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Despite the absurdness of the photograph, it was widely believed to be true. Needless to say, the image was photoshopped. The original photograph has the portrait of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in the background.
4. Photoshopped image of O. Panneerselvam bowing before PM Modi
A photograph was shared widely on social media, which showed Tamil Nadu Deputy CM O.Panneerselvam folding his hands and bowing before Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This photo had also been posted by several Tamil websites.
This picture will break the hearts of the Bravehearts Tamilians who made the most protected guy in India too scared to drive.He had 2 fly on a chopper, break the wall of Madras IIT,when TN trended #gobackmodi .Then this happened. Tamilians & South Indians will be shocked #TNGovt pic.twitter.com/8xwJV0A6Sp
— Suby (@Subytweets) July 26, 2018
Alt News did a Google reverse image search and found an article published by NDTV on February 18, 2018, titled, ” ‘I’m Minister Because Of PM Modi’s Advice,’ Says O Panneerselvam.” The article contained a photograph with the same background, showing PM Modi and Panneerselvam seated across each other. It was taken by the Press Information Bureau(PIB), a nodal agency of the Government of India when the two met in December 2016.
5. Photoshopped image of Rahul Gandhi checking out photo of skimpily clad woman
A photograph of Congress President Rahul Gandhi checking out an images of a bikini clad woman on his mobile phone has been circulating on social media. A Facebook page, Yogi Sarkar which has more than 400,000 followers posted this photograph on July 30, 2018.
फ़ोटो कभी झूट नहीं बोलती… देख लो राहुल गांधी क्या कर रहा है।
Posted by Yogi Sarkar on Monday, July 30, 2018
In the original photograph, no mobile phone can be seen in Rahul Gandhi’s hand. The photograph was taken in November 2016 when the Congress President had arrived at a bank in New Delhi to exchange his old currency in the aftermath of the announcement of demonetisation on November 8, 2016. The original photograph has been posted on the website of Getty Images and shows Rahul Gandhi holding currency notes in his hand.
1. CNBC-TV18 shares incorrect data on religious demographic composition in Assam
Following the news of the exclusion of 40 lakh people from the final draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) for the state of Assam, CNBC-TV18 shared an infographic which showed how the population of the Muslim community had risen sharply in the state from 13.4% in 2001 to 34.22% in 2011 and the proportion of the Hindu population had concomitantly declined.
Unfortunately the infographic published by CNBC – TV 18 did not pass the most basic of fact checks. The demographic pattern of Assam according to 2001 and 2011 census is as follows:
If we convert the above into percentages, in the 2001 census, the population of Hindus was 64.89% and not 80.5% as projected by CNBC – TV 18. This percentage stands at 61.47% in 2011. The percentage of Muslims in 2001 was 30.91% and not 13.4% as misrepresented by the channel. The percentage stands at 34.22% in 2011.
2. ANI misreports Uttarakhand Govt notification on use of choppers for rescue ops
On July 14, ANI published a report titled, “Uttarakhand: Passengers to be charged during rescue operations.” Affixed with the article was a notification issued by the state Civil Aviation Development Authority addressed to the District Magistrate of Pithoragarh. Based on this, ANI reported that “passengers would be charged availing helicopters during rescue operations at the time of disasters.” The report was also picked up by other news organisations.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat took to Twitter to refute ANI’s reportage. He said that in a government order dated July 4, clear directives were given to use the choppers for rescue at “no cost to evacuees.” This was a clear case of misreporting by ANI.
3. Sudarshan News spreads misinformation about decree against UP police by mosque
Sudarshan News published an article on its website on July 21, 2018 claiming that a decree had been passed by a mosque in UP against the police. This was also shared by Suresh Chavhanke, the editor-in-chief of the channel.
शुरू हो गया वो सब कुछ जिसका डर था . #up की एक #मस्जिद से आया फरमान – “टुकड़े टुकड़े में काटना है @Uppolice वालों को”@baghpatpolice @dgpup @myogiadityanath @narendramodi@adgzonemeerut @HMOIndia #UPCM https://t.co/B2YBnlCpZ2
— Suresh Chavhanke STV (@SureshChavhanke) July 21, 2018
The article published by Sudarshan News was inflammatory in nature and gravely provocative in tone. Despite a clarification by the Baghpat police over the incident, the channel neither pulled down the article nor apologised. Instead, following the article by Alt News, Sudarshan News tried to brazen it out by blaming others.
1. Congress spokesperson and daughter threatened over fake quote
A fake quote attributed to Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi supporting Mandsaur rapist Irfan was circulated on social media. The tweet has now been deleted, but not before spreading fake news and calling for the rape of Chaturvedi’s daughter. “Priyanka I want to rape your daughter. Send your daughter to me – translated,” was the tweet made out by @GirishK1605. The fake quote attributed to Chaturvedi claimed she had said, “Only one rape has been committed in Mandsaur. It is the right of Muslims to rape. Our party is with Irfan (the rapist) – translated.”
After the Mandsaur rape case was reported on, numerous fake quotes were attributed to Congress leaders on social media purportedly defending the rape accused. The person who tweeted the threat to Chaturvedi ironically had ‘Jai Shri Ram’ as his handle. Priyanka Chaturvedi tweeted to Mumbai police who informed her that action has been initiated against this person. A disturbing trend has recently emerged wherein fake quotes are ascribed to persons who then receive death and rape threats on social media.
2. Article criticizing Gandhi family falsely credited to journalist Mark Tully
An article purportedly written by Mark Tully, senior journalist and former Bureau Chief of BBC, New Delhi circulated on social media. The article is titled “Post No Confidence Motion. The road ahead“. It criticized the Congress party and Rahul Gandhi, calling the recent No Confidence Motion introduced in the Lok Sabha a ‘debacle’. It pulled no punches, berating the Gandhi family and the Congress party.
Alt News found the same article shared by a Facebook user Sanjay Mehra on July 21, 2018, without an attribution to Mark Tully. Mehra claimed in the comments section that the article was written by him and not Mark Tully. In a conversation with Alt News, Tully confirmed that he had not written any such article.
3. Fake quote attributed to actress Shabana Azmi
A statement ascribed to actress Shabana Azmi was shared on social media according to which she had said that “India is not a good and great country because Muslims are not happy here” (translated). The quote was shared on many pro-BJP pages on Facebook and by individual users in large numbers.
THIS IS PURE LIES being circulated in my name . Santosh Bhartiya agar aapki sahi identity hai tto prove kariye ye maine kahah kaha hai. Jhoot ki buniyaad par apni dukaan chalaane wale sharm karo !!! pic.twitter.com/g6KB3o4Tcb
— Azmi Shabana (@AzmiShabana) July 13, 2018
Azmi took to Twitter to clarify she had never made such a statement. Alt News found that this quote attributed to Shabana Azmi has been circulating on social media for more than a year now.
There are numerous other instances of misinformation for the month of July, 2018 which do not fit the broad categorization outlined in this article. For example, social media was abuzz with the false claim that Rahul Gandhi’s speech in the Lok Sabha was viewed by a record 48 lakh people live. Similarly, there was another false claim shared widely on social media was about a new initiative for women’s safety by PM Modi. Actress Priyanka Chopra was targeted when an old picture from a movie shoot in which she has donned a burqa was shared with the claim that she wore it before meeting Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
The instances mentioned in this article are illustrative and not exhaustive, as the volume of misinformation and disinformation is staggering and is only expected to head north with the approaching election season.
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.
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June 2019: Misinformation fomenting communal hatred returns post election - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
8th July 2019 / 6:50 pm
Contrary to expectations that the cycle of fake news may stem following the general election, misinformation of communal nature continues to plague the social media ecosystem. June 2019 saw several such instances.
A Facebook user shared an image of a man surrounded by children. According to the text attached to the photograph, he is a Rohingya Muslim who has no food to eat or clothes to wear but has three wives and eight children. It further claimed that the man also has a mobile phone worth Rs 29,000.
The complete text reads, “A helpless poor person on the side a road in Delhi. #Rohigya who has no food to eat and no clothes to wear but has three wives, among whom two are pregnant. He has eight children and just a cheap Samsung C7 pro worth Rs 29,000…we want to improve his standard of living so please file your taxes on time. #Shut_up_there_are_seculars_in_the_country” (translation).
Reverse-searching the image on Google led us to an April 15, 2018 ground report by News18, titled, “Rohingya Lose Their Sanctuary in Delhi to Fire, New Life of Six Years Turns to Ashes.” The image was credited to photographer Debayan Roy. According to the report, a Rohingya named Haroon had fled persecution in Myanmar. His family, and 52 other Rohingya families, had been living in a makeshift camp Darul Hijrat in Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar since 2012. On April 15, 2018, the camp was engulfed in fire and reduced to ashes.
In another instance, a photograph of a young Rohingya girl, taken from a BBC video report on refugees was shared with a false, communal claim.
A video shared by several social media users claimed 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.)” was the message accompanying the video. It was shared by numerous individuals 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 a local news website.
#लखनऊ यह घटना #इंटोजा थाना क्षेत्र की कल की है, #शांतिप्रीय_कोम के #इस्लाम,और चार पांच लोग और, इसकी बहन का रेप करने आए इसने रेप नही करने दिया तो इसकी बहन और दोनों को बुरी तरह पीटा, #जागो_हिंदू_जागो आप लोगों का अंत निश्चित है, और इस घटना में क्या पुलिस वाले इन्हें अस्पताल पहुंचा सकते थे, पर दुर्भाग्य देखिए हमारे देश के शासन का” (#Lucknow This incident is of yesterday, from Intoja jurisdiction, Islam and four-five people from the peaceful community had tried to rape his sister but he didnt allow them to, so he and his sister were beaten up mercilessly, Jaago Hindu Jaago, your end is certain, and in this incident, the police could have taken them to the hospital but look at sad condition of the nation’s administration- translated).
A disturbing video showing a man and a woman in bloodied condition, was circulated on social media with the above claim, that siblings were beaten up after the brother of the girl resisted ‘people belonging to the peaceful community’ from sexually assaulting her. The term ‘peaceful community’ is used derisively to refer to the Muslim community. The slogan “Jaago Hindu Jaago” in the claim suggested that the victims were members of the Hindu community.
#लखनऊ
यह घटना #इंटोजा थाना क्षेत्र की कल की है, #शांतिप्रीय_कोम के #इस्लाम,और चार पांच लोग और, इसकी बहन का रेप करने आए इसने रेप नही करने दिया तो इसकी बहन और दोनों को बुरी तरह पीटा, आप लोगों का अंत निश्चित है, और इस घटना में क्या पुलिस वाले इन्हें अस्पताल पहुंचा सकते थे, पर दुर्भाग्य देखिए हमारे देश के शासन का।
Posted by Dheeraj Pandey on Monday, June 24, 2019
The incident occurred at Itaunja in Lucknow, and not Intoja as claimed in the viral message. Alt News spoke to Ashish Kumar, Media Relations Officer, Lucknow police, who dismissed the claim. “There is no Hindu Muslim angle. Both parties are Muslim. The claim that there was an attempt to rape, is also false. There was a fight between children and elders got involved. This is what had happened.” (translated from Hindi). Moreover, Uttar Pradesh police took to Twitter to clarify that the incident in question occurred between members belonging to the same community.
A message viral on social media attributed a purported speech to former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard encouraging Muslims to leave the country. “Muslims, who are demanding Sharia law have been asked to leave Australia by Wednesday because Australia sees fanatic Muslims as terrorists. Each and every mosque will be searched and Muslims will cooperate with us in this process.”, read a part of the supposed speech attributed to Gillard, who was the 27th PM of Australia from 2010 to 2013.
Alt News found that the speech ascribed to Gillard was cooked-up with bits and pieces lifted from various places. Most of it was from an article by Larry Bouldermilk published by a local newspaper in Georgia. “Everything in the example from the paragraph beginning with the word ‘Quote:’ onwards is an Australianized version of [the] text lifted from an opinion piece written in 2001 by a U.S. Air Force veteran shortly after the 9/11 attacks on America and had nothing whatsoever to do with Australia or Julia Gillard.”, reported the American fact-checking website Snopes.
How can this be allowed @HMOIndia? Sudha Murthy resigns from Thirupathi board. Jagan appoints his uncle YEHOVA VINCENT Subbareddy( YV SUBBARADDY) -a staunch Evangelist as chairman of TIRUPATI TUMALA BALAJI TEMPLE, richest Hindu shrine He works to spread more CHURCHES in Andhra.
The above message was tweeted by Madhu Kishwar, who alleged that Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy had appointed his uncle, allegedly “a staunch evangelist”, as the chairman of the Tirumala Tirupati temple trust, displacing author and chairperson of Infosys Foundation Sudha Murthy, who was a member of the board. Kishwar in her tweet claimed that the full name of Y V Subba Reddy, Jagan Mohan Reddy’s uncle, is Yehova Vincent Subbareddy.
How can this be allowed @HMOIndia? Sudha Murthy resigns from Thirupathi board. Jagan appoints his uncle YEHOVA VINCENT Subbareddy( YV SUBBARADDY) -a staunch Evangelist as chairman of TIRUPATI TUMALA BALAJI TEMPLE, richest Hindu shrine
He works to spread more CHURCHES in Andhra.
— MadhuPurnima Kishwar (@madhukishwar) June 11, 2019
Y V Subba Reddy’s full name is Yarram Venkata Subba Reddy and NOT Yehova Vincent Subba Reddy, as claimed by Madhu Kishwar in her tweet. This was confirmed by Subba Reddy himself, who retweeted a tweet in response to Madhu Kishwar, in which a copy of his poll affidavit was attached. The fact-check can be read here.
“Guess which community is waving Pakistan flags in India’s Tamilnadu state? Buddhists? Zoroastrians? Must be Jews,” read a June 9 tweet by Tarek Fatah, posted along with a video of a bike rally where several people can be seen waving green coloured flags. As per Fatah, the rally took place in Tamil Nadu and the flags were of Pakistan.
Guess which community is waving Pakistan flags in India’s Tamilnadu state? Buddhists? Zoroastrians? Must be Jews. pic.twitter.com/ypeXYknY0o
— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) June 9, 2019
If one carefully watches the video, the bike-borne individuals are not waving Pakistani flags. The country’s flag has a rightward facing crescent moon and star and a white strip on the left. The flags in the video do not have the white strip. Alt News noticed two different kinds of flags in the clip – one, which has a crescent moon and a star in the middle; two, which has a crescent moon and star in the middle and three stars on the left. The entire fact-check may be read here.
“Bhai log kolkata ke raza bazar me 63 madarse ke bachhe ko police ne giraftar kr liya h unka kahna h ke ye aatankwadi ka training lene ja rahe h..is Msg ko jaldi forward kre media dekhne se in kar kar Diya h media bol raha h ke hme uper se order h nhi dekhne ka plz forward all grp”, read the message attached to a video posted by an individual user on Facebook. In the video, a group of students can be seen walking in a queue with policemen guiding them. It was claimed that these were Madrasa students who were arrested by police. According to the post, the police said that they on their way to attaining training in terrorism.
Bhai log kolkata ke raza bazar me 63 madarse ke bachhe ko police ne giraftar kr liya h unka kahna h ke ye aatankwadi ka training lene ja rahe h..is Msg ko jaldi forward kre media dekhne se in kar kar Diya h media bol raha h ke hme uper se order h nhi dekhne ka plz forward all grp…
Posted by Nazeer Naz on Friday, May 31, 2019
Alt News found that the video is four years old and has been circulating on social media with a false narrative. According to media reports, the students were on their way to a madrasa in Pune when they were stopped by the police in Kolkata’s Sealdah railway station due to alleged lack of documentation.
“Ban offering of Namaz on roads on #SecularIndia. @PMOIndia @HMOIndia This is NOT allowed in Islamic countries. Why it is allowed here ????? #PayalRohatgi,” read a June 3 tweet by Payal Rohatgi where she shared a photograph of hundreds of people offering Namaz on the road, thus blocking traffic.
The same image was circulated on social media with the message, “इस्लामिक देशों में जो गलत है वह भारत में सही कैसे..?? सड़कों पर नमाज पढ़ना प्रतिबंधित है इस्लामिक देशों में भारत में सड़कों पर नमाज पढ़ना क्यों प्रतिबंधित नहीं हो सकता क्यों गुलामी करने पर मजबूर हो….???? (How can something that is wrong in Islamic countries be right in India? If offering Namaz on the streets is banned in Islamic nations, why can’t it be banned in India? Why are we acting like slaves?)”
A simple reverse-search on Google threw up the link of the website where the image was uploaded. The website describes the photograph as – “Muslims are praying at in the road due to large number Muslims gathered at Bishaw ijtema at Tongi, Bangladesh.”
A rumour viral on social media claimed that organ smugglers are killing innocents to sell their body parts. The message circulating in Telugu claimed that 500 people travelling from Bihar to Jharkhand, disguised as beggars, are killing people to sell their bodies and kidneys to medical colleges and illegal organ trade businesses. The rumour suggested that six to seven perpetrators have been caught by the police. The message was also circulated in Hindi.
Breaking down the video into multiple keyframes and reverse-searching individual images on Yandex revealed that the video has been doing rounds on social media at least since 2017. It has been shared in varied foreign languages.In March 2019, Agence France-Presse (AFP) had fact-checked a photograph depicting the same events shown in the video. It was then viral as, “kidnapping syndicates in the Philippines targeting people for their organs.” Alt News’ fact-check may be read here.
The political situation in West Bengal was volatile after the result of the 2019 general election. According to some media reports, a BJP worker was killed in post-poll violence in the state. In the midst of all this, Madhya Pradesh Congress tweeted via its official Twitter handle, “BJP had got its workers killed in West Bengal, 11 Bajrang Dal members arrested…”(translation). Along with this tweet, a link to an article which appeared on Daily Hunt, was also shared.
पश्चिम बंगाल मे बीजेपी ने ही करायी थी अपने कार्यकर्ता की हत्या, बजरंग दल के 11 कार्यकर्ता गिरफ्तार..!
हैरान मत होईये !
फ़र्क़ बस इतना है कि भाजपा ने बंगाल में नकाब उतार रखा है।
वैसे, अपने ही कार्यकर्ताओं की हत्या करना कुछ ज़्यादा घृणित नही हो गया..? https://t.co/8w93YrjEYA
— MP Congress (@INCMP) June 11, 2019
This claim about the murder of BJP workers at the hands of 11 Bajrang Dal members, is based on an incident which had taken place in 2018. An article related to this had appeared in NewsHunt (DailyHunt) on June 4, 2018. This report had been published by ANI as well, but it was later removed.
According to a report by NewsLaundry, the arrest of Bajrang Dal members was related to violence at Ram Navami, and not over the murder of BJP workers. ANI had told NewsLaundry that the article published by it was factually incorrect and hence, was taken off.
“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 doctors’ protest in Kolkata, the above message was viral in Bengali on social media platforms. The message was circulated with CCTV footage that shows a group of people thrashing a doctor.
দেখুন ঠিক কেন ডাক্তাররা নিরাপত্তা দাবি করছেন ,দেখুন পুলিশের ভূমিকা ।
সম্পূর্ণ ভিডিওটি দেখার জন্য আগ্রহ করছি ।
Posted by Akash Sadhu on Friday, June 14, 2019
A careful glance at the video was 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.
“Modi ji’s important decision since barabanki liquor accident has been stopped by alcohol in whole india from tonight,” was a message viral along with an alleged screengrab of an Aaj Tak broadcast. Citing the media outlet, social media claims suggested that the Prime Minister had decided to ban liquor across the country.
बाराबंकी शराब हादसे के बाद से मोदी जी का अहम फैसला आज रात से पूरे भारत मे अल्कोहल शराब बंद ।।
Posted by अगर राजस्थानी हो तो पेज लाइक करो on Tuesday, 28 May 2019
The image shared on social media was photoshopped. Closer scrutiny of the image revealed several errors which are uncharacteristic of a professional TV news channel. Alt News’ fact check may be read here.
A quote that says – “पोर्न देखने से ज़्यादा बच्चे पैदा होते हैं (Watching porn leads to the reproduction of more children)”, was attributed to UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The statement was circulated as a news broadcast by ABP News.
Alt News contacted ABP News editor Pankaj Jha who said, “It’s a fake graphic plate. We don’t use this font for text.” A comparison of the screengrab and a genuine ABP News graphic plate from its broadcast shows a clear distinction. Moreover, the content was taken from a satirical website.
Agra resident Lalita Kumari, 17, has been suffering from aplastic anaemia for the past 19 months. The family required Rs 10 lakh for her treatment, an appeal for which was made to the PMO last year in July. Two months later, in September 2018, partial financial assistance of Rs 3 lakh was provided to Lalita.
Since then, the family has been struggling to gather the remaining Rs 7 lakh. The Times of India reported on June 22, 2019, that the family, unable to arrange for the funds, sought euthanasia for their daughter in a written request to chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Soon after, media reports started pouring in with the claim that the Prime Minister extended Rs 30 lakh aid for the ailing child.
A sum of Rs. 3 lakh had been granted for the treatment out of the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund. An extra zero was mysteriously added to this figure, with numerous media reports stating that a sum of Rs. 30 lakh had been granted, which was not true. Alt News’ fact check may be read here.
A poster shared on social media claimed that a Pakistani man masquerading as an Indian cricket fan was urinating at The Oval, London, during the India vs Australia game. A collage of photographs, where a man dressed in the Indian tricolour can be seen, was also shared along with the poster. The text reads, “Farid Khan, this man from Pakistan wear Indian flag dress pretend to be an Indian cricket fan is peeing in The Oval gallery during India v/s Australia match and also recorded the video and posted on social media, video goes to viral then London police arrested him and his 2 brothers. Such a shameful act by Pakistani citizen”. It suggested that a Pakistani citizen attempted to tarnish India’s image by pretending to be an Indian fan who indulged in the obscenity.
The claim that this person, dressed in Indian colours is actually a Pakistani, is false. Alt News found that the man dressed in the tricolour is an avid Indian cricket fan named Narendra Bhojani. The entire fact-check may be read here.
