Fake News Library

A viral claim on social media suggests that a 400-year-old Shiva statue in Pratapgarh, Gondia district in Maharashtra was desecrated by members of the Muslim community. One of the firsts to float the claim was Twitter user @craziestlazy (archive). But today afternoon I got news by local media that the Statue of lord Shiva vandalised by peaceful.Actually…More

Old video of village drama from Rajasthan shared as Muslims sacrifice boy as ritual  BY POOJA CHAUDHURI “ये कौनसा धर्म है भाया जिसने एक मासूम बच्चे की बली चढ़ा दी और सारे लोग खुशियां मना रहे हैं sayad ye sab log musalman lagte he,” is a message viral on Facebook. It claims that a boy was sacrificed…More

Pakistani-Canadian author Tarek Fatah tweeted a video of a group of men, a majority of them wearing skull-caps, and wrote . “In the #DelhiPolls2020, Muslim goons chant a provocative slogan against Hindus to boast Islamic supremacy,” claimed Fatah. The crowd can be heard chanting, “हिंदुस्तान में रहना होगा अल्लाह हू अकबर कहना होगा (If one wishes to reside in India,…More

Pakistani-Canadian author Tarek Fatah tweeted a video of a group of men, a majority of them wearing skull-caps, and wrote . “In the #DelhiPolls2020, Muslim goons chant a provocative slogan against Hindus to boast Islamic supremacy,” claimed Fatah. The crowd can be heard chanting, “हिंदुस्तान में रहना होगा अल्लाह हू अकबर कहना होगा (If one wishes to reside in India,…More

A video of members of the Muslim community exiting a building has been widely shared with a message in Telugu which claims that the Vinayaka Temple located in Kanipakam in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district has been converted into a quarantine centre. Several users have expressed distress that Muslim or Christian places of worship haven’t been…More

On February 13, one Navneet Gautam tweeted a video with the claim that Muslims are throwing pieces of meat outside a Hindu temple in ‘Nai ka Nagla’ neighbourhood of Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras. In the video, a lane is visible where dogs can be seen loitering around the “pieces of meat”. The tweet also had a rhetorical question…More

An image of an injured woman is being shared on social media with the claim that she is a doctor who died after she was attacked by “Islamic jihadis” in Uttar Pradesh. The woman is lying on a gurney with an intubation tube inside her mouth. A parody Twitter handle of journalist Arnab Goswami while…More

Two videos which show currency notes scattered on the road are viral on social media with the claim that “coronavirus-infected notes were scattered by the Muslim community” in Video 1 Facebook page Kodagu Hindus posted the viral video has been shared with the following text in Kanada text, “ಕರೊನಾ ಬಂದಿರುವ ಕೆಲವು ಮುಸ್ಲಿಂ ಸಮುದಾಯದ ಜನರು 500, 2000 ನೋಟುಗಳಿಗೆ…More

On April 13, a Facebook profile which goes by the name Karamveer Chamar Hindu Yodha posted a video of a person addressing a crowd. After listening to the audio, it is understood that the people in the crowd are members of the Muslim community. The man addressing the crowd says that if the government is saying that…More

On April 24, Zee News published a report titled, “(Kabab was served with bodily waste, the mentality of Jamaatis prevails even abroad) कबाब में परोसते थे शरीर की गंदगी, विदेश में भी वही जमाती मानसिकता.” The report has now been updated. The initial version said, “How far can you be saved from religious fundamentalism? Not just in India,…More