“A video allegedly showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi being attended to by a make-up artist has gone viral on social media. We found the claims with the video to be misleading.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
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“A graphic video allegedly showing the injured Central forces in a damaged vehicle in West Bengal has gone viral on social media. The video has also been shared with another claim that Rohingya refugees in West Bengal attacked the Central Forces. But we found the claims to be misleading.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A video allegedly showing policemen beating a group of Muslim people in an attempt to stop them from voting is being widely shared on social media. We found that the claims shared with the video are false.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A video showing several demolished ancient buildings is going viral with claims that 80 Muslim houses have been razed for PM Narendra Modi’s ambitious Kashi-Vishwanath corridor project. We found the claims to be misleading.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A photo allegedly showing bodies of security personnel wrapped in cardboard boxes is being widely shared on social media. But we found the claims to be false.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A rumour that the Modi government secretly transported 200 tonnes of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) gold reserve overseas after coming to power in 2014 is being widely shared on social media. But according to the Reserve Bank of India, the claims are false.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
“A video allegedly showing a Dalit man being beaten up by a group of people allegedly led by a BJP MLA is being widely shared on social media. We found the claims to be false.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A set of two photos of a man in a burkha is being widely shared on social media with claims that a Congress worker indulged in fake voting. We found the claims to be false.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“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
“Former Indian army officer and BJP member Major Surendra Poonia tweeted an old video from Sri Lanka trying to link it to the ongoing elections. But we found the claims to be misleading.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
“Several social media posts have gone viral with claims that India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru did not play any role in setting up India’s space agency, Isro. We found that the claims are misleading.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
“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 video allegedly showing PM Narendra Modi walking with huge crowds in Varanasi to file his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha elections has gone viral on social media.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A purported RSS letter written to BJP President Amit Shah demanding that Pragya Thakur’s candidature from Bhopal should be cancelled is being widely shared on social media. The letter has been signed off by senior RSS official Suresh Soni. But our investigation revealed that the letter is fake.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“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
“A video allegedly showing PM Narendra Modi calling himself the son of a Pathan has gone viral on social media. We found that the video is being shared with misleading claims.”
BBC Hindi rated this: Misleading
“A video showing Sri Lanka police arresting a burqa-clad man, allegedly in connection with recent bombings has gone viral on social media in India. We found that the video is old and has no connection to the Sri Lanka bomb blasts.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A photo is going viral on social media with claims that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi invited India’s first IPS officer Kiran Bedi for lunch after Mrs Bedi allegedly towed away Prime Minister’s car in 1982. We found that the viral image is real but is being shared out of context. It has no relation to the 1982 incident.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False
“A video clip of PM Narendra Modi allegedly using an abusive word in his rally has gone viral on social media. We found that the claim with the viral clip is false.”
BBC Hindi rated this: False