A video of an old man surrounded by a crowd of people was shared on social media with the claim that he is a Brahmin who was thrashed in South India. “एक वृद्ध ब्राह्मण की पहले यग्योपवित (जनेऊ) काटी फिर कपड़े उतार कर भीड़ ने डांस करने के लिए मजबूर किया। यह स्थिति है दक्षिण के .@INCIndia शासित राज्यों की, .@RahulGandhi जी क्या यह अल्पसंख्यक ब्राह्मणों के साथ मोब लिंचिंग नही है? (An old Brahmin’s janeu (sacred thread) was removed and he was forced to dance in a crowd after his clothes were stripped off. This is the state of South. States under Congress rule. Rahul Gandhi ji, isn’t this mob lynching of minority Brahmins?)” – is the message shared with the clip.
एक वृद्ध ब्राह्मण की पहले यग्योपवित (जनेऊ) काटी फिर कपड़े उतार कर भीड़ ने डांस करने के लिए मजबूर किया।
यह स्थिति है दक्षिण के .@INCIndia शासित राज्यों की, .@RahulGandhi जी क्या यह अल्पसंख्यक ब्राह्मणों के साथ मोब लिंचिंग नही है?
.@ANI .@sudhirchaudhary .@narendramodi .@AmitShah pic.twitter.com/GpNEI4dLKD
— Dev Oza 🇮🇳 (@DevOza7) June 26, 2019
Alt News found that the video was uploaded on the application Tik Tok, and the person seen in the video seemed to be voluntarily dancing, with the crowd cheering him on, unlike what was claimed.
“सऊदी अरब सरकार ने अरबी में “भगवद्गीता” रिलीज की। यहाँ तो “भारत माता की जय” बोलने से इस्लाम खतरे में आ जाता हैं।” (Saudi Arabian govt released ‘Bhagvad Gita’ in Arabic. Here, even saying ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ puts Islam in danger- translation).
The above message was circulated widely on social media, claiming that the Government of Saudi Arabia has released an Arabic translation of the Bhagavad Gita. It had been shared on both Twitter and Facebook. Accompanying the message is a picture of a book cover showing Krishna and Arjuna on a chariot, along with what appears to be Arabic text.
सऊदी अरब सरकार ने अरबी में “भगवद्गीता” रिलीज की।
यहाँ तो “भारत माता की जय” बोलने से इस्लाम खतरे में आ जाता हैं। pic.twitter.com/psj9d6VgEB
— Pushpendra Kulshrestha (@Nationalist_Om) June 24, 2019
The claim that an Arabic translation of the Bhagavad Gita has been released by the Saudi Arabian government, is utterly false. A simple Google search with the keywords ‘Saudi Arabia Bhagavad Gita Arabic translation’ throws up not a single news report. Moreover, Arabic translations of the Bhagavad Gita have been available for several years.
A social media claim suggested that Prabhat Pheri – the custom of chanting and singing bhajans during early morning walks – took place for the first time in 40 years in Srinagar, Kashmir Valley. A video shared to support the claim shows a group of people singing ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ on the road while the police are providing protection to the devotees. The accompanying caption said,“श्रीनगर कश्मीर में 40 वर्षों में पहली बार प्रभात फेरी का आयोजन हुआ। सोचो ये कैसे मुमकिन हुआ…? मोदी है….. तो मुमकिन है। जय श्री राम (For the first time in 40 years, Prabhat Pheri was organised in Srinagar, Kashmir. Did you wonder how this was made possible? Modi hai toh mumkin hai.)”
श्रीनगर कश्मीर में 40 वर्षों में पहली बार प्रभात फेरी का आयोजन हुआ।
सोचो ये कैसे मुमकिन हुआ…?
मोदी है….. तो मुमकिन है।
जय श्री राम@narendramodi @AmitShah pic.twitter.com/DGH8A3jSqA
— Puneet Sharma (@iPuneetSharma) June 27, 2019
Alt News found this claim to be false. Firstly, the video accompanying the claim did not depict the Prabhat Pheri as claimed, but was shot on Ram Navami. Secondly, both Prabhat Pheri and Ram Navami have been celebrated earlier in the valley.
Misinformation ahead of the general election was varied, and not exclusively focused on communal hate-mongering, which seems to have returned with a vengeance post the election.
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.
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June round-up: Rampant child abduction rumours result in mob-lynching incidents across country - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
3rd July 2018 / 7:35 pm / Last updated: 9th July 2018
June turned out to be ominous insofar as the sinister impact of misinformation is concerned. Rumours of child abductors abounded in various states, shared via WhatsApp. The suspicion, mistrust and fear created by these messages which mostly circulated with gory images and videos of alleged child kidnappers being assaulted by the public resulted in the death of almost 20 people across the country. Misinformation of this nature was all-pervasive in June and continues unabated.
A spate of rumours erupted in June in many states across the country from Uttar Pradesh to Maharashtra to Tamil Nadu. These rumours were generated and spread via WhatsApp and warned citizens of child abduction gangs on the prowl.
The above message was circulating in Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha. Alt News had found that the same set of images was being used across the country. Most of the photographs were unrelated and had nothing to do with child abduction. Yet, these rumours continued unabated and spread to other states. In Maharashtra, WhatsApp messages warned of gangs who have abducted young girls and extracted their organs. A 40 year old woman was lynched in Ahmedabad on suspicion of child lifting.
According to reports, atleast 18 people have been killed on suspicion since May 2018 as mob violence erupted in different parts of the country. There has been no respite; in the latest incident, five people were lynched in Dhule, Maharashtra after they were suspected of being child kidnappers.
A video was also widely circulated in which a child can be seen being abducted. This video was shared in different states claiming that the gang seen in the video is active in the area. Alt News found that this is an old video from 2016 made for awareness purposes by an organization named Roshni Helpline. The video ends with the text: “Every year, over 3000 children go missing in Karachi, Pakistan. Keep an eye on your child.” The abduction was staged to educate people about rampant child abduction in Karachi. The original video is posted below.
Alt News has observed that the child-abduction rumours are being localised from state to state. If the rumour is aimed at Maharashtra, then the message is circulated in Marathi and refers to a place in Maharashtra claiming that the child-kidnappers are on the prowl in the said place. Similarly, when the messages are circulated in Gujarat, they are circulated in Gujarati and refer to a place inside Gujarat. This is an atypical behaviour as far as misinformation is concerned. In most cases of misinformation, the central narrative remains the same and does not change during its life-cycle. On occasions, we have seen that the same video is circulated with different narratives, but this is usually not the norm.
A large proportion of misinformation is directed towards sowing the seeds of division and hatred among religious communities. The month of June was no different. There were a number of attempts to rouse communal passions by portraying the ‘other’ as the aggressor. The common targets for these miscreants were the states of West Bengal and Karnataka.
Five Days holiday to celebrate #Eid in @MamataOfficial‘s West Bengal.She has already made it an #IslamicState!!! pic.twitter.com/dOuiHEnP9N
— SV PALANISAMY (@vpalanisamy2010) June 10, 2018
The above tweet claimed that the West Bengal government had sanctioned five days of holiday for Eid had posted a ‘notification’ in the name of the Governor. This turned out to be forged. No such notification had been issued by the West Bengal government, but it was an attempt to paint the Mamata Banerjee led TMC as pandering to the minority community.
The fake news website PostCard News claimed that social science textbooks in Karnataka were encouraging conversion to Islam and Christianity. This was false and malicious. Karnataka continued to be the backdrop for fake news purveyors. Videos of violence from elsewhere or unrelated videos were masqueraded as aggression by Muslims on Hindus.
In another instance, a photoshopped image was being shared in which a teacher in a madrasa was shown demonstrating Islam to be a superior religion to Hinduism.
Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to an RSS event in Nagpur was watched keenly, and soon after his address, a photograph began circulating on social media in which Mukherjee was showing wearing the RSS cap and doing the traditional RSS salutation.
Alt News tried to find out the source of the image and it turned out that this photograph was posted by a social media user who is followed by PM Narendra Modi on Twitter. The picture was circulated widely in an organised manner through a number of Twitter accounts and hundreds of pages on Facebook followed by millions of members. A number of fake quotes were also ascribed to Mukherjee in which he purportedly berated the Congress party and praised PM Modi.
When a fire engulted the Income Tax office building in Mumbai in the beginning of June, reports emerged that crucial files relating to Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi may have been lost in the blaze.
Alt News found that a correspondent with The Pioneer was the among the first to raise suspicion over the files having been destroyed in the blaze. This was subsequently picked up by various media publications without due verification. The Income Tax department later clarified that the files are safe.
In these 70 years of independence, there were only three years India did not take any loans from the World Bank – 2015, 2016, 2017 – is this Modiji’s failure or success? Namo namah- translated. This message was circulating on Facebook and Twitter, and was shared by thousands of social media users.
70 साल के इतिहास में केवल 3 साल ऐसे हैं जब भारत ने वर्ल्ड बैंक से कर्ज नहीं लिया
2015, 2016, 2017
ये मोदी की विफलता है या सफलता।
🙏 नमो नमः 🙏
— Sagrika (@Sagrika4india) June 1, 2018
Alt News fact checked this claim and found it to be untrue. India has availed loans to the tune of USD 96 billion in the period from 2015 to 2017 for as many as 50 different projects.
A post was shared by thousands of people on Facebook, according to which Dr. Sambit Patra, national spokesperson of the BJP, had raped a female patient due to which his medical license was revoked.
Alt News could not find any such case regarding Dr. Patra who, in a conversation, said, “I am contemplating defamation against verified handles and websites which are spreading such kind of unfounded, uncouth and untruth information”.
PM Modi addressed a gathering at Maghar in U.P on the death anniversary of Kabir, the poet-saint and mystic. In his address, PM Modi said, “I once again salute Mahatma Kabir in this land of nirvana. It is said that Sant Kabir, Guru Nanak Dev and Baba Goraknath sat together at this place and discussed spirituality” (translated).”
PM Modi is known to make gaffes over history and this was yet another instance. Historians and scholars have placed Gorakhnath in the 12th century CE, whereas Nanak and Kabir belonged to the 15th century CE, three hundred years after Gorakhnath.
Addressing a gathering of Congress workers in New Delhi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said that the founder of Coca-Cola started his journey by selling ‘shikanji’ or lemonade on the roadside.
#WATCH Congress President Rahul Gandhi talks about origins of the Coca-Cola & McDonald’s company, says, “Coca-Cola company ko shuru karne wala ek shikanji bechne wala vyakti tha…” #Delhi pic.twitter.com/MATnaR734J
— ANI (@ANI) June 11, 2018
This assertion was found to be incorrect. John Pemberton, founder of Coca-Cola, was a pharmacist who first concocted the beverage to address his morphine addiction which was the result of wounds sustained in a battle.
If electricity is removed from water and the water goes to the farm, such water will have no energy and will be useless in the farm- translated. AICC General Secretary and former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot was roasted on social media after he purportedly made these daft remarks at a press conference. A 16-second clip circulated widely on Twitter in which Gehlot could be heard saying these words.
Friends I received this video!
Is it authentic??
Is this the way the Congress misguided our Farmers??
Pls enlighten!!
अशोक गहलोत का विज्ञान – पानी मे से बिजली पैदा करके खेतो में भेजेंगे तो प… https://t.co/cLPCawUXiz via @YouTube
— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) June 5, 2018
Alt News fact checked this viral claim about Gehlot’s statement and found that the clip doing the rounds is a severely truncated part of a longer video in which he is saying that when he was young, he had witnessed how Jan Sangh cadres were spreading misinformation about the Bhakra dam which was inaugurated by former PM Jawaharlal Nehru, spreading rumours that once electricity is removed from water, the water will become useless.
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.
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Media, journalists share old images as aftermath of Kabul airport blasts - Alt News
Priyanka Jha
28th August 2021 / 8:04 pm
On August 26, Kabul was rocked by two blasts outside the airport. According to reports, more than 100 people died in the bombing attacks and many of the injured have been hospitalized as the death toll continues to rise. Social media was flooded with visuals of the aftermath of the blasts.
Against this backdrop, AFP journalist Uzair Rizvi pointed out that Republic TV shared an old image taken on August 16 as a scene from the time of the blast near Kabul airport.
Indian news channel Republic TV is sharing an old image of Kabul Airport taken on August 16 by AFP photographer as “Moment of Blast at Kabul Airport.”#FactCheck #FakeNews #Taliban #Afghanistan
Link to the original photo from August 16 https://t.co/AZlWc5qUQg pic.twitter.com/UePLtLHpt0
— Uzair Rizvi (@RizviUzair) August 26, 2021
We noticed that in addition to Republic TV, Zee News, Times Now, India Today, and Republic Bharat also aired this photo as scenes from the ground following the attack. In fact, three old images were being shared as Kabul after the explosions. Zee News anchor Sudhir Chaudhary had also shared a few images as the latest visuals from the blasts.
We were able to locate this image on the website of AFP. The related information states that it shows Afghans waiting to leave the country on August 16 at Kabul airport.
This photo is also available on AFP’s website and was taken on August 16. Both photos were taken by AFP photographer Vakil Kohsar.
We performed a reverse image search and found the original photo in a 2015 news story. This picture is of a blast outside an airport in Kabul in July 2015. It was tweeted by an Afghan news agency in August 2015.
جزییات تازه: انفجار نیرومند بوده و گفته می شود که مهاجم انتحاری دو موتر زرهی حامل مقام های دولتی را هدف قرار داده است pic.twitter.com/R7rGHsvEpP
— 1TVNewsAF (@1TVNewsAF) August 10, 2015
Sudhir Chaudhary later clarified in a tweet that the images he had shared in the aftermath of the recent bombings were actually old.
CORRECTION: I’m told these pictures are old but we can confirm the news of 2 blasts outside #KabulAirport. Regret the inadvertent error in the heat of the breaking news moment when too much content is floating around. pic.twitter.com/A21ZjPPaY0
— Sudhir Chaudhary (@sudhirchaudhary) August 26, 2021
News18 journalist Ravindra Singh shared a video of scenes from Kabul after the second blast near the airport. It had amassed more than 64,000 views at the time of writing.
#BREAKING : Second explosion hit Baron Hotel near #Kabul airport where Americans were rescued last week.
Reports saying now 30 killed in blasts.#Afghanistan #Talibans #Kabulairport @ravindrachanni pic.twitter.com/P9pBA5LhcQ
— Ravindra Singh (News18) (@ravindrachanni) August 26, 2021
News18 Odia also aired this clip. (Archive link)
କାବୁଲ ଏୟାରପୋର୍ଟରେ ଭୟଙ୍କର ବିସ୍ଫୋରଣ #explosión #KabulAirport pic.twitter.com/vR3sA1MNdB
— News18 Odia (@News18Odia) August 26, 2021
#Breaking #Kabul Explosion
Reports of Second Explosion taking place pic.twitter.com/zOihb5wO6n
— GeopoliticalUpdates (@GeopolUpdates) August 26, 2021
Furthermore, several other handles promoted the video and the accompanying claim including India.com, Baaghi TV anchor Ali Raza, Chandrakant Shinde, @FORCE_OFJUI, and @dark_knoght to name a few.
Alt News noticed that a user had replied to the aforementioned tweet by journalist Ravinder Singh that the video appears to be from Gaza.
The video seems to be from Gaza
— Chas Newkey-Burden (@allthatchas) August 26, 2021
Using this information, we found many other such posts wherein the clip had been shared as Gaza. All of these had been uploaded on August 22, 2021. Therefore, this video, which has existed online since August 22, cannot possibly show the on-ground visuals from Kabul on August 26. Gaza youth activist @Abuabraa2110198 posted this video on August 22, calling it an attack by Israel.
الله أكبر فوق كيد المعتدي
لحظة الغارات العنيفة على المنطقة الوسطى والتي استهدفت موقع عرين للمقاومة .#غزة_تحت_القصف pic.twitter.com/2A1TNLC7hC
— معتز أبوريدة_غزة 𓂆 🇵🇸 (@Abuabraa2110198) August 21, 2021
Momen Faiz, a Gaza-based journalist, and a Palestinian media organisation also posted the video on August 22. Apart from this, another media platform published a report on August 22 describing the scene in the video as that of Gaza.
Mint Press News posted this video on Facebook on August 24, describing it as an attack on several locations in Gaza.
Breaking News: Israel bombing civilians in Gaza
💥BREAKING NEWS💥
Deafening silence by the media on Israel’s indiscriminate bombing campaigns on residential areas is predictable… nothing to see here folks 🙄
Posted by Mint Press News on Monday, August 23, 2021
Zee Hindustan journalist Preeti Negi tweeted a video of scenes from Kabul airport, which garnered 48,000 views.
Live visuals from outside #Kabulairport
है भगवान 🙏🏻! pic.twitter.com/6ydpzapvPU
— Preeti Negi Journalist (@PreetiNegi_) August 26, 2021
A handle named @GeopolUpdates also shared this footage. (Archive link)
IsIs-KP was behind attack at Kabul airport, says UK defence source
*UK initial assessment:
• 1st explosion was suicide vest at Baron hotel, followed by small arms fire.
• 2nd explosion was vehicle bomb at Abbey Gate. pic.twitter.com/aeKUiZntWf
— GeopoliticalUpdates (@GeopolUpdates) August 26, 2021
In a reply to Negi’s tweet, Alt News editor Ketan pointed out this is a five-year-old video from Iraq.
5 year old video from Iraq. https://t.co/bkNwt9YlRq
— Ketan | کیتن (@Badka_Bokrait) August 26, 2021
The clip was uploaded on YouTube on April 26, 2016. According to a report, terror outfit ISIS took responsibility for this blast in Iraq, which was carried out by a suicide bomber inside a vehicle.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbRf4-FxmnI]
To sum it up, numerous old pictures and videos are being shared as scenes from the ground following the recent explosions near Kabul airport. A number of media outlets also carried these visuals.
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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Is Kamal Haasan's party website registered in Cayman Islands, a tax haven? - Alt News
Pratik Sinha
23rd February 2018 / 8:53 pm
“Kamal’s party website http://Maiyam.com is registered in Cayman Island.” “Maiyam Cayman Island link, Cayman Island is a Tax Haven, How did Kamal who is fighting Corruption, get people in Tax Haven to register his domain.?” The aforementioned claims vis-a-vis the party website of Kamal Haasan’s newly floated party were made by Hari Prabhakaran. Prabhakaran according to his Twitter biography is AIADMK IT wing Joint Secretary and his tweets have been retweeted many hundred times.
Maiyam Cayman Island link, Cayman Island is a Tax Haven, How did Kamal who is fighting Corruption, get people in Tax Haven to register his domain.? #KamalPartyLaunch pic.twitter.com/OezLXL1C7N
— Hari Prabhakaran (@Hariadmk) February 22, 2018
The evidence that Prabhakaran offers regarding Kamal Haasan’s website being registered in Cayman Islands is the WHOIS data for Maiyam.com, Maiyam.com Pvt Ltd being a company in which Kamal Haasan is the director. WHOIS information can potentially reveal name, address, phone number etc of a domain’s owner. The operative word here being ‘potentially’. We’ll see in this post how Prabhakaran’s tweet displays ignorance about certain basics of domain registration. Here, it must also be mentioned that the Kamal Haasan’s official party website is maiam.com and not maiyam.com.
The WHOIS data of maiyam.com can be seen below with the alleged Cayman Islands link underlined in red.
As we stated earlier, WHOIS information can potentially reveal name, address, phone number etc of a domain’s owner. However, there are many services which also help domain owners hide their original identity. In this specific case, the circled text in the above screenshot “PRIVACYDOTLINK CUSTOMER 2802196” is an indicator that Maiyam.com is using one such service. A simple google search for PrivacyDotLink leads us to the website of the company which offers this product – uniregistry.help.
Uniregistry describes Privacy.Link as a FREE WHOIS proxy service to registrants with Privacy.Link™ which masks your personal information in the public WHOIS record.
So, who does this Cayman Islands address on Seven Mile Beach actually belong to? It belongs to Uniregistrar Corp, the company that offers the Privacy.Link services.
Thus the allegation that Kamal Haasan’s party website is registered in Cayman Islands is completely baseless. This misinformation was relayed by several people on Twitter. One of the prominent individuals to popularize this was former AAP MLA Kapil Mishra.
Explosive – Why Kejriwal went for Kamal Hasan's Party Launch –
International Christian Missionary Link Exposed here.
It's website registered in Cayman Island – a Tax Heaven for black money holders – Read every single detail in this thread by @Hariadmk https://t.co/jjDP2XLP8j
— Kapil Mishra (@KapilMishra_IND) February 22, 2018
Fake news site Postcard.news picked up this hoax and published an article titled, “Is Kamal Hassan working with Christian Missionaries of Cayman Islands, is this the main reason for his hatred towards Hindus?“.
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Kangana Ranaut falsely claims she was 'forced' to vote for Shiv Sena in 2019 Lok Sabha polls - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
18th September 2020 / 9:22 pm / Last updated: 19th September 2020
Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut has been at the center of media attention and controversies since the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. However, what started as an attack on Bollywood, has now turned into a political turmoil with the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra government. Earlier his month, Ranaut compared Mumbai with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir following which the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) demolished parts of her Bandra office.
In a recent interview with Navika Kumar on Times Now, Ranaut claimed that she was “forced” to vote for Shiv Sena due to the party’s alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “I am a BJP supporter, why should I vote for Shiv Sena?” she recalled her experience voting from Bandra. “See I don’t understand politics, I am very naive. I don’t know why these groupisms happen but I was forced to put my hand on Shiv Sena button because there was no option of BJP. Their alliance for those areas was only and only Shiv Sena so I voted for them and this is the treatment I am getting.”
