“A video of CPI’s Begusurai’s candidate Kanhaiya Kumar in which he can be heard saying that Lord Hanuman burnt Lanka for someone else’s wife has gone viral on social media. We found the claims to be misleading.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
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“A video has gone viral on social media with claims that Congress leader Ajay Rai is speaking ill about the Congress party. But we found that the person in the video is not Mr Rai.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“Several official pages of Congress party shared a set of two photos of the Ganges river on Twitter and Facebook with claims that the Bharatiya Janata Party failed to deliver its promise to clean the river. But we found that the pictures are real but have been shared out of context.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
“A set of photos are going viral on social media, in connection to the mass funeral after a series of blasts that happened on 21 April 2019. But these pictures are old and have no connection to the recent blasts.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
“Shatrughan Sinha made a statement that former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee compared Indira Gandhi to Durga. But we found his statement to be misleading.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A video has gone viral on social media with claims of heaps of cash recovered from Madhya Pradesh’s CM Kamal Nath’s close aides. But the video has no relation to the recovered cash.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A video of singing school girls dressed in burkha has gone viral on social media with claims that Hindu and Sikh girls are also forced to wear the burkha. But we found the claims to be false.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A set of photos is going viral on social media with claims that Indira Gandhi’s family indulged in lavish lifestyle ignoring the need of resources for ISRO’s satellite launch. Both the pictures are correct but are being shared out of context.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
“Claim Review: A set of photos is going viral on social media with claims that Indira Gandhi’s family indulged in lavish lifestyle ignoring the need of resources for ISRO’s satellite launch. Both the pictures are correct but are being shared out of context.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
“A screenshot of National Congress Party (NCP) Chief Sharad Pawar’s Wikipedia page that shows him as “most corrupt” is being widely shared on social media. It’s true that the Wikipedia page on 26 March showed Mr Pawar as the “most corrupt”.”
BBC Hindi rated this: True
“There are claims going viral on social media that Rs 350 will be deducted from the bank accounts of people who won’t vote in the forthcoming Lok Sabha Elections scheduled to take place across the country in seven phases”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
“A photo is going viral on social media with claims that Manohar Parrikar’s brother Suresh Parrikar lives a humble life in Goa by running a simple Kariana Store. However, some people are questioning the authenticity of the photo. We found that the claims made are true.”
BBC Hindi rated this: True
“There are claims going viral on social media that Rs 350 will be deducted from the bank accounts of people who won’t vote in the forthcoming Lok Sabha Elections scheduled to take place across the country in seven phases”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A photo is going viral on social media with claims that Najeeb Ahmad of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has joined the jihadist group, ISIS. We found that the image is old and has no connection with Najeeb.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A claim is being spread on social media in the name of the BBC that thousands of people died during demonetisation and it was not reported. But the claims are false. BBC has not published any report stating that the number of deaths due to the note ban was in thousands.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A fake and provocative article has been shared on several right-wing groups on social media. The title of the article is 'Sonia Gandhi hates Hindus, former President Pranab Mukherjee dcloses.’ But the claims are false”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A video showing the newly appointed General Secretary of Congress, Priyanka Gandhi, allegedly in an inebriated state has gone viral on several right-wing social media pages. But our research found the claims to be false.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“Twitter and Facebook users have claimed that Google showed Sonia Gandhi's pictures on searching "Bar Girl". But it was an attempt to mislead people.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
“The claims are going viral on social media that Rohingya refugees in Meat eat flesh of Hindus. But we confirmed that the claims are false.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False