I voted for Sena though I support BJP. But I was ‘forced’ to vote due to their alliance: Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam), Actor tells Navika Kumar on #FranklySpeakingWithKangana. pic.twitter.com/XlFh0ngmxI
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) September 16, 2020
India Today deputy editor Kamlesh Sutar pointed some factual discrepancies in Ranaut’s claim. “As per CEO Maharashtra data, Kangana Ranaut is a voter of Bandra west seat. Ashish Shelar of BJP was Sena-BJP candidate here in 2019. In Loksabha again Poonam Mahajan of the BJP fought and won.”
I see some factual error here. @KanganaTeam says she ws forcd to vote for Shivsena. As per @CEO_Maharashtra data, @KanganaTeam is a voter of Bandra west seat. Ashish Shelar of BJP was Sena-BJP candidate here in 2019. In Loksabha agn Poonam Mahajan of the BJP fought n won. https://t.co/to48IJgUtD pic.twitter.com/56OrytAWyd
— Kamlesh Sutar (@kamleshsutar) September 16, 2020
In response to Sutar’s tweet, Ranaut accused him of spreading “naughty lies” and threatened him with legal consequences. “I am clearly talking about Lok Sabha elections but he is deliberately talking about Vidhan Sabha elections,” she wrote.
However, as pointed out by Sutar, Ranaut’s claim that she was “forced” to vote for Shiv Sena cannot be true. The candidates for constituencies in which Kangana Ranaut is registered to vote during both Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections belonged to BJP, with BJP-Shiv Sena contesting the elections as an alliance.
Lok Sabha elections
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Ranaut cast her vote at a polling booth in Khar.
#Mumbai: Actor Kangana Ranaut after casting her vote at a polling booth in Khar. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/L4nXhMbyvj
— ANI (@ANI) April 29, 2019
Khar is in Mumbai Suburban district which is a part of Vandre (Bandra) West assembly constituency under Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha constituency. Readers can self-verify the same on the website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra under ‘General Information>List of Polling Stations’.
Poonam Mahajan of the BJP was the BJP-Shiv Sena candidate who came out victorious from Mumbai North Central.
#VotingRound4 | Poonam Mahajan, BJP MP Candidate from Mumbai North Central, cast her vote in #Phase4 in Worli, Mumbai.#ElectionsWithMC Updates: https://t.co/DbWDel6ja2 | #Elections2019 pic.twitter.com/w8S3MXh3YZ
— moneycontrol (@moneycontrolcom) April 29, 2019
Therefore, Ranaut’s claim that she was ‘forced’ to vote for a Shiv Sena candidate in Lok Sabha election due to the party’s alliance with the BJP cannot be true.
Vidhan Sabha elections
According to an Amar Ujala report, Ranaut was not in Mumbai at the time of the assembly elections in October 2019. Had she cast her vote, it would have been for a BJP politician. BJP’s Ashish Shelar was the BJP-Shiv Sena candidate from Bandra West assembly constituency and he also won the seat.
Kangana Ranaut made false claims on national television and then again on social media. When she was called out for the same, the actor threatened journalist Kamlesh Sutar with legal consequences. Mumbai Press Club condemned Ranaut’s statement and wrote, “Celebrities, Politicians & their workers, pls do not intimidate journalists.” Ranaut later took down her tweets.
The Mumbai Press Club takes serious cognisance and condemns the threat by @kanganateam against journalist/Club member @kamleshsutar. Celebrities, Politicians & their workers, pls do not intimidate journalists. @MumbaiPressClub strongly backs the fraternity. pic.twitter.com/T6Xf1kPWED
— Mumbai Press Club (@mumbaipressclub) September 18, 2020
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Kanhaiya Kumar's assets worth Rs 18 crore? Social media claim doesn't match nomination affidavit - Alt News
Jignesh Patel
20th May 2019 / 9:25 pm / Last updated: 20th May 2019
“साध्वी प्रज्ञा ठाकुर की कुल सम्पत्ति 4 लाख 50 हजार है. और बेरोजगार कन्हैया कुमार के पास 18 करोड़। ये 18 करोड़ आया कहाँ से ? (Sadhvi Pragya Thakur’s total assets are worth Rs 4.5 lakh and unemployed Kanhaiya Kumar has assets worth Rs 18 crore. Where did this 18 crore come from? -translated)”
The above message is being shared on social media. It is being claimed that CPI’s Begusarai candidate Kanhaiya Kumar, who even though unemployed, has accumulated assets worth Rs 18 crore while BJP’s Bhopal candidate Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has assets to the tune of Rs 4.5 lakh. The message takes a jibe at Kumar for supposedly accumulating a ludicrous amount of wealth with no employment and also questions the means by which it was harvested. This post shared by a Facebook page, I Love My India, has garnered more than 3,400 shares so far.
This message has been shared by several other individuals on Facebook and Twitter.
Alt News found that the claim about Kanhaiya Kumar having assets worth Rs 18 crore, is false, based on his nomination affidavit. In the affidavit filed for his nomination from Bihar’s Begusarai Lok Sabha constituency, Kumar had declared biannual income of Rs 8.5 lakh with assets over Rs 5.5 lakh. The figure stated in his affidavit is nowhere close to the exorbitant number cited in the social media claim. The information about a candidate’s total assets declared at the time of filing his nomination is easily available on MyNeta database. NDTV reported, “In his affidavit, the former student leader — a sedition case against whom had triggered student protests across the country – describes himself as an unemployed man who does some freelance writing and appears as a guest lecturer in various universities for a living. His income, he said, comes mostly from the sale of his book “Bihar to Tihar”.
Insofar as Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur’s nomination affidavit is concerned, she has declared assets close to Rs 4.5 lakh with zero income.
According to Kanhaiya Kumar’s nomination affidavit, the figure with regard to the assets owned by him is false. Based on this figure, the post attempted to question the transparency in Kumar’s public life and also raised doubts over the source of his supposed assets. Kanhaiya Kumar has often been found in the crosshairs of purveyors of misinformation. During the election campaign, a photo of Kumar’s campaign vehicle was photoshopped with the image of Afzal Guru, and a video of his speech was clipped to falsely claim that he said, “Hanuman burnt Lanka as another man’s wife was insulted”.
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Kanhaiya Kumar's campaign vehicle photoshopped with image of Afzal Guru - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
2nd May 2019 / 3:23 pm
A photograph of CPI Begusarai candidate Kanhaiya Kumar has been circulated on social media with Kumar purportedly campaigning behind a poster of 2001 Parliamentary attack convict, Afzal Guru.
A few Twitter users have shared the image, criticising Kumar.
The image in circulation has been lifted from the CPI candidate’s election campaign rally in Begusarai. In the original photograph, Kumar is not standing behind a portrait of Afzal Guru. A video of the rally, uploaded on Youtube, shows him standing behind the symbol of Communist Party of India.
As evident from the collage below, the image on the right represents Kumar’s rally, and CPI’s poster on the vehicle was photoshopped with an image of Afzal Guru.
Recently, Kanhaiya Kumar was also targeted using a video shared with a false narrative and a set of images posted in a misleading manner.
Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News.
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Kanhaiya Kumar's image morphed with map showing Indian states as part of Pakistan - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
22nd November 2019 / 7:25 pm
An image of CPI leader and former president of JNUSU Kanhaiya Kumar has been shared on social media. It shows the politician purportedly giving a speech in front of a map depicting Indian states as part of Pakistan. From the Facebook page ‘I am with narender modi – नरेंद्र मोदी’, the photograph has received close to 200 shares.
The accompanying message reads, “इस कुत्ते के पीछे भारत का नक्शा देखो यह जेएनयू में पलने वाला कुत्ता है भड़वा है और इस देशद्रोही को पलवल आने का न्योता दो इसका इलाज पलवल में ही संभव हो पाएगा (See India’s map behind this dog. This dog was bred in JNU. This anti-national and traitor should be given an invitation to Palwal. His treatment is only possible in Palwal.)”
Alt News has received verification requests for the image on its official mobile application.
The image has in fact been doing the rounds on social media since February but was mostly shared without a mention of JNU in the caption. “दोस्तों कन्हैया को न देखिये…इसके पीछे लगे हुये भारतवर्ष के मानचित्र को गौर से देखिये….और कुछ लोग कहते है कि कन्हैया मासूम है निर्दोष है (Friends, do not see Kanhaiya…look at India’s map behind him…and some people say that Kanhaiya is naive and innocent.)” – read a caption on the Facebook page ‘NARENDRA MODI MISSION 2024 OFFICAL’.
A simple reverse image search on Google leads one to the original photograph which does not show a distorted map of India. The background is plain. The Hindu had used the image in a 2015 article, crediting it to photographer Sandeep Saxena.
The photograph was shot during a presidential debate for the 2015 student elections in JNU. A video of the event shows Kumar in the same background, wearing the same clothes. In fact, the featured image of the video is the same as the viral photograph.
“The photo of Kanhaiya Kumar is taken by me during JNU’s (Jawaharlal Nehru University) 2015 presidential debate. The event happened in September and I was there covering it,” photographer Sandeep Saxena told AFP.
In the backdrop of the JNU student protest, an image of a former leader of the university was photoshopped and shared on social media. In the original image, Kanhaiya Kumar is not standing in front of a map that depicts several Indian states as a part of Pakistan. For other misinformation related to the protest, read this detailed fact-check by Alt News.
Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News.
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Kapil Mishra continues to mislead on 'Rupesh Baisoya murder case' - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
10th October 2018 / 3:31 pm / Last updated: 12th October 2018
“रूपेश बैसोया की हत्या करवाने वाला ड्रग माफ़िया गिरफ़्तार (The drug mafia who murdered Rupesh Baisoya is arrested),” tweeted Rebel AAP MLA Kapil Mishra on October 9, adding that the man detained for the murder of Delhi resident Rupesh Baisoya is ‘Bangladeshi.’
Breaking News – @free_thinker का “बांग्लादेशी मामा” गिरफ़्तार
इसे बचाने के लिए @AltNews ने मेरे खिलाफ झूठी ख़बर चलाई
रूपेश बैसोया की हत्या करवाने वाला ड्रग माफ़िया गिरफ़्तार
प्रतीक सिन्हा जैसे ड्रग माफ़िया को बचाने वाले लोग पत्रकारिता पर धब्बा हैं pic.twitter.com/Ra3A4WOUWp
— Kapil Mishra (@KapilMishra_IND) October 9, 2018
Mishra reiterated his claims despite an earlier Alt News fact-check which revealed that the ‘Bangladeshi’ narrative was baseless.
On September 30, Baisoya was shot dead outside his residence. Four days later, the police arrested three people in connection with the crime. The alleged perpetrators, Akash, Ajay and their accomplice Suraj are all residents of Delhi.
Kapil Mishra, however, has been making unsubstantiated allegations since the news of Baisoya’s murder was first reported. The police’s investigation and subsequent detention of the purported criminals have not deterred the MLA from backing his claims with disinformed tweets and boisterous rallies.
In his latest tweet, Mishra attached screengrabs of an India Today article titled – “Police arrest two drug peddlers accused of killing man in Delhi.” He affixed a screenshot of the first two paragraphs of the report which talk about the alleged drug peddlers Mohammed Farooq and Parul alias Khala. The latter, as claimed by the police, has since absconded.
If one reads through the India Today report, the first sentence of the article itself is in contradiction to its title. While the report says, “…two have been arrested for running the drug ring“, the headline says that two have been arrested for being accused in the murder.
A later paragraph in the article mentions those who were earlier arrested for Rupesh Baisoya’s murder. Their names (highlighted in the screenshot below) do not match with those held for possession of narcotics.
India Today conflicts its own reportage. However, even this article does not use the word ‘Bangladeshi’ to address the arrested drug peddlers.
In an October 7 press release, the Delhi police stated that Farooq confessed to being a Class 10 dropout and that he has been living in Taimoor Nagar since childhood. The police’s statement also does not refer to Farooq as Bangladeshi and neither does it portray any connection between his arrest and the murder of Rupesh Baisoya.
When Alt News spoke with DCP (South-East Delhi) Vijay Kumar, he informed that Farooq was arrested in a separate case by the narcotics division of Delhi Police.
The India Today report mentioned another person who was caught by the District Narcotics Squad in Taimoor Nagar – Abhijit Mukharjee. An October 6 press release by the Delhi police said that Mukharjee was also a Grade 10 drop out. This statement too does not portray a Bangladeshi connection either with the alleged drug ring or with Rupesh Baisoya’s murder.
Kapil Mishra had attached another screenshot with his tweet – a Times of India report titled “Delhi: Key player in Taimoor Nagar drugs trade nabbed with Rs 1 crore heroin”.
While Mishra attempted to link this report with the murder of Baisoya, the article has no mention of the latter. This report too does not address Farooq as Bangladeshi but mentions that locals were alleging the same.
An article by NDTV says that the Delhi police have been nabbing drug peddlers after locals began protesting an alleged racket. Baisoya’s murder had sparked the agitation.
The arrests, however, were not limited to Taimoor Nagar but spread across the city. An active drug peddler was arrested by the Narcotics Squad from Mianwali Nagar, Outer District. The accused Ravinder is a resident of Jwala Puri, Delhi, revealed the police press statement.
Kapil Mishra had initially posted a video of himself, both on Facebook and Twitter, making unsubstantiated claims that Rupesh Baisoya was murdered by Bangladeshi drug mafia. The video drew a combined view count of over 32,000. The MLA also held rallies in Taimoor Nagar propagating the ‘Bangladeshis were behind the murder’ narrative. No media report or police investigation has yet established a link between the two, however, Mishra continues to mislead citizens.
Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News.
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Kapil Sibal slapped outside court premises? No, he was accidentally hit by a microphone - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
5th January 2019 / 5:10 pm
कल राम मंदिर के फैसले के बाद कपिल सिब्बल को कोर्ट के बाहर किसी ने लपड़ा दिया मतलब 1 थप्पड़ जड़ दिया. इस घटना की पुष्टि करती हुई ये विडियो ऐसी खुश खबरी आपको मीडिया नहीं बताएगी (Yesterday after the verdict on Ram Mandir, somebody slapped Kapil Sibal outside the court. This video is proof. Media will not show you such wonderful news- translated). A video of Congress leader and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal has been shared widely on Facebook and Twitter along with the message that he was slapped outside the court premises when he was speaking to media persons.
The video varies in length from 9 seconds to 17 seconds, and Sibal can be seen grimacing in pain with his hand on his face.
कल राम मंदिर के फैसले के बाद कपिल सिब्बल को कोर्ट के बाहर किसी ने लपड़ा दिया मतलब 1 थप्पड़ जड़ दिया. इस घटना की पुष्टि करती हुई ये विडियो👇
ऐसी खुश खबरी आपको मीडिया नहीं बताएगी इसलिए Follow करे @rajanandbjp pic.twitter.com/qa7NCefbN0
— Raj anand 🇮🇳 (@rajanandbjp) January 5, 2019
The above tweet, posted in the morning of January 5, has garnered over 800 retweets. Several pro-BJP social media users have gleefully shared the video.
कपिल सिब्बल को कोर्ट के बाहर किसी ने थप्पड़ जड़ दिया।
Posted by Shivraj Singh Chouhan Fans Clube on Saturday, January 5, 2019
The above post is by a Facebook page Shivraj Singh Chouhan Fans Clube. Here, it has been viewed over 14000 times so far and shared over 500 times. The video has also been shared by another Facebook page Mission Modi 2019. It has also been posted on the group We Support Narendra Modi.
Alt News found that the first tweet with this claim was by a user Mamta Sharma. On Facebook, a user Manish Sharma was among the earliest to share it. The video has spread like wildfire on social media platforms with several pages, groups and individual users posting it.
A close look at the video reveals that Sibal was not slapped by anyone. He was in fact hit by a microphone held by one of the media persons assembled at the spot. Posted below is a slow motion version of the video.
It can be seen clearly in the above video that Sibal is accidentally hit on his face with a microphone. The exact frame in which this incident occurs is posted below.
A cursory glance is enough to suggest that there is no question of Sibal being slapped, but probably not so for those who have shared the video fervently.
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.
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Karnataka hijab row: Fake accounts pose as Mandya student Muskan Khan - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
14th February 2022 / 8:55 pm
Muskan Khan, a student of PES college in Mandya, made headlines after a video of her standing up against a saffron-clad mob heckling her for wearing a burqa surfaced on social media amid colleges in Karnataka barring students from wearing hijabs on the premises.
Several fake accounts have now cropped up on Twitter in Muskan’s name. Alt News is listing some of these imposter accounts in this report.
1. @musk_a_n
After journalist Mahmodul Hassan tweeted that the handle @musk_a_n is a fake account, the handle claimed that Hassan is “misleading” people and this is the official account of Muskan.
However, this handle’s earlier name and username were Aqsa Gul and @aqsa_gull2 respectively. A Twitter search of @aqsa_gull2 throws up tweets by @musk_a_n.
Below are screenshots of the same tweet made by @aqsa_gull2 and @musk_a_n.
2. @muskan_Khan_1
This account, in its pinned tweet, has made a post in Hindi that says, “I am rarely active on social media. But Insha’Allah I will be active in a few days and I will follow back everyone who follows me. Write #AllahuAkbar. Follow @muskan_Khan_1.”
However, in response to a user saying that the handle is fake, @muskan_Khan_1 replied, “A person’s name and profile are insignificant, it is their thought that matters.”
We found a tweet by @muskan_Khan_1 that showed its earlier username @Ta_b_1.
3. @muskankhan_0786
This imposter account had made a tweet that said, “Wearing #hijab is beauty of my personality. [sic]” It has also been thanking people for praising the real Muskan Khan.
The earlier username of this handle was @fatima_khan_72.
4. @FearlessTaru
While this account’s username does not carry Muskan’s name, it does say ‘Muskan Khan’ in the name and has also used her photo as the display picture.
We found a tweet where a person has asked one @Taru307Khan to follow him back and @tarufearless has replied to the user.
@Taru307Khan was the account’s earlier username. Searching for the username on Twitter throws up tweets by @FearlessTaru.
This is further confirmed by a tweet where a user is replying ‘Gn’ to @FearlessTaru. The original tweet was deleted by the user but we found an archived version where the response is actually to @Taru307Khan.
5. @RealMuskanKhan_, @mistertanvir and @MuskanKhanbibi
Journalist Mahmodul Hassan tweeted that Muskan Khan’s father Hussain Khan told him that his daughter does not have an account on Twitter. Hassan also jotted down names of some imposter accounts. Some of these no longer exist on Twitter but @MuskanKhanbibi does. We also found two other handles – @RealMuskanKhan_ and @mistertanvir – which are also imposter accounts.
Muskan’s father Hussain Khan confirmed she has no Twitter accounts. There are scores of fake Twitter accounts impersonating Muskan made slanderous and malevolent remarks.
List of Fake handles.@muskankhan_0786, @muskanind3467, @musk_a_n, @muskan1O, @MuskanKhanbibi.
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— Mahmodul Hassan (@mhassanism) February 12, 2022
Below are screenshots of the accounts.
This trend of creating imposter accounts in the name of individuals who gain sudden prominence is not new, yet there doesn’t seem to be any scrutiny by Twitter to stop such kind of disinformation.
Since Muskan Khan yelled back ‘Allah-hu-Akbar’ at a saffron-clad mob harassing her with chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’, several instances of disinformation are widespread in her name, including pictures of JDS member Njama Nazeer that were used to target Khan, a Congress MLA misidentified as Khan to show the hijab row is a ‘Congress conspiracy’ and the false claim that Dubai’s Burj Khalifa honoured her.
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Karnataka hijab row: JDS member Najma Nazeer's photos viral with misleading claims - Alt News
Archit
10th February 2022 / 12:33 am / Last updated: 10th February 2022
Several educational institutes in Karnataka have barred women who adorn a hijab from entering college premises on the account of not following the dress code. The matter is now sub judice in Karnataka High Court. Meanwhile, reports of violence have emerged from Karnataka. While Muslim students are protesting to demand their right to wear hijab, right-wing Hindu mobs have been holding counter protests.
In the backdrop of this, multiple images of a woman named Najma Nazeer have been shared on social media. The photos show her both with and without a hijab. Viral claims allege that Nazeer usually does not adorn a hijab but wears it to college to push an ‘agenda’.
Indian Air Force veteran and IIM Lucknow alumni Anoop Verma shared three images of Nazeer and made the claim. This tweet gained over 7,000 retweets.
She is Nazma Nazeer from Karnataka
She goes to Ice Cream Parlour & Pizza Shop without Hijab & Burqua
But in School, Agenda Must Run? pic.twitter.com/WoUeLMmuHM
— Flt Lt Anoop Verma (Retd.) 🇮🇳 (@FltLtAnoopVerma) February 8, 2022
Several Twitter and Facebook accounts have shared this claim. Using the social media monitoring tool, CrowdTangle, we found that at least 60 verified accounts posted this claim on Facebook and several of them are pro-Hindutva pages or groups.
The woman in the photos is Janta Dal (Secular) Karnataka member Najma Nazeer. She is not a college student. Nazeer became a social media personality two years ago after a video of her and her friends confronting Mahesh Vikram Hegde, founder of the fake news website Postcard News, and asking him to sing ‘Vande Mataram’ went viral.
Nazeer, 24, told Alt News that the viral images of her were taken at different time periods in the past eight years. The photo of her in hijab is her current display picture on Facebook.
“The viral social media post is misleading because it creates an impression that I am still in school or college. That is not true, I graduated in 2018,” she said.
Nazeer is a State Committee Observer at JDS Karnataka.
She also added, “I am in touch with the students who are protesting (against the hijab ban). However, to paint me as the face of the protest is a disservice to those who are leading this fight.”
A morphed image that shows Nazeer posing against a wall was shared by the Facebook page ‘Namma Tulunadu Troll’s’. It was later deleted but the graphic is circulating on WhatsApp. Twitter user @AmansurajGuru posted the graphic.
It was also shared by Gaurav Sharma, among other pictures of Nazeer.
Pic 1: Alleged Sherni In Burqa & Hijab
Pic 2: She is not part of Tukde Tukde Gang
Pic 3 & 4: Ofcourse she is not politically Motivated#HijabBan pic.twitter.com/5kcbfgDSyM
— Gaurav Mishra 🇮🇳 (@IamGmishra) February 9, 2022
Nazeem told Alt News, “This image is photoshopped. I reported this post on Facebook and it seems like they have taken it down.”
We performed a reverse image search and found a tweet by @beauty19smale that carries the original image. The tweet said that the woman photographed is Tanya Jena, a social media personality. Alt News performed a keyword search on Instagram and found that Jena had posted the image in 2019 on Instagram.
Pictures of JDS Karnataka member Najma Nazeer were, therefore, shared with misleading claims. Alt News had earlier debunked a claim that portrayed Nazeer as the student of PES college, Mandya who stood up against a saffron-clad mob heckling her for wearing a hijab.
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Karnataka hijab row: Muslim mob falsely accused of injuring female student in 'stone-pelting' - Alt News
Kalim Ahmed
9th February 2022 / 9:03 pm / Last updated: 9th February 2022
Violence has spread to several districts in Karnataka amid colleges prohibiting students to attend classes wearing hijabs and the government backing the ban. As Muslim students protest against the ban and Hindu students, several instigated by right-wing outfits, organise counter-protests, the violence has intensified.
After multiple videos depicting Hindu students heckling and harassing Muslims amid chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ came to light, a 27-second clip of a young woman in a half-conscious state being attended by a group of people has been shared online. It has been claimed that she was a “victim of stone-pelting clashes” that took place in Karanataka over the Hijab row.
The video is extremely viral on Twitter with various captions.
Leftists are showing you a video of girl student in niqab & boys students in saffron scarves and they’re shouting religious slogans to each other.
They won’t show you video of this girl student who injured in violence over hijab row.
Stone pelting, clashes reported in Karnataka pic.twitter.com/Eix3i3r4iZ
— Anshul Saxena (@AskAnshul) February 8, 2022
Several people have alleged that the young woman sustained injuries during stone-pelting by a Muslim mob.
One girl sustained injuries during stone penting by muslim mob in support of #Hijab in Karnataka today pic.twitter.com/yhnoJxH3Mj
— Live Adalat (@LiveAdalat) February 8, 2022
It has been claimed that she belongs to the Hindu community.
Since everyone is busy covering how a ‘M’ girl was allegedly heckled today .. no one will bother to cover what happened to ‘H’ girl when peacefuls were Stone pelting 😡 pic.twitter.com/wuSxPMGrGZ
— Vikas Chopra (@Pronamotweets) February 8, 2022
The video was also tweeted by right-wing propaganda media outlet Sudarshan News and OpIndia.
हिजाब के समर्थन में हुई पत्थरबाजी में घायल हुई छात्रा
हिजाब के समर्थन के नाम पर कर्नाटक को कश्मीर बनाने की कोशिश, बरसाए पत्थर ! pic.twitter.com/QoGZo7hy25
— Sudarshan News (@SudarshanNewsTV) February 8, 2022
A post shared by OpIndia (@opindia_com)
The video is viral on Facebook with the same claim.
The video is from a government college in Rabkavi Banhatti, a small town in Bagalkot city, Karnataka. According to journalists on the ground, the girl was unwell, exhausted and had nearly fainted after which she was carried out of the campus by people present in the vicinity.
Fact check : Viral video claiming this girl was injured following stone pelting over the #Hijab Row is false.
The girl was unwell, exhausted & nearly fainted after which she was helped out of the govt college campus in Bagalkot’s Rabkavi banhatti while protests ensued outside. pic.twitter.com/EBG9KVgFJX
— Deepak Bopanna (@dpkBopanna) February 9, 2022
We performed a Twitter keyword search to check for reports of stone-pelting in Banhatti and found that 10 people were arrested for pelting stones on cops and students at a government college. As per a report by The Hindu, a male student had sustained minor injuries when unidentified miscreants started pelting stones at the college.
#KarnatakaHijabRow 10 people have been arrested for pelting stones on cops and on students who were wearing #saffronshawls at govt college in Banhatti #Bagalkote. Charges are rioting, attempt to murder,disrupting peace. #Karnataka #HijabRow #hijab pic.twitter.com/GeieIBdqOJ
— Imran Khan (@KeypadGuerilla) February 9, 2022
Alt News spoke with the principal of the government college in Rabkavi Banhatti who told us that no students were injured within the campus. He further added that the college started at 7:30 am and she (the student in the viral video) was attending classes purportedly on an empty stomach. She fainted on the campus ground. The teacher present at the time informed the principal that she had fainted due to hunger and dehydration.
We also reached out to the SP of Bagalkot who told us that there was no stone-pelting at the girl. She was in her class and the college had declared a holiday due to the ongoing protests. She fainted as she was leaving possibly due to the overwhelming conditions on the campus, said the doctors to the police.
The video has thus, been shared with an anti-Muslim narrative. The student wasn’t injured in stone-pelting but fainted due to exhaustion, as stated by ground reporters and the principal of the college.
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Karnataka hijab row: Old video from Andhra shared as male protestor caught in burqa - Alt News
Kalim Ahmed
21st February 2022 / 6:22 pm
A video of a man dressed in a burqa caught by the police is being circulated on social media. The video has been shared with various captions by Naveen Kumar Jindal, media head of BJP Delhi, Prashant Umrao, spokesperson of BJP Uttar Pradesh, Suchitra Pathak Kakkar, state social media chief of BJP Mahila Morcha UP, among others. Kakkar claimed that the man was one of the protestors of the hijab ban caught in Karnataka.
The video is viral amidst the Hijab ban controversy that started at a PU college in Karanataka and has spread across the nation with various Hindu outfits demanding a ban on hijab within the campuses of educational institutions.
बुर्के का एक सच ये भी है… pic.twitter.com/OQcr2QorzQ
— Naveen Kumar Jindal 🇮🇳 (@naveenjindalbjp) February 20, 2022
हिजाब वह जादुई यंत्र है जो लड़की को लड़का बना देता है! pic.twitter.com/A15BMVowOa
— Prashant Umrao (@ippatel) February 20, 2022
ये तो अब्बा जब्बा डब्बा हो गया…
इधर बुर्का उतारोगे उधर लड़का निकलेगा…😆🤭
कर्नाटक में हिजाब के लिए प्रदर्शन करने वालों की गिरफ्तारी शुरू…#हिजाब_जिहाद pic.twitter.com/oGgSBgQXGp
— Suchitra Pathak Kakkar (@suchitrakakkar_) February 20, 2022
On WhatsApp, the video is viral with a caption that suggests that those protesting against the hijab ban in Karnataka are mostly men. Alt News has received multiple requests on its official WhatsApp helpline number (+91 76000 11160) and on its official mobile application (Android, iOS) to verify the authenticity of the video.
Journalist Rakesh Krishnan Simha tweeted the video with the same claim as the one viral on WhatsApp.
When Karnataka Police started arresting burqa agitators, 40% turned out to be men. This festering problem needs to be ended by banning the hijab, niqab, burqa and other clothes that are used to hide one’s identity. And these cheats must be punished so such acts are not repeated. pic.twitter.com/bGgw5AB3oj
— Rakesh Krishnan Simha (@ByRakeshSimha) February 20, 2022
The video has also been shared on WhatsApp with another claim that says that male “terror groups” wearing burqa have been arrested in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for throwing stones at the police. It is also viral on Facebook with the same caption as the one shared by Prashant Umrao.
We took the captions/claims on WhatsApp as a clue and performed a keyword search on Google. We found that the viral video is from 2020 when Andhra Pradesh police had arrested a few people including this burqa-clad man for smuggling alcohol.
A video report of this arrest can be found on the YouTube channel of ETV Andhra Pradesh. The description of the video reads that several people were arrested in Kurnool District for transferring illegal liquor under burqas.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFmCzzjU3-k]
The claim that 40% of the burqa-clad protestors arrested turned out to be men is also incorrect. We checked for various news reports but there were none talking about such arrests.
Alt News had previously debunked the video when it was viral with the claim that an RSS worker was caught dressed in a burqa and waving the Pakistani flag.
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Karnataka hijab row: Video doctored to show Burj Khalifa honours Muskan Khan - Alt News
Kalim Ahmed
12th February 2022 / 6:48 pm
The state of Karnataka has witnessed violent protests for the past several weeks due to several colleges barring hijab-wearing students from attending classes. As Muslim students protest against the ban, Hindu students, several instigated by right-wing outfits, have organised counter-protests which has led the violence to intensify.
Amidst these protests, a video from PES college in Mandya had recently gone viral where a group of men in saffron shawls tried to bully a Muslim student for wearing a burqa. The men approached her by shouting ‘Jai Shree Ram’ and attempted to stop her from entering the college but she yelled back ‘Allah-Hu-Akbar’ and stood her ground. The video of this confrontation quickly went viral and the young woman was later identified as Bibi Muskan Khan.
#KarnatakaHijabRow when a #hijabi student arrives at PES college in #Mandya. She gets heckled by students wearing #saffronshawls chanting #JaiSriRam. She raises her hand says “#AllahuAkbar befor being escorted by college staff. Video courtesy: Digvijaya News. #Karnataka pic.twitter.com/l17IL095Bv
— Imran Khan (@KeypadGuerilla) February 8, 2022
In the context of Muskan’s confrontation, a video is now in circulation that claims that the Burj Khalifa in Dubai was lit up to salute Muskan’s bravery. This video is extremely viral on Facebook. Alt News has received multiple requests on its official WhatsApp helpline number (+91 76000 11160) to verify the authenticity of this video.
We took a close look at the video and the first thing that came to our notice is the spelling of “Muskan”. In the viral video, the name has been misspelt as “Muskahan”. Had the Burj Khalifa actually lit up for Muskan, there is very less probability that the organisers would make a mistake this big.
Another observation that we made was the TikTok logo and the username @md.mahinkhan60. Almost all the videos shared had this username superimposed. Using this as a clue we looked for the original video on TikTok with the help of the TOR browser. The original video was of a higher resolution and one can immediately observe that the video has been doctored:
We also checked the official Twitter account of Burj Khalifa and found that the last time it was lit up for an occasion was during the Chinese New Year last month.
#BurjKhalifa welcomes the #ChineseNewYear! Catch the special LED and laser show dedicated to the Lunar New Year every evening till February 4th at 7:45 & 9:45 pm. pic.twitter.com/6osYiZZWFL
— Burj Khalifa (@BurjKhalifa) January 31, 2022
Hence, a doctored of the Burj Khalifa was shared on social media with the claim that the building was lit up to salute the bravery of Muskan, the young woman who stood up to the mob that tried to bully her for wearing the burqa.
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Misleading video of aerial survey used to target Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
21st August 2018 / 12:15 pm
“I wonder to understand why go on aerial survey when you all you want to do is read newspapers,” tweeted Balaji Srinivas, a user who describes himself as a “swayamsevak” and state convenor for BJP Karnataka social media cell in his twitter bio. He shared a video of Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy during an aerial survey of recent Karnataka floods where the CM can be seen reading a newspaper. Srinivas claimed that this is “all that Kumaraswamy did”. He also shared the video from his Facebook account, bringing the combined share count to over 9,000.
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. @CMofKarnataka @hd_kumaraswamy pic.twitter.com/6R400QWU1n
— Balaji Srinivas (@BuzzInBengaluru) August 19, 2018
Among the prominent individuals who retweeted Srinivas’ tweet was ANI editor Smita Prakash, ABP News editor Pankaj Jha and Sudarshan News CMD and editor-in-chief Suresh Chavhanke.
Even as Kerala is battling devastating floods, at least eight people have died in neighbouring Karnataka in a similar situation. CM Kumaraswamy conducted two aerial surveys in Kodagu, the worst-hit district in the state.
Several BJP members, including BJP MLA Shobha Karandlaje and former four-time BJP legislator C.T Ravi, also circulated the aerial survey video of Kumaraswamy, insinuating the Chief Minister’s nonchalance toward flood victims (1,2,3, 4).
It was also circulated by Twitter handle @DrGPradhan, who is followed by top BJP leaders, including the PM. His tweet was retweeted nearly 2,000 times.
As this was Kumaraswamy’s second survey that lasted for more than an hour, there are many other clips of him surveying flood-affected areas during the journey. However, one video was selectively circulated to mislead people.
Deccan Herald tweeted a video of the Chief Minister where he can be spotted surveying rain-hit Kodagu district.
#KarnatakaFloods | #ChiefMinister @hd_kumaraswamy conducting an aerial survey of rain hit #Kodagu district. #KodaguFloods #KodaguFloodRelief pic.twitter.com/j28fubLIEU
— Deccan Herald (@DeccanHerald) August 18, 2018
Another video of H.D. Kumaraswamy’s aerial survey was uploaded by Mirror Now journalist Atul Chaturvedi.
#KarnatakaFloods @rashtrapatibhvn Ramnath Kovind spoke to Karnataka CM @CMofKarnataka@hd_kumaraswamy
over flood condition in state… Also Kumarswamy conducted second aerial survey… pic.twitter.com/3EJxAXzFzX
— Atul Chaturvedi (@atulchaturvedii) August 19, 2018
In another video, when Kumaraswamy was en-route Madikeri district, personnel accompanying the CM can be heard saying that the chopper is four miles away and the weather ahead is turbulent.
Shameless politics ! Don just crop the full video nd post ! Cheap gimmick! Listen to the audio at last! They are stil 4 miles to madikeri! One should have common sense before posting it! Nd for ur knowledge newspaper thing is after boarding the copter! Cheap gimmick! pic.twitter.com/Y3Fl2bpfpL
— kiran jayaram (@kirandbit) August 19, 2018
ANI also tweeted a couple of images where he can be seen in the chopper, surveying flood-stricken lands.
Considering that the video of Kumaraswamy reading the newspaper was shot from within the helicopter, it was most likely taken by personnel accompanying the CM when they were en route to the destination. With other videos and imagery available in which the CM can be seen surveying flood-affected locations, the claims in the viral video are unsubstantiated and misleading.
Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News.
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Karti Chidambaram shares misleading photos to portray PM Modi’s beach cleaning effort as staged - Alt News
Pratik Sinha
13th October 2019 / 11:58 am / Last updated: 13th October 2019
On the sidelines of the Modi-Xi summit in Tamil Nadu, PM Modi tweeted a video of him picking up trash at the beach in Mamallapuram, and made an appeal to keep public places clean. Soon after the video was posted online, many people on social media alleged that the exercise was staged. Karti Chidambaram, an MP for Congress from Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu, tweeted a collage of three pictures, two of which showed PM Modi picking up trash, while the third picture showed multiple individuals with camera and lighting equipment. The attempt was to show that PM Modi’s act of cleaning the beach was essentially an exercise meant for the camera, and not genuine.
Jai Shree Ram! pic.twitter.com/tGrYcdxOXE
— Karti P Chidambaram (@KartiPC) October 12, 2019
A Twitter handle Rofl Republic (@i_theindian) also shared a set of photos to suggest that Modi’s beach cleaning exercise was a sham. One of the pictures tweeted by this handle was the same as the third picture tweeted as part of the collage by Chidambaram. At the time of writing, this tweet had garnered more than 1,300 retweets.
How PM Modi’s #Plogging scene was shot:
📌Security scans the entire beach
📌Plastic wastes are strategically placed
📌Camera crew gets ready
📌And the Oscar goes to… pic.twitter.com/IfPy5nK36g
— Rofl Republic (@i_theindian) October 12, 2019
Multiple twitter users copied the set of images and the message by @i_theindian and tweeted using their individual handles, as can be seen in the video below.
Individual images from the above collection have also been shared by social media users.
Using a reverse image search, we found that the first image is that of West Sands beach at St Andrews in Scotland, a popular filming location. The image is a cropped version of a picture taken from a website called tayscreen.com.
The second image is a five month old image of Kozhikode beach in Kerala. Modi addressed an election rally in Kozhikode on April 23, 2019, in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. The image shows the beach being scanned by a bomb squad in anticipation of PM’s visit. The image was published as part of an article on The Hindu.
Alt News was unable to locate the source of the third image where multiple young men can be seen with trash bags, which seems like a citizens’ beach cleaning activity. However, the other two images, one of which is from Scotland, and other from Kerala, make it clear that this was a deliberate attempt to mislead social media users by linking unrelated images to PM Modi’s beach cleaning video.
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Photo of Kashi Vishwanath Corridor viral as 'first image of Ram Temple in Ayodhya' - Alt News
Anuradha Prasad
3rd November 2020 / 1:53 pm
Recently, two images have been going viral on Twitter and Facebook. The photos feature a structure with scaffolding around it, purportedly showing the construction of a temple. The accompanying Hindi caption reads, “This is the first picture from the construction of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya. Shout Jai Shri Ram if this filled you with joy.” The tweet, posted by Sadhvi Priya Mishra, was liked more than 1000 times and had received over 240 retweets at the time of writing. (archive link)
(Translated from: अयोध्या प्रभु श्री राम जी की मंदिर निर्माण का पहला तस्वीर है। जिन को देखकर ख़ुशी हुई, तो एक बार सच्चे दिल से “जय श्री राम” बोल दे।)
अयोध्या प्रभु श्री राम जी की मंदिर निर्माण का पहला तस्वीर है।
जिन को देखकर ख़ुशी हुई, तो एक बार सच्चे दिल से “जय श्री राम” बोल दे। pic.twitter.com/1o3Mi7lmaY
— Sadhvi priya Mishra (@PriyaSadhvi) November 1, 2020
A verified Facebook page called ‘Gomata Gau Seva Trust’ also shared one of the images with the same caption, drawing over 6,000 likes. (archive link)
अयोध्या प्रभु श्री राम जी की मंदिर निर्माण का पहला तस्वीर है।
जिन भाईयों को देखकर ख़ुशी हुई, तो एक बार सच्चे दिल से आप #जय_श्री_राम बोल दे।।।
Posted by Gomata Gau Seva Trust on Saturday, 31 October 2020
It was also posted to the Facebook group ‘करणी सेना के साथ है तो इस ग्रुप को अभी join करे (Join Now if You Support the Karni Sena) where it received 200 shares (archive link). The photo made its way to a group called ‘अगले मुख्यमंत्री हनुमान जी बेनीवाल RLP’ (Next Chief Minister Hanuman Ji Beniwal RLP) (archive link).
Alt News also received a request to fact-check the image on our Whatsapp number (+91 76000 11160).
We performed a reverse image search and found a Hindustan Times report from October 30. It states that the construction shown here is taking place at Varanasi’s Kashi Vishwanath Corridor. The Prime Minister laid the foundation for the project on March 8, 2019. This expansion and beautification effort is slated to be completed by August 2021. The report mentions that a total of 24 buildings are to be built near the Kashi Vishwanath Ghat, out of which nine have been constructed. Dainik Jagran had also covered this in an October 27 story.
Therefore, online claims linking these viral images to Ayodhya’s Ram Temple are false. However, this is not the first time that fake news about the temple’s construction has been shared. For example, a clip of a Mumbai band performing at a folk music festival in Spain was falsely shared as a video of the India diaspora in the country celebrating the construction of Ram Mandir. In September, a picture of a temple in Hyderabad went viral as scenes from the Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pujan.
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Katta News: Who is breaking stories on Maha politics? Alt News source verification - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
26th November 2019 / 7:39 pm / Last updated: 26th November 2019
A new entrant on Twitter, breaking updates on Maharashtra politics, Katta News has garnered significant attention on social media. The Twitter handle @katta_news was created on November 18. Two days later, it broke the news of Ajit Pawar likely to split NCP and join hands with BJP to form government.
Serious & breaking: @AjitPawarSpeaks is ready split the party with 35 MLAs & may joint hand with @BJP4Maharashtra & form the government. @PawarSpeaks having tough time to convince his nephew @AjitPawarSpeaks so meeting Modi to not to entertain @AjitPawarSpeaks
— KattaNews (@katta_news) November 20, 2019
Three days hence, Devendra Fadnavis took oath as the CM of Maharashtra with Ajit Pawar as his second in command. Several prominent personalities and journalists on Twitter commended the portal’s reporting on Maharashtra politics.
My compliments to @katta_news for this newsbreak of the day.
This is what journalism must do: bringing to light something that someone in power would like to keep in dark. https://t.co/jLrZlkP5JZ
— Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) November 25, 2019
Wow. Not everyone was clueless. @Katta_News had the story 3 days ago! 👇🏾 https://t.co/YdHimYho3T
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) November 23, 2019
The only one with all the right information on the Maharashtra shenanigans has been @katta_news and @ss_suryawanshi throughout. Must follow.
— Rohini Singh (@rohini_sgh) November 26, 2019
On November 24, Katta News broke another story – “anti-corruption bureau gives a clean chit to Ajit Pawar who was allegedly involved in a Rs 70,000 crore irrigation scam.” Moments later, the media jumped on the news. ANI tweeted that the cases closed were conditional and could be reopened.
The person behind the newly-formed platform is Mumbai-based journalist Sudhir Suryawanshi who was working with DNA before its print edition was shut down in early October due to financial constraints. In a conversation with Alt News Suryawavanshi said, “The idea had been lingering in my mind after DNA was closed down. There is no future for print. This sector has been dying slowly so I decided that rather than continuing in print as a media, why can’t we start our portal or website?”
The Marathi word ‘Katta’ means a gathering of people in common places in the evening or during leisure time when they discuss news from around the world, their country and village. “It basically means generating information in one place. Therefore I thought ‘Katta’ would be the best name to give to the portal,” explained Suryawanshi, a journalist whose career spans across 15 years of reporting on agriculture, housing and real estate. His domain, however, is politics.
Suryawanshi had recently penned an opinion piece on Hindustan Times on Shiv Sena-BJP split in Maharashtra. He has also written for Zee News, the parent organisation of DNA and Mumbai Mirror. One of the most prominent stories he had broken while working with Mumbai Mirror was the enormous electricity bill – Rs 70 lakh – generated in the first month after Mukesh Ambani moved in his Mumbai residence Antilia.
“Breaking stories was not the issue. The problem was a lack of platform. I first started Katta News as a blog and received good response. However, I was advised by many people that I should start my own website. Since setting up a website takes time, I decided to tweet the information that I was able to derive through my sources and contacts.,” said Suryawanshi. “Katta News was the first to report on November 20 that Ajit Pawar is likely to split from the NCP. No one believed the news at the time. Many NCP leaders also called and told me that this was false but I stood firm on my reporting and it turned out to be true. I believe in my sources.”
Katta News is currently a one-man show but Suryawanshi is hopeful that he will be able to expand the outlet in Maharashtra. “The motive is to give credible and reliable information because nowadays people are losing trust in mainstream media. There have been instances when mainstream media has churned false news or speculations and rumours,” he said.
Strongly believing that digital media is the future, Sudhir Suryawanshi intends to develop the website on politics, agriculture, real estate, housing and socio-economic issues concerning Maharashtra.
[This article is a brief profile of Katta News and is not an endorsement of either the portal or its founder. The article is a part of Alt News’s ‘Source Verification’ series wherein we will help our audience find the faces behind certain Twitter handles, Facebook pages and news websites.]
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Kerala BJP Leader K Surendran uses a fake cow slaughter photo while raising the issue of beef festivals - Alt News
Pratik Sinha
29th May 2017 / 10:00 pm
Earlier today, Senior BJP Leader from Kerala K Surendran posted a photo of slaughtered cows on his official Facebook Page. In his post, he claimed that cattle was being slaughtered in public places in Kerala. The picture that he posted shows 5-6 dead cows on a sidewalk in a market place. Some people can be seen in the background and the shutters of all the shops are pulled down. Following is the complete text of Mr K Surendran’s post.
Rough Translation: The State Government should immediately take steps to stop the beef festivals being organised across the state by youth organisations of the left and the congress and some terrorist organisations. The beef being distributed in these festivals are not being bought from legal meat shops. In many places, the festivals are being conducted by illegal slaughtering of the cattle in public. Many of these events are aimed at inciting tension. Anti-social elements and terrorists are making use of this situation. Lakhs of devotees are pained because the Dewaswom Minister (who is in charge of temples) himself was seen publicly consuming beef. Ministers and responsible social workers should stay away from such horrific protest movements. Everyone is free to hold protests. But, it is better that people desist from participating in protests which will cause ill-will among the public. We request everyone connected with this not to drag the nationalistic organisations into countering this.
Original text: സംസ്ഥാനത്ത് വിവിധ പ്രദേശങ്ങളിൽ ഇടതുവലതു യുവജനസംഘടനകളും മതതീവ്രവാദസംഘടനകളും നടത്തുന്ന ബീഫ് മേളകൾ തടയാൻ സംസ്ഥാനസർക്കാർ അടിയന്തിര നടപടി സ്വീകരിക്കണം. ബീഫ് മേളകളിൽ വിതരണം ചെയ്യുന്ന മാംസം പലതും അംഗീകൃത ഇറച്ചിക്കടകളിൽ നിന്ന് വാങ്ങുന്നതല്ല. പലയിടത്തും പൊതുസ്ഥലത്ത് നിയമം ലംഘിച്ച് കശാപ്പു നടത്തിയാണ് മേളകൾ നടത്തുന്നത്. ജനങ്ങളിൽ ഭീതിയുളവാക്കുന്നതും അരോചകമായ നിലയിലുമാണ് കാര്യങ്ങൾ പോകുന്നത്. പ്രകോപനപരമാണ് പല പരിപാടികളും. സാമൂഹ്യവിരുദ്ധരും തീവ്രവാദികളും അവസരം മുതലെടുക്കുന്നു. ദേവസ്വം വകുപ്പ് മന്ത്രി തന്നെ പരസ്യമായി ഗോമാംസം ഭക്ഷിക്കുന്നത് ലക്ഷക്കണക്കിന് വിശ്വാസികളെ വേദനിപ്പിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു. മന്ത്രിമാരും ഉത്തരവാദപ്പെട്ട പൊതുപ്രവർത്തകരും ഇത്തരം ഭീഭൽസമായ സമരപരിപാടികളിൽ നിന്ന് വിട്ടുനിൽക്കണം. പ്രചാരണവും സമരപരിപാടികളും ആർക്കുമാവാം. എന്നാൽ ജനങ്ങളിൽ അവമതിപ്പുളവാക്കുന്ന ആഭാസസമരങ്ങളിൽ നിന്ന് ഉത്തരവാദപ്പെട്ടവർ പിന്മാറുന്നതാണ് എല്ലാവർക്കും നല്ലത്. തിരിച്ചുള്ള പ്രകോപനങ്ങളിലേക്ക് ദേശീയപ്രസ്ഥാനങ്ങളെ മനപ്പൂർവം വലിച്ചിഴക്കരുതെന്ന് ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട എല്ലാവരോടും അഭ്യർത്ഥിക്കുന്നു.
The issue of public slaughter became big after members of Kerala Youth Congress slaughtered a cow publicly to protest against the new beef ban rules by the Union Govt. This act was condemned by many including the Vice President of Congress himself.
One can agree with Mr K Surendran in principle that animals shouldn’t be slaughtered publicly and the required safety norms should always be followed. However, in the present case, the photo used by Mr K Surendran is an age old photo and has got nothing to do with the wide-spread protests in Kerala against the Union Govt’s diktat. This photo has been used with misleading captions many times over in the past few years. For eg, one Subhasis Chakravarty posted this photo on 28 Oct 2011 on the Google Plus platform with the caption “COW slaughter in UP under the license of PRINCESS MAYAWATI , this way , in the open“.
A higher resolution picture of the dead cows can be seen here. As the commentator Krish Datta points out in the above image, the language on the boards above the shops is Bengali. With all the shutters down, it would seem like the shops are shut for a festival. These two facts combined would indicate that these could be Eid celebrations either in West Bengal or Bangladesh. Had cows been slaughtered in such a fashion in West Bengal, it surely would have been covered in main stream media. However, no such news report was found in main stream media about such an incident in West Bengal. Most likely, this image is from Bangladesh. This image has been in circulation since before 2009 as can be seen in this WordPress blog.
All the above facts would prove beyond doubt that Mr K Surendran was in fact circulating an extremely old picture which is completely unrelated to the protests happening in Kerala. While BJP cadre has been caught time and again circulating such misleading pictures, at least senior BJP leaders should do the due diligence and avoid spreading rumours via their social media account which have a sizeable following.
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29th May 2017 / 10:00 pm
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Kerala cop falsely claimed to be CPM worker inciting violence at Sabarimala - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
26th October 2018 / 5:48 pm
“Meet this active CPM cadre Vallabh Das from Trivandrum. He’s not even recruited in Kerala Police, still this goon was in Police uniform trying to attack innocent #Ayyappa devotees at #Shabarimalai protest during the past five days..😡 @rsprasad” A photograph of a person in a police uniform is being circulated on social media, with the claim that the person is a CPI(M) party member masquerading as a cop, who had assaulted devotees of lord Ayappa who had gathered during the Sabarimala protests that had rocked the state ever since the Supreme Court verdict allowing women entry into the temple.
The above tweet on October 24 by a social media user Sanjib Ghosh has been retweeted close to 2000 times. According to these tweets, the person in the picture is Vallabh Das, a CPM worker. Some users raised suspicion over the person’s hairstyle, claiming that police personnel cannot have this type of hairdo.
The above tweet by J.Nandakumar, an RSS leader was retweeted almost 2700 times. Numerous Twitter users have tweeted this photograph along with identical text.
The person seen in the photograph claimed to be a CPM worker dressed as a policeman, is indeed a policeman and not a political worker. This has been confirmed by the Kerala police via a Facebook post clarifying that the person in question is a policeman with the KAP fifth battalion stationed at Sabarimala. Kerala police has appealed to social media users to beware of fake propaganda.
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Posted by Kerala Police on Thursday, October 25, 2018
Posted below are some photographs of the police personnel, who has been identified as Aashiq.
Sabarimala has become a flashpoint ever since the Supreme Court verdict directing the temple authorities to allow women entry into the temple. The issue has taken a political turn, particularly on social media, with the Kerala government and the police being targeted through the use of old and/or unrelated images and false claims.
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.
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26th October 2018 / 5:48 pm
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Kerala man assaulting child in viral clip is a Muslim, contrary claims on social media are false - Alt News
Mahaprajna Nayak
22nd November 2022 / 5:02 pm
The CCTV footage of a man violently flinging a child on the ground has created an uproar on social media. News reports mentioned that the reason for the man’s behaviour was still unclear and the girl had been sent for a medical examination.
Several social media users, mostly from abroad, shared the video and claimed the man in the video was a Hindu.
Twitter handle @islamalghamry66 from Turkey also shared the video. The caption can be translated as: God is enough for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs. In the Indian state of Kerala, an extremist Hindu brutally beats a 9-year-old Indian Muslim girl just because she is on her way to an Islamic school!!
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل.. في ولاية كيرالا الهندية
هندوسي متطرف يضرب بوحشية طفلة هندية مسلمة (٩ أعوام) لمجرد أنها في طريقها لمدرستها الإسلامية !!#الهند #نصرة_مسلمي_الهند #تداعي_الأمم #مقاطعة_المنتجات_الهندية#IndianMuslimsUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/hirzEUD7W9
— اسلام الغمري (@islamalghamry66) November 18, 2022
Another user, @Fnyees, shared the video with the same claim adding how discrimination against Muslims in India was growing under the present regime.
الهند توغل في العنصريه والتمييز ضد المسلمين وللأسف الأمر يتزايد بدعم من جهه الحكومه الهنديه دون توقف او تصدي لهذا الجنون والتخلف
في ولاية كيرالا الهندية
هندوسي متطرف يضرب بوحشية طفلة هندية مسلمة (٩ أعوام) لمجرد أنها في طريقها لمدرستها الإسلامية !! pic.twitter.com/mbQ7g0NbbW
— د.فنيس العجمي (@Fnyees) November 18, 2022
We noticed that India Today reported that the accused was named Abubakar Siddique and he had been arrested by the Kerala police. The footage tweeted by the media outlet had ‘Kasargod, Kerala’ mentioned on top left corner.
Alt News reached out Kasargod police for a confirmation, who asked us to contact the Manjeshwar police station. We then spoke to inspector Santhosh Kumar of Manjeshwar police station in Kasargod, who confirmed that the incident had taken place on November 17, around 8 am., and the accused, Abubakar Siddique, had been arrested and sent to judicial remand for 14 days. According to police, he has been charged under IPC section 307 (attempt to murder), 323 (for voluntarily causing hurt), IPC section 364 (abduction with the intent of murder) and sections 9 and 10 of the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act. The police mentioned that the man claimed he was smoking at a shop nearby and reacted violently upon being provoked by the girl. However they are unsure of the claims.
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22nd November 2022 / 5:02 pm
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Kerala MP MB Rajesh to Arnab Goswami in an open letter - Most unethical journalist I have ever seen - Alt News
Alt News Desk
30th May 2017 / 4:24 pm / Last updated: 12th July 2018
A clip from Republic TV’s show in which MB Rajesh participated can be seen below.
The full text of Mr MB Rajesh’s letter is reproduced here.
അർണാബ് ഗോസ്വാമിക്ക് അയച്ച കത്തു ഇവിടെ എല്ലാവർക്കുമായി പങ്കുവെക്കുന്നു. (An open letter to Arnab Goswamy).
28-05-2017
Mr. Arnab Gowswamy,
I am writing this open letter regarding the show on 26.05.2017 at 10PM in which I too was a participant. During the course of that show you arrogantly told me “I have handled bigger leaders than you”. Perhaps that was the only truth you said in that entire show. This one sentence alone is enough to show your ego, arrogance and pettiness. I have never claimed that I am a big leader. Just as you have handled much bigger leaders than me, I have had the privilege of talking to anchors who are honest, gentle, decent, civilized and knowledgeable than you. You have every right to imagine that you have a larger than life image. But my impression about you is that you are not only biased and prejudiced but also that you lack substance, integrity, credibility and even confidence as a journalist. I am sure that you are well aware of your weaknesses and I have always felt that the screams and outbursts you often make are your frustrated attempts to cover up the confidence deficit.
You are the most unethical journalist I have ever seen. On 26.05.2017 I got a call from your channel requesting my time for a debate (!) “On Three Years of Modi Government” between 10 to 10.15PM. When I reached Asianet (with whom you have a tie up) studio as directed by your person by around 9.50 I saw Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad on screen and came to know that the discussion on Modi Government was about to conclude. Then I immediately asked the Asianet employees in Palakkad Studio to reconfirm the topic for which I had been invited. Aravind, an Asianet employee contacted your channel in my presence and reconfirmed the topic as ‘3 Years of Modi Government’. Then suddenly I came to know on air that you have changed the topic to the alleged “Kodiyeri’s Speech Against Army”. I could have boycotted the show at that moment but I chose to remain because in my absence you may repeatedly scream the lie that I ran away from the show. I wanted to avoid such a situation and tried to present my views on the fabricated story.
Whatever little time I got in between your uncivilized outbursts I repeatedly countered your biased statements that Com. Kodiyeri insulted Indian Army. I said that not a single TV Channel in Kerala including your own Asianet have taken this up as a topic of debate and this was not at all controversy in Kerala because everybody knew that his comments were only against the atrocities committed in the name of AFSPA and not against the army. Still you continued your accusations against the CPI(M) as part of your prepared screenplay. I drew your attention to the Supreme Court Order on 27.04.2016 to investigate all the 1528 murders in Manipur done by security forces under the AFSPA. You ignored that inconvenient fact, probably because you might not have keenly observed such issues related to AFSPA. (After all the sort of journalism, anchoring in your case, which depends more on the ability to make as much noise as possible does not require careful reading, updation, thorough knowledge of the topic and keen observation. People like you can survive with your voice alone and without your brain.) Then you, like a coward, safely surrounded by a Sangh brigade continued spitting venomous lies against CPI(M) without even giving me an opportunity to intervene. Despite my repeated statements that we have never insulted the Indian Army you deliberately put the subtitle “Against Army” with my picture on the screen. This can only be seen as the dirty act of a loyal servant to appease your immediate boss Rajeev Chandrasekhar and your ultimate masters the Sangh Parivar.
It was evident from your substandard and abusive remarks against the CPI(M) that your sense of history is poorer than that of a primary school child. Your teacher of history in school would have been much ashamed to see the shameless and naive expression of your ignorance on history. If you wish to learn the role of the communists in the Indian freedom struggle, I can suggest some pamphlets used for beginners because you may not be able to digest any serious work of history. When I told you that it is not the communists but VD Savarkar who betrayed the freedom struggle by sending repeated clemency petitions to the British Government it appeared as if you were hearing about it for the first time in your life. I can send the copies of those clemency petitions for your kind perusal so that the next time you can be better prepared to defend your ‘patriotic’ Hindutva masters. You can also think of arranging a tuition to help you in acquiring some basic facts about our history.
Any way, if you work hard to overcome your deficiencies you may be able to improve your understanding of various topics to some extent. But I am not sure, whether at this age you will be able to develop the basic norms of conduct, culture and civilized behavior. Many of these qualities owe much to the manner in which we were brought up in our childhood.
Here I must tell you that to me, the army is not simply a newsroom experience. I was born in a military hospital and my entire childhood was spent in an army environment. Arnab, I am the proud son of a father who served in the Indian army for long years. He fought in the 1971 war as well. As the ward of a veteran, I’ve also partaken in the sacrificial living of an army family, like several others. Now, tell me, apart from your highly hypocritic and extremely dramatic expressions in the name of army, only to raise ratings, what have you genuinely done for our army?
My last piece of suggestion to you, the self proclaimed ambassador of the army, is to find time to watch the recording of your “performances” at least once. Then you will realise how disgusting it is and will definitely search for some other career options. Till you find time to do that we will have no other option but to bear with the high levels of pollution created by your senseless utterances.
I dare to write this to you because neither am I a big leader as you rightly said, nor do I wish to become one. My best wishes and regards
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Sabrimala: BJP's K Surendran falsely claims woman injured due to Kerala police brutality - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
18th October 2018 / 8:38 pm / Last updated: 15th March 2019
“Kerala CM Mr. @vijayanpinarayi, just remember you are an elected CM. You have the responsibility to take everyone into account and act accordingly. In Sabarimala issue, you are ignoring the majority feelings, brutally attacking our mothers using your power @cpimspeak @CMOKerala.” This message is by K. Surendran, General Secretary of Kerala BJP, who has targeted Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan over the manner in which the state police has handled the protests over the Sabarimala issue. Along with the message, Surendran has tweeted a photograph of a woman lying injured on the ground.
Kerala CM Mr. @vijayanpinarayi, just remember you are an elected CM. You have the responsibility to take everyone into account and act accordingly. In Sabarimala issue, you are ignoring the majority feelings, brutally attacking our mothers using your power @cpimspeak @CMOKerala pic.twitter.com/Srho66krj2
— K Surendran (@surendranbjp) October 17, 2018
Surendran’s tweet of October 17 has been retweeted over 150 times. The photograph has been shared widely with the allegation that the Kerala police has resorted to heavy use of force, not even sparing women.
Pic1 -Resmi Nair, An Atheist & Leading Left voice who got arrested for running #SexRacket is being lined up by @CPIMKerala to enter #Sabarimala
Pic2 -An unknown Mother, a devotee of #Ayyappa, brutally beaten by #KeralaPolice while conducting a peaceful protest
End of Communism? pic.twitter.com/LUnorVUgVt
— നചികേതസ് (@nach1keta) October 18, 2018
The woman shown in the picture lying injured was NOT attacked by Kerala police. This becomes obvious once the footage of the incident is seen.
As can be seen in the video, the woman wearing a red blouse and cream-coloured saree appears to be hit by a stone on her head, following which she collapses on the ground. No policeman can be seen anywhere close to the woman when she fell to the ground. The sequence of events is shown below.
Manorama News and Asianet News have reported that the woman was injured due to stone-pelting and not due to heavy-handedness by the police as alleged by K.Surendran.
Kerala has often been at the centre of misinformation/disinformation by vested interests seeking political gain in the state. In another instance, an old, unrelated photograph was used on social media to project ‘brutality on Hindus’ by Kerala police in the wake of the Sabarimala protests which have rocked the state. Some days back it was the same story- old images used to mislead social media users.
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.
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Kerala RSS/BJP’s “Love Jihad Help Desk” – Secret chats leaked - Alt News
Alt News Desk
17th February 2017 / 5:57 pm / Last updated: 12th July 2018
The chats also reveal infighting between the various sangh activists. One Mr.Jayakanthan is criticised for his facebook posts criticising Modi for his favours to corporates like Ambani and Adani. There are also discussions on how some mad RSS men are giving all of them a bad image by their actions. They also discuss about “moles” in the group and on the need for an even more secretive group for confidential discussions. Another discussion is on an online campaign to create a propaganda that the sanghis are being hounded by the left in Kerala.
(Many of the dialogues are in English. We have given english translations for a few Malayalam lines)
Images courtesy – http://www.eyewitnesnews.in/secretgrouprss/#sthash.HGUGJfeN.5BKsQF2c.dpbs
Update –
Dhanya Raman has now put up an FB post of a complaint that she has lodged with the range IG regarding the report. In the cleverly worded letter, she does not even mention the name of the group – Love Jihad Help Desk- or say that the posts are fake or that she was not a member. She just talks about death threats against her and news items published to tarnish her image.
However, soon after she put up this post, her lies were exposed in the comments section, when people put up screenshots of the list of members of the Love Jihad group. It clearly showed that dhanya.raman was a member of the group. This is a unique name code which no one else shares. Also, there is no fake account of Dhanya raman in facebook with the same profile picture.
The fact that these screenshots were genuine, were confirmed by Rahul Easwar in a facebook post , which asked readers to see how all his comments in the group were moderate, and not communal in nature. So, it is confirmed that such a group exists and these people were part of it.
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Khalistan supporters gatecrashing Congress event in London resurfaces with false claim - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
20th February 2019 / 9:57 pm
Recently, a video is being circulated on social media with the claim that the Congress let in Khalistan protesters at their event where the separatists chanted anti-India slogans. Several individual users have shared the clip, including Gaurav Pradhan who has often been found sharing misleading posts from his social media accounts. He circulated the clip where Khalistan supporters can be heard allegedly saying, “Congress Zindabad, Hindustan Murdabad”. Pradhan questions if Rahul Gandhi and Congress are “Pakistanis”.
That Congress let Khalistan supporters chant anti-India slogans at Rahul Gandhi’s event in London is a piece of misinformation that resurfaces every few months. Alt News has debunked the fake news twice (1, 2) in the past when BJP office bearers also circulated it.
Sikh separatists didn’t merely “arrive” at Rahul Gandhi’s event but gatecrashed it. The claims on social media misleadingly suggest that the Congress supported the protesters.
According to Naomi Canton, who reports for Times of India in the UK, the event was interrupted by four protesters who had “managed to evade heavy security to enter Rahul Gandhi’s event…”.
TOI speaks to the Khalistani intruders who gatecrashed Rahul’s event https://t.co/Eq44dogy6C
— Naomi Canton (@naomi2009) August 27, 2018
Speaking to TOI, Shamsher Singh, spokesperson for the National Sikh Youth Federation who had gatecrashed the event with three of his associates said, “We slipped in through a side door to the venue at 5.30pm as the security was lax. Once inside, security asked us a few questions but we confidently walked through and said we are here for the event. We got a table and sat down.”
Furthermore, television news channels reported that slogans hailing the Congress party were chanted in response to the slogans raised by the Sikh separatists who had gatecrashed the event.
The clip is viral on both Facebook and Twitter with similar claims.
From what it seems, it is also being circulated on WhatsApp.
Whatsapp fwd.. @ndtv plz story this n tell us if this is true or not?
Khalistan terrorists arrive at Rahul Gandhi’s meeting in London …With the slogans…. Congress party Zindabad and Hindustan Muradabad. pic.twitter.com/Uas0k27OI6
— Jb (@jayeshkbh) February 18, 2019
The aftermath of the Pulwama attack has witnessed a surge in misinformation where non-BJP parties have been targeted (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) to show them as sympathizers of terrorism.
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We have killed many political opponents in the past, says BJP Kerala General Secretary K.Surendran - Alt News
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24th February 2017 / 9:49 pm / Last updated: 12th July 2018
In a speech revealing the BJP’s gameplan of organised violence and killings of rival political party members, Kerala BJP General Secretary K.Surendran said that they have attacked and killed opponents in the past, but have stopped it for the time being. But the Sangh will stop CPI(M) leaders wherever they go, he said.
The speech is seen as a direct threat to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is scheduled to visit Mangalore to take part in an event to promote religious amity. The Sangh Parivar organisations have said that they will stop him from attending the rally. They have also declared a strike in Mangalore on Sunday to protest against his visit.
Speaking at an event organised by the BJP in Mangalore on Friday, Mr.Surendran said that the Sangh will not spare the CPI(M) leaders.
“Even when we had 2 percent vote share, we had committed murders in retaliation, when one was murdered. We have stopped all that for now. But we will not spare the CPI(M) leaders. Wherever you go outside Kerala, we will be there to stop you. Whether you go to Andhra Pradesh, or Madhya Pradesh or Delhi or Mangalore, we will be there to stop you,” he said.
A short video of the speech is available here-
Kerala BJP Leader K Surendran confessing that BJP has killed many in Kerala.
Hi #KeralaPolice#OruKolaCaseEdukkuvo ? pic.twitter.com/gZqHD1K0Rz
— Arun M Advaid (@Advaidism) February 24, 2017
The BJP activists have over the past few days unleashed violence aimed at CPI(M). An area committee office has been burned down and posters and banners of the event with the photographs of the CM have been vandalised.
The Karnataka Government has promised all security for the smooth conduct of the event. Mangalore has been a hotbed of Hindutva extremism. It is being treated as a laboratory by the Sangh Parivar and it has succeeded to an extent in driving a wedge between the Hindu and Muslim communities through their sustained activities, including riots, vandalism and threats. The rally on Sunday organised by left activists is an attempt at improving the atmosphere in the region.
In December, Vijayan was forced to abandon a felicitation programme in Bhopal after security threats over RSS protests.
In January, he was again forced to cut short a trip to Delhi over intelligence reports, which said that a RSS protest march to where he was staying could turn violent.
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Killing of one Abu Syed in Bangladesh shared 37000+ times on FB as a Hindu killed by Muslims in West Bengal - Alt News
Pratik Sinha
15th April 2017 / 2:38 pm
On April 1st, unknown assailants killed Abu Syed & seriously injured Md Ali, two men who were wanted for the murder of Awami League leader Monir Hossain Sarkar. This incident happened in Titas subdivision of Coomilla district in Bangladesh. The issue was also covered by the local news website called Coomilla-r-Kagoj which translates to “Coomilla’s Newspaper”.
The video of the incident was uploaded by a Bangladeshi resident to Youtube on April 2nd.
This video is now being circulated by the right-wingers as a Hindu being killed in West Bengal by Muslims. At the time of writing, a cock and bull post by one Ghanshyam Jangid has been already shared over 37000 times on Facebook. This same video is also viral as a Hindu killed in Nawada, Bihar, and we wrote about this yesterday.
#सेक्युलरताकानंगानाँच
वाह री गन्दी मीडिया : राजस्थान में मुस्लिम मारा तो “हिन्दू आतंकवाद”, पश्चिम बंगाल में हिन्दू मरा तो “खबर भी नहीं”
इस वीडियो को कोई मीडिया नहीं दिखाएगी…ना ही काँग्रेस विपक्ष संसद सड़क पर हंगामा करेंगे..
40 गायों को काटने के लिए ले जाते गौ हत्यारे की हत्या पर संसद में कांग्रेसी और विपक्ष के सभी सांसद छाती
कूट रहे हैं …उनके लिए यह देश खतरे में पड़ गया है,,
अगर इस देश में गौ हत्या निषेध कानून लागू है फिर भी गाय काट रहे हैं और यदि हिंदू भड़क कर उन्हें मार रहे हैं तो इसमें हिंदुओं का ज्यादा दोष है या उन का जो संविधान और हिन्दू भावनाओ के खिलाफ काम कर रहे है?? क्यों किसी की धार्मिक भावनाओं को तुम भड़काते हो
चुपचाप हिजड़ों की तरह खामोशी से बैठे रहें,
English translation:
#TheNakedDanceOfSecularism
Hail the unjust media: If a Muslim is killed in Rajasthan, it is “Hindu terrorism”, if a Hindu is killed in West Bengal, it is not even covered?
No media channel will show this video.. neither will the Congress party in opposition come on the roads to protest this.
For the murder of those men who were carrying 40 cows for the purpose of slaughtering, Congress and other opposition MPs went to the town chest beating..Based on this incident, they declared that the National integrity is in danger..
In this country where cow slaughter is declared illegal, and even then cows are being cut, then if Hindus get enraged and kill the people who are slaughtering cows then should the Hindus be blamed for this or should those people be blamed who are being unconstitutional and are hurting Hindu sentiments? What is the need to incite our religious feelings?
Continue your silence and keep acting like a Hijra (transgender)..
This post is referring to the mob lynching of 55-year-old Pehlu Khan in Alwar by Gau Rakshaks. The post lies blatantly about 40 cows being transported for the sake of slaughter. As reported by Huffington Post, Pehlu Khan was a dairy farmer who had made a last minute decision of buying a milch cow instead of a milch buffalo at a cattle fair because the cow produced more milk and they had a valid receipt for the purchase of the cow. Other dairy farmers in Pehlu Khan’s village Jaisinghpur confirmed that he indeed used to sell milk for a living.
What is happening here is that to cover up the ghastly murder of Pehlu Khan in Alwar, the right-wingers are not only propagating complete falsehoods regarding the incident itself, they also want to justify the murder of Pehlu Khan by showing a fake video of a Hindu being killed in West Bengal and cry wolf as to how no one is talking about it. The video that was shared by Ghanshyam Jangid was downloaded by many others on social media and shared again via their individual social media accounts and pages with the identical text thus resulting in lakhs of views.
This was also carried by right-wing websites like Hindutva.info thus resulting in many more shares. We have reported how Hindutva.info routinely carries such fake videos like the Mexican video which was portrayed as RSS workers being killed in Kerala.
Kindly report this post on Facebook before this causes yet another riot due to a fake video. The link to the post is => https://www.facebook.com/ghanshyam.jangid.7965/posts/755106178000364.
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Film shooting video shared as people gunned down in Mumbai/ Gujarat - Alt News
Priyanka Jha
9th March 2021 / 1:24 pm / Last updated: 10th March 2021
A video of two men gunning down a group of people in an alley has been gathering a lot of traction on social media. Users claim that the visuals are from Mumbai’s Dongri area. A Twitter user shared the clip with a caption that read, “Shots fired in Dongri. How many more good days?”.
Shoot out at dongari
Or kitney Achhey din pic.twitter.com/bPyq1wbfwI
— #binod (@binod__budy) March 8, 2021
We received a request to fact-check the video on the Alt News WhatsApp number and mobile app. The clip is also being circulated with a Gujarati caption where it is described as an incident from Vakhariya Bazar in Gujarat’s Veraval.
Similarly, another user wrote, “Down with these Nizams and leaders. Such violent incidents have become common practice under their rule. Scenes from Dongri, Mumbai.”
Director Ram Gopal Verma also tweeted the video asking where was it shot.
Can someone tell me where this happened ? pic.twitter.com/FLoZpazDW8
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) March 8, 2021
We noticed that a user named @khan25_shoaib replied that the video shows a movie set. He also posted a clip where some people that appear in the viral video can be seen.
pic.twitter.com/iYmwBjay92
— SHOAIB,KHAN25 (@khan25_shoaib) March 8, 2021
The people who have been ‘shot’ can be spotted in both videos. Nobody is coming to their aid and there is no panic on the street which suggest that it is a movie shooting video. Furthermore, the man who was shot gets up and one can also see cameras and other equipment on the other side.
People can be heard speaking in Gujarati in the video posted by @khan25_shoaib. We performed a search based on this and found a post on the ‘Our gir Somnath’ Facebook page. According to the post, the clip going viral on WhatsApp is fake. It also mentioned that no such incident occurred in the Veraval market.
હમણાં એક બે દિવસથી વોટ્સ એપ મા ફરતો આ વીડિયો તદન ખોટો છે વેરાવળ વખારિયા બજાર મા કોઈ પણ મર્ડર થયું નથી ખોટી અફવાઓથી દૂર…
Posted by Our gir somnath on Monday, March 8, 2021
Fact Crescendo found Goa News Hub had uploaded the same video stating, “Film shooting of a shoot out at Mapusa has created panic on the net as the clip is being made viral claiming to be real life incident.”
Film shooting of a shoot out at Mapusa has created panic on the net as the clip is being made viral claiming to be real life incident. pic.twitter.com/AR2My84m1V
— Goa News Hub (@goanewshub) February 7, 2021
Rupesh Samant, founder and editor of Goa News Hub, told Fact Crescendo, “The video was mostly a part of a local movie shoot. There are several video clips which show that the victim in the video gets up and walks away.”
A YouTube video of the shooting from another angle makes it clear that it is not a real-life incident.
A video of a film shooting in Goa is viral as an actual incident of people gunned down in Mumbai.
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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Kiran Bedi and her love for screamingly fake WhatsApp forwards - Alt News
Sam Jawed
25th December 2017 / 6:32 pm
No Kiran Bedi, not again. The honorable Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry has a penchant for falling for fake news. Time and again, Kiran Bedi has fallen for the most obvious fake news and helped to spread it further among her 11 million followers. Today, on Christmas day, Kiran Bedi shared a unique calendar. A calendar she found so unique that it did not occur to her on Monday, December 25, 2017 that Jan 1 cannot be a Sunday. It was a hoax and Ms. Bedi had fallen for it. She has now deleted her tweet in which she shared such an obviously fake screenshot.
With the number of fake images and WhatsApp forwards doing the rounds on social media, there is nothing unusual if someone falls for it. At some time or the other we have all believed something on social media that later turned out to be false. Kiran Bedi is however doing it with remarkable consistency.
A few months ago, on the Diwali day she came across a video of an old lady dancing and she shared it as that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother. “Spirit of Diwali at tender age of 97. She is mother of @narendramodi (Heeraben Modi – 1920) celebrating Diwali at her home. @sadhguruJV”
The video turned out that of some random old lady dancing enthusiastically to a popular Garba song. It posted on Sept 30th 2017, right after 9-day Garba celebration in Gujarat.
Spirit of Deepavali at tender age of 97. She's mother of @narendramodi (Hiraben Modi -1920) celebrating Diwali at her own home👇🏼@SadhguruJV pic.twitter.com/HBXAzNXomC
— Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) October 20, 2017
Bedi’s tweet had 6000 retweets and over 21000 likes, probably from those who trusted the video seeing it tweeted by a person holding a constitutional position. The video was probably picked up from a WhatsApp group by Bedi. Her subsequent clarification however didn’t have such a reach and was only shared by around a 100 people. As they say “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Am informed it's mistaken identity @SadhguruJV. But salute to the mother with so much vigour. I hope i can be like her if/ when I am 96..! https://t.co/5llHN40tg8
— Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) October 20, 2017
In January when Burj Khalifa in Dubai was lit up for Republic Day, Kiran Bedi tweeted a collage of other monuments lit up in Indian colors. “Fantastic. Jai Hind,” she tweeted along with pictures of Burj Al Arab, Big Ben, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Twin Towers, Statue of Liberty, etc lit up in tricolor. Once again such an obviously fake picture that was so far only being circulated on WhatsApp got an endorsement from Bedi.
Fantastic. Jai Hind. pic.twitter.com/itEiCcVSEu
— Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) January 27, 2017
That’s not all. During Diwali 2016 as well, Kiran Bedi was caught circulating fake news. She shared with her unsuspecting followers, an appeal from PM Modi to buy only Indian products during Diwali. Unknown to her, a few months earlier, PMO had warned social media users against such fake appeals. Bedi did not bother to delete her tweet even after the same was pointed out to her by many including SMHoaxSlayer.
PMs message for all of us, asking us to buy only Indian made products for this diwali. Please send out this appeal.. pic.twitter.com/n4vcObzxYN
— Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) September 27, 2016
Few appeals with PM’s ‘signature’ are circulated on social media. Such documents are not authentic. pic.twitter.com/9AOcvHStFu
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) August 31, 2016
Though most of the above is about sharing material as received without taking the trouble to verify it, Kiran Bedi has also once been the original source of misinformation. Bedi had claimed that in 1982 she towed away Indira Gandhi’s car for a traffic violation. It was also a part of her twitter bio. There is no doubt that Bedi has very impressive credentials but this additional detail turned her into a legend. This story of a young idealist IPS officer standing up against the most powerful woman in India caught the imagination of whoever heard it.
U do remember the former cop who towed PM's car for traffic violation. Meet @thekiranbedi in person at #Mindrocks on Sept 21 at Siri Fort
— Anjana Om Kashyap (@anjanaomkashyap) September 19, 2013
During the run up to the Delhi elections where Bedi was BJP’s CM candidate, it was revealed that it was not she but sub-inspector Nirmal Singh who had towed away the car. While Kiran Bedi earned the badge of “Crane” Bedi and Nirmal Singh was never talked about, it was only in 2015 that the complete story came to light. Her Twitter bio has since been updated to remove the reference to the car.
The list of Bedi’s social media bloopers is long. It is perhaps poor judgment or an overly trusting nature that makes her a regular victim of fake images that do the rounds on WhatsApp. Maybe she really believes all that she comes across from her “trusted” sources like WhatsApp groups. What is perplexing is that she has not deleted many such messages even after she was informed multiple times. We may laugh off some of the stuff she shares as harmless but we can’t be faulted for having high social media expectations from a person in her position.
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Kiren Rijiju tweets football video of Brazilian child prodigy to laud PM Modi's emphasis on sport - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
2nd July 2018 / 11:10 pm / Last updated: 12th July 2018
Minister of State for Home and self-proclaimed football enthusiast Kiren Rijiju tweeted in praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 30. His tweet was effusive in its admiration for PM Modi who Rijiju credited for placing great emphasis on sport in India and football in particular. The minister said that the “Indian team is performing much better” and that “younger generations are showing more interest”. To reiterate his point, Rijiju also posted a video of a young boy skillfully juggling a ball with his feet.
At last count, the number of retweets was close to 1900. However, the tweet has now been deleted, without explanation or clarification. The archived version of the tweet can be accessed here. What prompted the minister to delete it?
Who is the football whizz-kid in the video? Alt News tried to find out via Google reverse image search, and came across a video posted on Imgur, an online image sharing portal.
This brazilian kid juggling a soccer ball.
This is the same video as that posted by Rijiju but according to the caption, this kid is from Brazil. Using relevant keywords on YouTube, we came across a number of videos of this child. His name is Marco Antonio. He is six years old and a prodigy at football, already designated as the next Neymar.
Rijiju was called out on Twitter by social media users who pointed out that the child in the video is Brazilian and not from India.
Yes Sir, AFA soccer is concerned, our younger generation will be like Marco Antonio – this 6 year Brazilian soccer wonder kid soon. He posted this video on his Instagram account.https://t.co/87j1Uu5zxn
Though Our Young prodigy like R. Praggnanandhaa is inspiring the world.
— Neeraj (@Neeraj_2018) July 2, 2018
Kiren Rijiju is right in stating that Indian football has performed significantly better in recent years. India now ranks 97th among the comity of football-playing nations, a meteoric jump from the all time low of 173 in 2015. Notwithstanding the significant improvement in rank, tweeting a video of a Brazilian child to stress the point that the younger generation is taking greater interest in the sport is misleading at the very least.
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.
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Kirti Azad shares old, manufactured cartoon of PM Modi as TIME magazine's cover photo - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
22nd March 2019 / 8:34 pm / Last updated: 23rd March 2019
Former Indian cricketer and Loksabha MP Kirti Azad tweeted a caricature of PM Modi claiming that it was one of TIME magazine’s cover photos. The image is meant to depict a compromised Indian media, acting as the Prime Minister’s mouthpiece. “Waah Modi ji waah One of the most reputed magazines of the world, has this to say about Indian media, how our Prime Minister @narendramodi breast feeds them. Isn’t it true? @abpnewstv @CNNnews18 @IndiaToday @republic @TimesNow @aajtak @ZeeNews etc. @RahulGandhi,” read Azad’s tweet (archive).
If one notices the cartoon carefully, the bottom left side carries the stamp – ‘Mitesh Patel’.
Patel is a Gujarat resident who had created this caricature and was later booked for one such cartoon in 2017. “IP Singh, a BJP leader from Lucknow and a former Uttar Pradesh minister, said one Mitesh Patel posted the cartoon on Twitter on Wednesday and it was retweeted by at least 292 people,” according to March 2, 2017 report by Hindustan Times. The BJP also accused him of being associated with the AAP and Congress.
Patel lifted the cartoon from a 2012 LA Times report by David Horsey. The photo tweeted by Kirti Azad carries the surname ‘Horsey’ and ‘2012 LA Times’ stamp right above Mitesh Patel’s former Twitter username.
Posted below is a screenshot of the article from LA Times titled – “Republican Party suckles at the breast of Big Business.”
The cartoon posted by Kirti Azad was, thus, an old caricature made by Gujarat-resident Mitesh Patel. The caricature was not a TIME magazine cover photo but was published on an LA Times report.
Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News.
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Cop kills self in Kolkata, video falsely linked to protest against Nupur Sharma - Alt News
Abhishek Kumar
16th June 2022 / 4:37 pm
After now-suspended BJP spokesperson, Nupur Sharma made a controversial remark on Prophet Muhammad, members of the Muslim community across the country, including in Kolkata, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, protested against the remark. Several reports stated that violence occurred in some of these protests.
A video of a policeman lying dead on the road has been shared on social media against this backdrop. A rifle is lying next to his dead body, and a mob has surrounded him. It has been linked with the recent protests. A user named SS Nauhwar tweeted the video and claimed that the policeman was killed by a protesting mob in Kolkata. (Archive link)
Bhartiya Janata Party worker ‘Pt. Varun Parashar’ also tweeted this video with the same claim. (Archive link)
Facebook user Krishna Pandit amplified the claim.
This video is viral on Facebook and Twitter.
Alt News did a keyword search on Google to gather information related to the viral video. We found an NDTV report dated June 10, 2022, about the video. Due to the depiction of violence in the video, it has been blurred. The report states that Chodup Lepcha, a policeman posted at the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata, had fired several rounds with his service rifle before shooting and killing himself.
Telegraph reported that the constable had fired in “every possible direction”. 28-year-old Reema, who was passing by, was killed in this firing. Along with this, 19-year-old Mohammad Sarfaraz and 49-year-old Mohammad Bashir Alam were injured.
Hindustan Times reported that Praveen Kumar Tripathi, Additional Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, stated that the incident was unrelated to protests against Nupur Sharma’s remark. Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Kumar Goel said that the matter is under investigation. His motive for indiscriminately firing before shooting himself is unknown.
Additional Commissioner of Police Praveen Tripathi said that Chodup had shot himself in his neck, as reported by The New Indian Express. “It seems Lepcha who shot himself in his neck was suffering from depression. It is yet to be ascertained whether his act was because of his mental condition,” ACP Tripathi was quoted by the outlet.
This incident is, therefore, unrelated to protests against Nupur Sharma’s remark. It must be reiterated that the constable shot himself and wasn’t “killed by protesters”.
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).
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The mystery behind the ‘Krishna pointing at Eid moon’ painting - Experts opine - Alt News
Pooja Chaudhuri
18th June 2018 / 9:48 pm / Last updated: 9th July 2018
Eid ul-Fitr concluded on June 16 and this year, like its preceding years, saw a familiar painting resurface. As claimed by many on social media, the medieval work of art depicts “Lord Krishna sighting the Eid moon and pointing it to a group of Muslim men and women”. Several people, including the likes of Shashi Tharoor and Yogendra Yadav, shared an image of the painting, proffering a message of religious harmony and tolerance.
A lovely painting depicting Lord Krishna looking at the Eid moon with the Rozedars, Rajasthan, early 1600s.
May this Eid bring peace, harmony, tolerance and acceptance to all!
Posted by Shashi Tharoor on Saturday, 16 June 2018
EID MUBARAK
Reproduction of an 18th century Rajasthan miniature depicting Lord Krishna sighting the Eid moon and pointing it out to a group of Muslim men and women. Let’s resolve on this Eid to win back the spirit of Indìa the picture depicts.
(Courtesy: Navina Jafa) pic.twitter.com/lwTraLYfo7
— Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) June 15, 2018
While some users on social media claimed the painting to be the work of Muslim artists, others claimed that it is a reproduction of an 18th century Rajasthani miniature. However, none cited a source.
The painting was first posted by Swarajya, in a 2015 article written by Dipankar Deb. However, it has now been taken down to “review for factual accuracy and references.”
Deb is the author of the book ‘Muslim devotees of Krishna’. He failed to provide the source of the painting when questioned by many on Twitter.
Since his article was published in Swarajya, the painting has resurfaced every year during the festival of Eid. It was also shared by Shabana Azmi and Rajdeep Sardesai last year.
Hindustan ki Ganga Jamuni tehzeeb ko lakhoN salam 🌻🎈 pic.twitter.com/NNUpFnJhyD
— Azmi Shabana (@AzmiShabana) June 26, 2017
In response to a Facebook post by Indian historian Harbans Mukhia, whose principal area of study is Medieval India, author Rana Safvi sought the provenance of the painting. Ali Nadeem Rezavi, Coordinator, Musa Dakri Museum, at Aligarh Muslim University, commented that the painting, as already clarified by Prof. Mukhia, is an 18th century Rajasthani miniature and not a Mughal work of art. Rezavi wrote that the miniature was from Bikaner, painted by Ruknuddin.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) describes Ruknuddin as a 17th century Rajasthani painter who was a “master of colours and art”. He accompanied the rulers of Bikaner on their military campaigns to the Deccan, as part of their contractual services to the Mughal court. Ruknuddin is associated with painting several portraits there in a “distinctively Mughal manner”.
To ascertain if the miniature in question was, in fact, painted by Ruknuddin, Alt News contacted Pravin Mishra, Artist and Chairperson, Crafting Creative Communication programme, MICA, to compare it with Ruknuddin’s paintings found on The Met website.
“These paintings are very different from the one in question. These look like works of either the same artist or gharana, whereas as the other one looks like the work of a different artist/gharana,” said Mishra.
“Even though I cannot conclusively ascertain the artist behind the paintings, my reasons for putting them in separate brackets is the difference in perspective and composition in both the sets,” he added.
To further establish the origin of the painting, Alt News reverse image searched the painting via Google and stumbled upon another miniature (housed by The National Museum, Delhi) which depicted similar characters. Its provenance dated back to 18th century Pahari paintings. The Pahari gharana originated and flourished during the 17th-19th centuries. It developed in the Himalayan region of North India, Kangra (named after the princely state in the then Himachal Pradesh) becoming the most prominent of its styles. Pahari gharana was distinct from Mughal-influenced art, depicting Radha and Krishna in many of its paintings.
We found another painting depicting similar characters and purportedly also a part of the Pahari gharana. It is a miniature of Krishna lifting Mount Govardhana to protect the inhabitants of Vrindavan from heavy rain and thunderstorm.
Both the paintings were analysed by Mishra who pointed out certain aspects which suggested similarities between these Pahari paintings and the one in question.
“The gestural depiction of all the characters is very similar in these paintings. The folds and the translucency of the fabric, the choice of hues, and the texture and brush strokes of the clouds have a lot of similarities. Though one cannot really make a conclusive claim about the artist being the same in terms of the composition, one can say with certain confidence that these could have been painted either by the same artist, or artists who have worked closely with each other meaning, the same gharana. The most striking similarity one can see is in the detailing of the jewelry and other accessories,” he explained.
Alt News reached out to Indian Art Historian and Critic Dr. B.N. Goswamy for his insights on the origin of the painting and what it truly depicts. “I must confess that I had not seen this image before, despite being quite familiar with the Bhagavata Purana and this series of paintings from the Tehri-Garhwal collection (painted by one of the members of the first generation after Manaku and Nainsukh). Terming this a Rajasthani artwork is a silly assessment. Of course, it is not. It is a Pahari painting from the series to which I have referred above.”
Arguing against claims on social media suggesting that Lord Krishna is in the company of Muslim men and women, Dr. Goswamy said, “the present ‘reading’ of it is completely meaningless based as it is, chiefly I think, on the appearance of Nanda who is dressed like a Mughal courtier: with that kind of beard, and wearing a long jama (clothes) and a sloping turban. There’s an anachronic impossibility for a Muslim figure to be seen in the Bhagavata Purana or this series apart, this is the way Nanda appears in every single folio of this series whenever we see him. Even in this regard, if one notices from close the jama Nanda wears is clearly a Hindu style jama, tied as it is, in Hindu-fashion, under the left armpit. There is not the slightest doubt about this.”
Nearly every person who shared the painting captioned it as “Krishna sighting the moon”; however, Dr. Goswamy clarified that this cannot be conclusively said. “The pointing towards the moon in the sky by Krishna and Balarama seems to be from an obscure passage, possibly in chapter 28 of the tenth skandha, where Krishna, after rescuing Nanda from Varuna who had seized him and taken him to his dominions, leads him and other kinsmen, using his powers of illusion, to a vision of his domains. There, after the rescue, the text says, Krishna “manifested to the cowherds his own realm” which is beyond the range of tamas. One cannot be certain; however, it is not unlikely that the episode occurs more fully in some other rescission of the Purana and not the one generally in circulation.”
Our research and the assessment by experts in the field point at certain facts missed by most who posted the painting – one, the painting isn’t an 18th century Rajasthani miniature but a Pahari work of art; and two, Krishna was not pointing to Eid moon as shared by many on Twitter; and three, the painting does not depict him as in the company of Muslim men and women.
The Pahari miniature has been floating across social media platforms for at least three years now, resurfacing every Eid, along with an incorrect narrative. Those who shared the image on Twitter probably did so because they wanted to send a message of communal harmony by showing Krishna celebrating Eid and the image appealed to them. The depiction maybe well-meaning but is inaccurate. We wont be surprised if the image will resurface during the next Eid.
Pooja Chaudhuri is a senior editor at Alt News.
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False claim of Lalu Prasad Yadav's demise viral on social media - Alt News
Anuradha Prasad
8th February 2021 / 3:25 pm
Many social media users recently claimed that former Railway Minister and ex-Chief Minister of Bihar, Lalu Prasad Yadav, passed away. Sharing a photo of the leader, users wrote, “Very sad news, former Railway Minister and ex-Chief Minister of Bihar, a fearless leader, Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav passed away…. May he rest in peace and may his family find the patience to deal with this adversity.”
On February 3, Facebook user Sanjay Meena posted this claim in a group called ‘Rajasthan’s magician Ashok Gehlot’ (राजस्थान का जादूगर अशोक गहलोत). It drew over 2,000 likes. In the comments, however, several users have pointed out that the news of Lalu Prasad Yadav’s death is false.
The claim has spread to Twitter as well.
बेहद दुःखद खबर
पूर्व रेल मंत्री एवं बिहार के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री , दबंग छवि के नेता श्री लालू प्रसाद यादव का निधन….।
ईश्वर उनकी आत्मा को शान्ति प्रदान करें एवं परिवार जन को सब्रे जमील अता फरमायें। pic.twitter.com/WzBAoqEaN2
— Shiv Pratap Harsana (@shiv_harsana) February 3, 2021
Had a senior leader passed away, the news would have made headlines. Lalu Prasad Yadav, currently serving sentence in the fodder scam case, has been suffering from health problems and undergoing treatment. According to Jansatta’s February 6 report, “Lalu Prasad Yadav’s health is reported to be poor for a long time. Tejashwi Yadav said that his kidney function is down to 25 per cent. A few days ago, his condition was said to be critical. After this, he was brought to AIIMS in Delhi from RIMS via air ambulance.”
Therefore, the news of Lalu Yadav’s death is merely a rumour. The senior politician is ill and suffering from health issues.
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Lalu Prasad Yadav posts Photoshopped image of Patna rally - Alt News
Alt News Desk
28th August 2017 / 9:19 am / Last updated: 28th August 2017
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and Senior Congress Leader Ghulam Nabi Azad shared the stage with Lalu Prasad Yadav at RJD’s mega rally in Gandhi Maidan in Patna. There was a huge turn out for the rally and all was going well for them till a purported picture of the rally was tweeted from Lalu Prasad Yadav’s personal Twitter account.
No "Face" will stand in front of Lalu's "Base". Come & Count as much as u can in Gandhi Maidan, Patna #DeshBachao pic.twitter.com/sXoAcpwNKw
— Lalu Prasad Yadav (@laluprasadrjd) August 27, 2017
The grainy, low-resolution picture showed Gandhi Maidan filled to the brim. Many people on social media noticed many flaws in the picture and started pointing it out as response to Lalu Prasad Yadav’s tweet. An hour after Lalu Prasad Yadav’s tweet, ANI tweeted pictures taken from the same vantage point as the one tweeted by Mr Lalu. The pictures tweeted by ANI showed a much smaller crowd.
RJD's Patna rally: Picture taken from same point where Lalu Prasad Yadav's purported picture was taken; crowd sizes are different. pic.twitter.com/3QuEsBlQua
— ANI (@ANI) August 27, 2017
However, the above pictures do not specify the exact timestamp when the pictures were taken. In a rally, the crowd size is different at various points in time. Thus to compare the pictures provided by ANI with the one provided by Mr Lalu would be a poor fact-check. Yet, several websites used the ANI pictures to draw a conclusion that Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav’s picture was photoshopped.
A better fact-check in this case where we do not have pictures with comparable timestamps would be to either show anomalies in the picture or to find the original base picture which was used for morphing.
SMHoaxslayer showed how the picture was inconsistent by showing a zoomed in version of one part of the image.
Dear @laluprasadrjd ji, atleast hire better Photoshop Certified people. Clear patch, different ratio of heads of people, obvious catch pic.twitter.com/LVYBv672Wi
— SM Hoax Slayer (@SMHoaxSlayer) August 27, 2017
Amaresh Ojha compared two pictures of the crowed at different points in time and rightly pointed out that the trees were missing in the picture tweeted by Lalu Prasad Yadav. Irrespective of how crowded the ground gets, that green patch can’t simply disappear because most of those trees are taller than an average human.
If there’s a photoshopped image of a crowd, there has to be an original image somewhere. Alt News went a step ahead and found the original picture that was used as the base image for morphing. We searched for posts across Facebook and Twitter with keywords such as RJD rally, Lalu Rally and looked through a variety of pictures that were posted by social media users. A Facebook user Shamsheer Ahmed had posted a collection of 7 pictures, one of which was the base image used for morphing. Considering that he posted it much after Mr Yadav’s tweet, he probably received the picture via his social media/WhatsApp contacts.
We juxtaposed the two pictures, the one that we think is original and the one tweeted by Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav. The combined image can be seen below. Notice how the cars towards the bottom of the picture are in the same position in the two pictures. The positions of cars indicates that it was this picture which was used by RJD’s IT cell team for morphing. The crowd in the original picture is clearly much less than the one portrayed by Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav’s picture.
One wonders what motived the RJD IT Cell team to morph the picture of a rally which already had a huge turnout.
The other falsehood that was perpetrated was by former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav.
If someone thinks BJP can't be defeated than come to Gandhi Maidan, 30 lacs people are waiting. #DeshBachao pic.twitter.com/qSzzuoos3K
— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) August 27, 2017
In the above tweet, Junior Yadav claims that the strength of the crowd that attended the rally was 30 lakhs. 30 lakhs also happens to be the population of Jaipur according to 2011 census. Can the whole population of Jaipur fit in the 62 acre Gandhi Maidan ground?
62 acres is equivalent to 27,00,720 square feet. Even if the ground was filled to the brim, by taking a very conservative value of 2 square feet per person, Gandhi Maidan can accomodate a maximum of 13,00,360 or about 13 lakhs. Not sure how Mr Tejashwi Yadav came up with the figure of 30 lakhs.
Politicians should be ashamed of circulating such morphed images and misleading figures. All of these claims can be debunked in very little time. The credibility they lose in the eyes of the people by getting exposed is much larger than gains of pushing out such falsehood.
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'Last prayers' at demolished Babri masjid? No, this is Delhi's Ferozshah Kotla mosque - Alt News
Jignesh Patel
13th November 2019 / 4:28 pm / Last updated: 13th November 2019
A photograph of a crowd offering namaz at a ruined site is being shared on social media. One Shereen, who in her Twitter bio claims to be from Peshawar, Pakistan, posted the image with the claim that the image showed the last prayers at the site of the demolished Babri Masjid in Ayodhya before it is handed over to Hindus. “بابری مسجد میں آخری نماز ادا کر دی گئی۔۔ اس کے بعد مسجد ہندووں کے سپرد کردی جائے گی۔۔,” reads her message.
بابری مسجد میں آخری نماز ادا کر دی گئی۔۔
اس کے بعد مسجد ہندووں کے سپرد کردی جائے گی۔۔ pic.twitter.com/JeToZBoEEF
— Shereen🌷 (@Pukhtaana) November 10, 2019
Several other people on Twitter and Facebook shared the photograph with a similar narrative.
By performing a Google reverse image search, we found that the image dates back to 2008. The photograph was shot at the Ferozshah Kotla Mosque in New Delhi on December 9, 2008. It was clicked by photographer Gurinder Osan. According to the caption of the image available on Associated Press, “Muslims offered Eid al-Adha prayers at the site.”
An eleven-year-old photograph of namaz offered at the Ferozshah Kotla mosque in New Delhi was shared with the false claim that it showed the last prayers at the site of the demolished Babri Mosque in Ayodhya.
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.
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Latest fake quotes: Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, Akshay Kumar and others - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
22nd March 2018 / 7:02 pm
Another day, another barrage of fake quotes on social media. Alt News has decided to keep a daily track of such fake messages flooding social media. Today, we chronice the fake statements attributed to celebrities which includes two movie stars, a journalist and two politicians.
1. Malcolm Turnbull
A quote attributed to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says, “If Narendra Modi becomes PM again in 2019, India will soon become a developed nation”. This quote has been posted by the Facebook page I support Modi ji and BJP which has more than 340,000 followers. The quote was uploaded on March 21 and has been shared more than 600 times already.
Posted by I Support Modi Ji and BJP on Tuesday, March 20, 2018
2. Akshay Kumar
We support Amit Shah is a Facebook page with more than 200,000 followers. It has claimed that actor Akshay Kumar in his meeting with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had asked the latter to allow the Indian army a free hand in dealing with stone pelters. This message was posted along with a picture of the actor with Rajnath Singh, on March 21. It has been shared more than 1100 times at the time of writing.
क्या आप भी अक्षय पाजी के बात से सहमत हैं तो आज इस पोस्ट की शेयर रुकने नहीं दो आज कम से कम 5000
शेयर आनी
Posted by We Support BJP on Wednesday, March 21, 2018
The claim attributed to the actor is fake. Akshay Kumar has met the Union Home Minister on more than one occasion, but there has not been a single report stating what has been claimed in the post above.
3. Anil Kapoor
“PM Modi is the kind of politician who knows the path, walks on it himself and shows others the way” (translated). These are the words attributed to actor Anil Kapoor and has been posted by the Facebook page Modi Express.
आप सहमत हैं तो इसे आगे बढाइये ।
Posted by Modi Express on Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Modi Express has close to 350,000 followers and the above fake quote has been shared almost 300 times.
The following quotes are by parody accounts which are construed to be true and often shared widely on social media.
4. Sambit Patra
A quote attributed to BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra in which he ridicules former cricketer and Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu for having criticised former PM Manmohan Singh earlier and doing a complete about-turn after he joined the Congress party.
Posted by We Support Amit Shah on Thursday, March 22, 2018
The quote was posted by the Facebook page We Support Amit Shah. It is from the handle @sambit_swaraj which is NOT the official Twitter account of Sambit Patra. Original accounts are accompanied by a blue tick which distinguish them from fake accounts. The official account of Patra can be accessed here.
5. Sweta Singh
‘Every Government has limitations, but looking at the hate for Narendra Modi by anti-national forces, we are even more determined to stand by Modi ji” (translated). This is the statement ascribed to Sweta Singh who is Executive Editor, Programming with Aaj Tak. The quote has been posted by the page Modi Mania which has more than 180,000 followers.
Posted by MODI MANIA on Wednesday, March 21, 2018
The above quote has been shared over 1300 times. The handle of the account reads @TheSwetaSinghAT which again is not the original account of the anchor. Sweta Singh’s account goes by the handle @SwetaSinghAT and can be accessed here. It can be seen that no such message has been tweeted by her.
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.
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Latest fake quotes: Rahul Gandhi, Abdul Kalam, Sehwag, Ravish Kumar and more - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
19th March 2018 / 7:23 pm
Every day, Alt News comes across quotes and statements which are attributed to celebrities that turn out to be fake. On a daily basis, these quotes are shared on multiple pages and groups across social media platforms. These fake quotes hardly take time to circulate widely and by the time they come to our notice, they are already viral. The menace of fake quotes is like a fire which cannot be doused and spawns with renewed vigour each day. Alt News will chronicle them on a daily basis from now on. Here are the latest victims.
1. Rahul Gandhi
“Keeping the sentiments of Muslims in mind, we too should stay away from Vande Mataram and the national anthem” (translated). According to a post viral on social media, Congress President Rahul Gandhi has supposedly made such a statement. This incendiary statement attributed to Gandhi has been posted on a Facebook page Bharatiya Janata Party with the handle @BJYMMPTM which has over 200,000 followers. It was posted on March 18 and has been shared more than 5000 times at the time of writing.
इसके लिए दो शब्द कमेंट करें मित्रों
Posted by भारतीय जनता पार्टी BJP on Sunday, March 18, 2018
Another Facebook page BJP All India (@Bjpalindia) which is followed by more than 12 lakh people too has posted this quote which has been shared over 2000 times.
Posted by Bjp All India on Sunday, March 18, 2018
The above quote attributed to Rahul Gandhi is fake. Alt News spoke to Congress Spokesperson Randeep Surjewala who confirmed that the Congress President has not made any such statement. “Rahul Gandhi has not said any such thing. This is a fake quote. His views on religion were made clear at the speech he gave yesterday at the plenary session of the Congress party”.
2. APJ Abdul Kalam
“Pakistan tried to woo me often. They even cited the Quran and Islam, but I refused because nation is above Quran and Islam and it would be wrong to betray the country (translated)”. This quote attributed to former President APJ Abdul Kalam is being shared widely on Facebook. The page Kattar Hindu Bhagwa Raj has almost 35 lakh followers. The quote which was uploaded on March 17 has been shared more than 10,000 times at the time of writing.
Posted by कट्टर हिन्दू भगवा राज on Saturday, March 17, 2018
Alt News looked up the speeches and quotes given by APJ Abdul Kalam on his official website which has archived them, and we found that there is not a single reference to this quote, or any quote relating to Pakistan, Islam and Quran anywhere. The two PDF files that the search threw up did not contain any reference to these words.
3. Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag is known to be social media savvy. The former India cricketer has a huge following on Twitter and tweets regularly on a gamut of issues, some of which have courted controversy. Serial fake news peddler PostCard News has attributed a quote to Sehwag in which he ridicules Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
Atal Bihari Vajyapee Fans is a Facebook page which has more than 1.2 million followers. It posted this quote of PostCard News which was shared over a thousand times. Another Facebook page Narendra Modi- True Indian which is followed by nearly 800,000 people also posted it, and it was shared more than 600 times.
Needless to say that the quote is absolutely fake. A look at Sehwag’s Twitter timeline reveals Sehwag has not made any such statement or tweet. That however seems to matter little to those who are actively sharing it on social media. Both the pages mentioned above which posted this quote have now deleted the post.
4. Ravish Kumar
Journalist Ravish Kumar is the bete noire of many right-wing supporters and sympathisers on social media. At the same time, he is highly revered in other sections of the political spectrum, sometimes to the point of attributing words to the journalist that he has not uttered. “Kejriwal who built a flyover worth 300 crore in 200 crore is a thief, whereas those who bought a 300 crore Rafale for 1500 crore are honest (translated)” are the words attributed to him by the function of putting the above quote next to a picture of his.
कमेंट कीजिए!!!शेयर करें । पेज लाइक करें ।
Posted by I Support Ravish Kumar on Sunday, March 18, 2018
I support Ravish Kumar is a Facebook page with more than 500,000 followers. It posted the above quote on March 18 which has been shared more than 5000 times despite being fake.
5. Dharmendra
Actor Dharmendra who is a former BJP MP too has not been spared by this scourge of fake quotes. We support BJP is a Facebook page which has more than 350,000 followers. On March 16, it posted a quote attributed to the veteran actor wherein he is reportedly saying, “If all Indian muslims are united for settling Rohingyas in India, then all Hindus must unite to throw them out (translated)”.
अगर आप धर्मेंद्र कुमार से सहमत है तक इस पोस्ट को ज्यादा से ज्यादा शेयर करें।।।।।।।
Posted by We Support BJP on Friday, March 16, 2018
The above fake quote has been shared almost 1700 times and continues to circulate.
6. BR Ambedkar
“Muslims can never live with non-muslims peacefully. It is necessary to send all muslims to Pakistan during partition, otherwise the problem will continue to fester after partition and muslims will destroy India from within” (translated). These are the words attributed to Bhim Rao Ambedkar, according to a post by the page We trust Narendra Modi. This page has more than 850,000 followers and the post has been shared over 1800 times.
बाबा साहिब ने जो कहा था आज वो सच होते दिख रहा है ।इस पोस्ट को ज्यादा से ज्यादा शेयर एवं इस पेज को लाइक करें..
Posted by We Trust Narendra Modi on Saturday, March 17, 2018
Ambedkar’s views on Islam and Indian muslims have often been the subject of controversy and debate among historians. They can be found in Pakistan or the partition of India which is a collection of his speeches and writings, and was first published in 1940. His views and remarks on Islam and muslims in India may even be considered caustic by some. “Islam is a close corporation and the distinction that it makes between Muslims and non-Muslims is a very real, very positive and very alienating distinction. The brotherhood of Islam is not the universal brotherhood of man. It is brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims only. There is a fraternity, but its benefit is confined to those within that corporation. For those who are outside the corporation, there is nothing but contempt and enmity. The second defect of Islam is that it is a system of social self-government and is incompatible with local self-government, because the allegiance of a Muslim does not rest on his domicile in the country which is his but on the faith to which he belongs. To the Muslim ibi bene ibi patria [Where it is well with me, there is my country] is unthinkable”, he wrote. The text in the above quote however is a gross misrepresentation.
7. Akshay Kumar and Rahul Gandhi
There is a post on Facebook which contains fake quotes of both Congress President Rahul Gandhi and actor Akshay Kumar. It has been shared by the page We trust BJP (@wetrustbjp1) on March 19 and has been shared close to 200 times. The page has more than 150,000 followers. According to this post, Rahul Gandhi allegedly says that he will become the next PM with the votes of 25 crore muslims, to which Akshay Kumar allegedly replies, “Abey Pappu, 100 crore Hindus too live in this country and we Hindus will vote only for BJP (Modi) (translated)”.
मोदी के समर्थक ज्यादा से ज्यादा शेयर करे
Posted by WE TRUST BJP on Monday, March 19, 2018
The following instances in 8, 9 and 10 are tweets from parody accounts of celebrities. Screenshots of these messages are often circulated on Facebook with a malafide intent and are regarded as true and forwarded further. Official Twitter accounts of these public figures have a blue tick which distinguishes them from fake or parody accounts. More often than not, messages which are posted from such parody accounts are communal in nature and are misused for propaganda.
8. Hardik Pandya
A blatantly communal statement has been attributed to the cricketer. “You will make these Mughals win in 2019 and in 20 years they will turn India into Pakistan. Your daughter who is 3 years old today will have turned 23 and will suddenly disappear. You will realise then, but it will be too late (translated)”, is what he has allegedly said according to a post on Facebook by the page RSS: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Fans which has more than 770,000 followers.
Posted by RSS – Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Fans on Friday, March 16, 2018
The post was put up on March 16 and was shared more than 6000 times. Another page We Support Rohit Sardana which has more than 200,000 followers also posted it. It has been shared more than 1800 times already. The above post is from a parody account, but is being circulated widely as a real message from the cricketer.
Posted by We Support Rohit Sardana on Friday, March 16, 2018
9. Ajay Devgn
The actor has allegedly asked the people of the country to give Prime Minister Narendra Modi at least 15 years at the helm, according to a quote ascribed to him. Modi ki diwani is a Facebook page with more than 500,000 followers.
“60 years of filth cannot be cleaned up in 5 years. Modi ji needs at least 15 years to clean this filth, which we should give him and which we will (translated)”
नमो-नमो!
हर मोदी समर्थक SHARE करे!
Posted by Diwani Modi Ki on Monday, March 19, 2018
The post has been put up today i.e. March 19 and more than 350 people have already shared it on Facebook. This too is a parody account.
10. Paresh Rawal
The actor turned BJP MP’s name has been used on social media to spread fake messages. According to the quote attributed to him, the actor in the aftermath of the by-poll verdict in U.P and Bihar has said that Muslims of Araria voted for those who ate fodder, whereas Hindus of Gorakhpur did not vote for he who imprisoned criminals and subdued Naxals. This was shared on the Facebook page We Support Rohit Sardana and it has been shared over 1800 times.
Posted by We Support Rohit Sardana on Sunday, March 18, 2018
Apart from fake quotes, parody accounts are also a huge menace that are used to spread fake messages. It often happens that a screenshot of a tweet or a post from a parody account is shared on another platform whose users may not know that the account is fake, and share the message believing it to be real.
The magnitude of the problem of fake quotes is simply staggering and spares no one from cricketers to movie stars to politicians. It is a challenge to keep up with the pace at which these quotes are generated on a real-time basis and shared by pages and groups that have lakhs of members. Alt News will keep a close eye on this daily mischief and keep busting such falsehood.
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.
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Laughing Colours: A popular Facebook page that routinely posts misinformation - Alt News
Arjun Sidharth
5th February 2019 / 5:36 pm / Last updated: 6th February 2019
Laughing Colours, a popular Facebook page with a massive following of over 30 million, recently posted a photograph. The photo showed a massive crowd and the accompanying words were “Surgical strike by Modi in West Bengal”. The context was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political rally in the state in February 2019. The post was later deleted.
The above post was shared over 4700 times. The photograph seen in the post is NOT of PM Modi’s West Bengal rally. It was taken in the USA in March 2018 when massive protests demonstrations were held in favour of gun control following a school shooting at Parkland, Florida in February, 2018. The movement was termed ‘March for our lives’.
This is hardly the first such instance wherein Laughing Colours has shared misinformation. The page, which claims to be an advertising/marketing and entertainment page is seemingly benign, but a closer look at their content reveals that it is often misleading. Emotive issues like nationalism are often chosen as the theme, and in the process, fake images and posts are regularly shared in a bid to garner clicks and generate revenue.
The rumour busting website SMHoaxSlayer has on multiple occasions exposed Laughing Colours and their desperate attempts for viewership. Here are a few such instances when the page has been caught red-handed.
On numerous occasions, Laughing Colours has uploaded this photo on its page with the caption ‘The night stay of Indian soldiers in Siachen glacier at -50*c. Respect and salute to Indian army’. However, this photo was not of Indian soldiers. According to some sources, the pictures is of a Kurdish soldier. Some other websites have mentioned it as Ukrainian. In any case, the photo is clearly not from Siachen.
Laughing Colours had shared this picture of a road claiming that it is the Kailash Mansarovar route through Nathula pass. This picture is of the Yuki-No-Otani Canyon in Toyoma, Japan.
Laughing Colours uploaded this picture, saying it is the Energy Minister of Japan who is bowing in penance for a 20-minute power cut that took place in a village in Japan. It was later revealed how the picture in question was actually that of the new President and CEO of Honda Motor Corp. in the first press conference he addressed after he took over in July 2015.
Laughing Colours uploaded this picture of an old man claiming that he had donated four acres of his land in UP for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally. It quoted the farmer who said, “I am a big fan of Modi because he is an honest leader and fighting corruption”. The post was shared over 10,000 times. On scrutiny, it came to the fore that while the news that a farmer had donated land for Modi’s rally was real, the picture of the old man was actually taken at a TMC rally in 2015 and was not of the said farmer.
The page uploaded this picture of a car apparently decorated with 2000 rupee notes at Mumbai on Valentine’s day. It was also carried by several mainstream media organisations. The picture turned out to be photoshopped.
Laughing Colours used this photo of an injured soldier. It claimed that this soldier’s feet got badly injured in the Siachen snow, yet he had a smile on his face. However, the photograph was that of an American marine who had uploaded it on his Instagram account in July 2016.
In 2016, Laughing Colours uploaded this photo, claiming it was a picture of Canada. According to the description, the stickers in the photo were being used on the road to slow down cars. It juxtaposed this picture with a picture of potholes in India, ridiculing the latter. On closer inspection, it turned out that the said photo was not of Canada but of India and was an advertisement for ‘Pioneer Suspension’, a company which makes suspensions for automobiles. The post ridiculed Indian roads for no reason.
These pictures are of the Sahara desert, claimed Laughing colours in this post. While three of the four pictures were indeed of the Sahara, one of the pictures was that of the Taklamakan desert in China.
This is the smallest camera in the world by Nikon’, said a post by Laughing Colours. Expectedly, it turned out to be false as the picture was an entry for a contest by the artist Robert Pe.
Laughing Colours has been manipulating the sentiments of its viewers by posting on emotive themes of nationalism and religion in a bit to generate greater number of clicks and revenue. By posting fake information and taking pictures out of context, the page has been misleading its audience. Despite being exposed multiple times, Laughing Colours continues to thrive on social media.
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.
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Lawyer Prashant Patel falsely claims his tweet calling for genocide as morphed - Alt News
Jignesh Patel
17th November 2019 / 4:45 pm
A screenshot of Delhi-based lawyer Prashant Patel Umrao’s tweet has become a point of contention on social media. Twitter user Asaur Rahman brought to light a 2013 tweet by Umrao where the lawyer allegedly called for a genocide of the Muslim community. Rahman shared a screenshot of the tweet in the wake of the arrest of journalist Ali Shorab after an FIR was filed by the UP police under the charges of “comments on social media regarding Ayodhya verdict.”
In the 2013 tweet, Umrao had said, “एक एक मियाँ को काटना है ..हर मस्जिद तोड़नी है बेटा अखिलेश .. रोक सको तो रोक लो देश भर के हिन्दू वीरों से अनुरोध है … चलो मुजफ्फरनगर (Each and every Muslim has to be butchered. Every mosque has to be destroyed. Akhilesh, stop us if you can. All Hindu braves of the country are called upon to proceed to Muzaffarnagar -translated)”.
The lawyer, however, claimed that he did not post the said tweet and termed it a work of ‘photoshop’. He quote-tweeted Rahman’s and wrote, “Asarur Rahman is circulating photoshopped images and wants to create unrest by spreading fake news,” while tagging UP police.
Dear @Uppolice this person Asarur Rahman is circulating Photoshop images & want to Crete unrest by spreading fake news. Kindly take action. He is spreading fake news & writing uncivilized words about CM Yogi also.@dgpup https://t.co/SgVc1TbF47
— प्रशान्त पटेल (@ippatel) November 16, 2019
BJP volunteer Vikas Pandey defended Umrao and dubbed the tweet ‘photoshopped‘. Pandey posted a screenshot of a tweet by advocate Sanwar Ali who demanded action against Umrao.
This so called lawyer @advsanwar tried to spread fake Photoshop tweets of @ippatel thus making him a target of Islamic terrorists like Kamlesh Tiwari ji. This is really terrifying. Hope he is arrested soon! pic.twitter.com/50ETz1uH9Y
— Vikas Pandey (@MODIfiedVikas) November 16, 2019
BJP leader Kapil Mishra also came to Umrao’s rescue and alleged that Sanwar Ali had photoshopped the screenshot under a conspiracy to spread hate against Prashant Patel Umrao.
क्या ये लोग दंगे करवाना चाहते हैं?
ये देखिये @advsanwar ने झूठी फोटोशॉप बनाई और @ippatel के खिलाफ नफरत फैलाने की खुलेआम साजिश की
लगता हैं ये लोग देश में दंगे की गंदी साजिश में लगे हैं@Uppolice – such person should be behind the bars immediately pic.twitter.com/2p7q4Laocn
— Kapil Mishra (@KapilMishra_IND) November 16, 2019
In February 2018, Alt News had compiled several instances of misinformation, often hate-filled, propagated by Umrao. The article serves as a profile of the Delhi-based lawyer, documenting his statements against religious minorities and his support for Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuran Godse and German dictator Adolf Hitler. The report includes the 2013 tweet by Umrao where he called for all Muslims to be butchered and mosques to be demolished in Muzzafarnagar. An archive of the tweet proves that it had existed on Umrao’s timeline at least up to February 4, 2018, but was later taken down.
The other tweet seen in Pandey’s and Mishra’s tweets which is claimed to be morphed is also available in the Internet archive. In this tweet, he is reminding people of the violence unleashed in Muzaffarnagar and Godhra, saying “We will finish what you begin, just like Godhra. Then keep shouting for 10 years, like Gujarat. Do you remember Muzaffarnagar?”(translated)
Rajdeep Sardesai had filed a police complaint against Umrao in 2018 for attributing a fake quote to the journalist calling for ‘killing a 1000 Hindus’.
However, this was a one-off instance when an action was taken against Umrao’s propaganda. His hate-mongering is mostly either ignored or justified by influencers who echo his views.
In October 2017, a Swiss tourist couple was physically assaulted at Fatehpur Sikri in UP. The couple sustained grievous injuries and the report made international news. Umrao was among those who spread the false information that it was members of the minority community who had attacked the Swiss couple.
When the Utkal Express derailed in Muzaffarnagar in UP last year, Umrao alleged that the accident was a terror ploy and could be a move to kill Hindu pilgrims, an allegation which turned out to be false.
His hate for the Muslim community is well-known to anybody who has followed the lawyer on social media through the years. Umrao has called for a genocide of Muslims multiple times on Twitter. Posted below is a now-deleted tweet from 2014.
In 2012 as well, he made similar comments calling for a pogrom.
The above examples only provide a myopic view of the hate-filled world of Prashant Patel Umrao. For a larger picture, readers can refer to earlier reports by Alt News – 1, 2.
Most people familiar with Prashant Patel Umrao’s trysts with disinformation would not be astounded that the lawyer defended his calls for a genocide of Muslims with more disinformation. However, a BJP leader coming to the rescue of Patel’s genocidal tweets while reiterating the false claim, intentionally or otherwise, is highly condemnable.
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.
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Leading media outlets use old photos of Imran Khan claiming them to be of Nov 3 attack - Alt News
Kalim Ahmed
3rd November 2022 / 9:39 pm / Last updated: 3rd November 2022
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was allegedly shot at during a rally in Wazirabad in Pakistan’s Punjab on Novermber 3. Khan was leading his party members to the capital, Islamabad, to demand snap elections after he was ousted in April when he was attacked. According to preliminary reports, the ex-cricketer-turned-politician received injuries on his leg, while many of his supporters were injured.
Footage of the firing. Assassination attempt on Imran Khan. pic.twitter.com/fmSgI2E8jc
— Ihtisham Ul Haq (@iihtishamm) November 3, 2022
Soon after the reports came in, several photos started circulating on social media as visuals of the attack and its immediate aftermath. News24 shared two photos on Twitter with the caption, “Photos of Imran Khan have surfaced after he was shot. 9 people were injured in the attack, and 1 dead.” (Archive.)
The same visuals were shared by multiple Indian news outlets, including NDTV, Times Now Navbharat, ET Now Swadesh, Zee Salaam, News1India, Zee Delhi-NCR Haryana, and Inextlive. Pro-BJP propaganda outlet OpIndia also used the viral image in its report.
Various Indian journalists shared the same visuals on Twitter. Among them are multimedia journalist Abhishek Tiwari, manager of India TV Jay Ram Patel, independent journalist Ashish Bhatt, Dainik Bhaskar correspondent Tarun Sharma, and News9 journalist Jacob Mathew.
International publications such as The New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian and CNN also used the same visual as the aftermath of the assassination attempt. The New York Times mentioned (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, via Associated Press’ as photo credit while The Guardians credited Associated Press for the photo and said it was released by Khan’s party Tehreek-e-Insaf.
Photo 1
When Alt News performed a Google reverse image search on the first photo of Imran Khan laying on the ground with his arms up, we came across a tweet from 2014 by Imran Khan with the caption, ‘Night at the dharna [protest].’
Night at the dharna. pic.twitter.com/5ppIGJAs1S
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) August 17, 2014
This photo was clicked in August of 2014 when Khan had challenged the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign after allegations of ‘electoral match-fixing’ were made against the latter. Khan and Tahirul Qadri of Pakistan Awami Tehreek had started separate rallies from Lahore and reached Islamabad after 35 hours of march. The now-viral photo was clicked during this journey where Imran Khan had camped for the night.
Photo 2
For the second photo in which we can see a bleeding Imran Khan being carried by his aides, we again performed a Google reverse image search and found various news reports. Among them was a Time of India fact-check from 2018 that carried the same image. This photo was in circulation in 2018 when claims were made on social media that the Pakistani leader was shot or beaten to death. Alt News had also done a fact-check on the same when it was in circulation in 2018.
The article mentions that the photo is from 2013 when Khan injured his head after falling off a forklift that was taking him onto a stage at an election rally in Lahore.
A video of the incident can also be found on Al Jazeera English’s YouTube channel.
To sum it up, almost decade-old photos were circulated by journalists and media organisations in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former Pakistan PM Imran Khan on November 3.
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Leaked conversation from a Times of India internal WhatsApp group raises many questions - Alt News
Pratik Sinha
8th June 2017 / 12:23 pm / Last updated: 8th June 2017
A leaked screenshot of a conversation from a Times of India internal WhatsApp group has raised many eyebrows in the media fraternity. Alt News received the screenshot from a trusted source. Incidentally, the same screenshot has now been posted in a story on Pgurus.com. In this screenshot, one Mr Diwakar appears to have erroneously posted a message in a WhatsApp group which he immediately regrets stating “Wrong group”.
In the message, Mr Diwakar claims to have met the Finance Minister along with one Mr Ramesh regarding the posting of an IRS (Indian Revenue Service) officer in London with the Income Tax Overseas Unit (ITOU). Further, a person with the last name ‘Dash’ is called who states that the matter of posting is no longer with the Finance Ministry as Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has referred the issue to Ministry of External Affairs. To this, Mr Diwakar suggests that the decision of CBDT to refer the matter to MEA could be overturned by the FM as FM is the competent authority. In response, Mr Dash states that it would look suspicious if only the posting corresponding to London station is recalled and therefore the entire panel of selections for ITOU could be scrapped. The message seems to be originally intended for the IRS officer who’s addressed affectionately as “Babu” but was posted in the WhatsApp group by mistake.
Here’s a copy of the the said screenshot. We have blurred out the phone numbers to protect the privacy of other people in the WhatsApp group.
The full text of Mr Diwakar’s message is as follows:
We looked up the phone number corresponding to the aforesaid message in the WhatsApp conversation and it appears to be that of Diwakar Asthana who is a Executive Editor in Times of India.
When we called Mr Diwakar regarding this issue and asked him if the contents of the screenshot are genuine, he stated, “I don’t know anything about that, I don’t know about any screenshot. In fact, I’m on vacation”. After this, he abruptly disconnected the call. We tried calling him again and also tried reaching him over WhatsApp. However, he’s been unreachable since the time he disconnected the phone call abruptly.
We also looked up other visible phone numbers in the leaked screenshot and all of them turned out to be journalists who are presently working with the National Bureau of Times of India in TOI’s Delhi office. When we called the numbers belonging to Neeraj Chauhan and Dipak Dash whose messages appear above and below Mr Diwakar’s message, both of them refused to comment on this issue.
We looked up if anyone with the name “Dash” whose name appears in the WhatsApp message is associated with the FM. As it turns out, Mr Arun Jaitley’s private secretary is a person called Simanchala Dash. However, at this point of time, we are unable to confirm if the Mr Dash referred to in the WhatsApp conversation is same as Simanchala Dash.
The contents of this message available with Alt News raises very serious ethical questions as to how an important posting in ITOU which would deal with sensitive issues such as black money appears to being influenced by people who are external to the Government. Besides journalistic ethics, this also casts a shadow over the Finance Ministry.
Co-Founder Alt News, I can be reached via E-mail at [email protected] and on Facebook at https://fb.com/freethinker.
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Led by ANI, news outlets publish 7-yo report on Saudi marriage laws as recent - Alt News
Archit
22nd March 2021 / 5:13 pm / Last updated: 22nd March 2021
On March 19, news agency Asian News International (ANI) published a report headlined, “Saudi Arabia prohibits men from marrying women from Pakistan, 3 other nations: Report”. Nineteen hours later, the report was taken down but not before it was republished by several news outlets.
NDTV, Times Now, The Tribune, Livemint, The Economic Times, Hindustan Times, The New Indian Express, Zee Hindustan, The Kashmir Monitor, Big News Network, Sakshi Post, Bangladesh-based The Financial Express and Gulf News were among the organisation that published the report claiming Saudi men cannot marry women from Pakistan, Chad, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Zee Hindustan even prefixed ‘Saudi new rule’ to the headline.
Some of the above-mentioned media outlets have deleted the report.
Propaganda outlets OpIndia and Kreately also amplified the claim. @KreatelyMedia tweeted, “Saudi govt issues order, asking men not to marry Pakistani women.” In the past @KreatelyMedia has posted misinformation on multiple occasions.
🚨 Saudi govt issues order, asking men not to marry Pakistani women
— Kreately.in (@KreatelyMedia) March 20, 2021
ANI published a seven-year-old report as recent. The news was carried by Pakistan-based Dawn in August 2014, when multiple media outlets had also reported on the changed marriage laws in Saudi Arabia including BBC and India Today.
India Today stated that there was no official announcement by the Saudi government and BBC published its report based on Saudi newspaper Makkah and Pakistani outlet Dawn. Readers should note Makkah has since deleted its report.
In 2014, Pakistan Tribune published an editorial criticising Saudi Arabia’s marriage laws. Alt News couldn’t independently verify the authenticity of 2014 reports on the issue. However, we have reached out to the Royal Consulate General of Saudi Arabia and the Ministry of Justice, Saudi Arabia and this article will be updated upon their response. For more details on permission granted to a Saudi resident to marry a foreigner visit the website of the Saudi Arabian government. We were unable to find any mention of marriage prohibited with certain nationalities.
ANI’s now-deleted report had taken several portions from the 2014 report in Dawn. However, the news agency had omitted to mention that the report is old.
It is noteworthy that OpIndia has added an editor’s note to its story but the report is still available on the website. The note states, “This is a story from 2014 that was reported today and made viral by ANI and TimesNow.”
Alt News noticed that prior to ANI’s story, several Twitter users had shared the 2014 report by Dawn including columnists Tarek Fatah and Rakesh Thiyya and Col Vinod.S (Retd).
Saudis prohibited from marrying women from Pakistan and Bangladesh. Remember that indignity?
What a boost to one’s self-respect! https://t.co/qbeug0LyVM
— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) March 18, 2021
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Led by IANS, media outlets fall for a parody account of Tripura CM Biplab Deb - Alt News
Alt News Desk
2nd May 2018 / 12:02 am / Last updated: 11th July 2018
“There is no truth in the (media) reports of Modiji summoning me to Delhi. The (Delhi) trip was long planned. In fact, Modiji loves me like a son,” news agency IANS reported this tweet from Tripura Chief Minister, Biplab Deb. Deb has been in news recently for a spate of ridiculous statements and quoting “sources” several news outlets had reported that he was being summoned to Delhi by PM Modi. In the above context, Biplab Deb’s tweet reported by IANS seemed entirely believable. There was however one problem with it. It was not tweeted by Biplab Deb but a parody handle.
The parody handle, which has now been deleted, had tweeted several hilarious statements including this one and was widely retweeted. A screenshot of the original tweet is still available and the words match those in IANS story. Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb’s verified Twitter handle is @BJPBiplab.
The IANS story was published and tweeted by several media outlets including Times of India, Hindustan Times, Indian Express and India TV, among others. The story has now been withdrawn by IANS after realizing that it came from a false twitter account.
How did a news agency like IANS fall for a parody twitter handle? Well it is not difficult given the statements of Biplab Deb over the last few days. Though everyone had a good laugh over this one, we have seen other instances where the objective of a parody handle is to mislead and peddle fake news. These fake twitter handles have often targeted individuals, ascribing fake quotes to them. The recent abuse faced by Rana Ayyub had started with one such fake quote.
The parody handle’s tweet was retweeted over 1300 times and IANS wasn’t the only one to fall for it.
When will you stop making foolish statements? Is it because you are not educated or just plain silly? Just because you have become CM that has not given you any right to speak gibberish. It hurts to see a young @BJP4India leader being laughed at and ridiculed cc @AmitShah
— Udayan Bose (@boseudayan) April 30, 2018
Considering how frequently tweets from parody handles have led to errors by individuals and news organisations, Twitter must consider having a proper visual indicator for parody handles.
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