The video features Kavitha, a former Haryana police officer who is also a powerlifting and mixed martial arts champion, fighting Bul Bul, India’s first professional female wrestler. A wrestling video between a professional wrestler and a woman wearing saffron salwar kameez is going viral on social media. In the video, the professional wrestler is seen […]
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The viral image is digitally altered. The original placard reads, “India creates history. 100 crore vaccination. Thank you, Modi Ji”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on 31 May for a three-day spiritual retreat. Against this backdrop, an image showing a woman holding a placard that reads, ‘#GoBackModi in front of the […]
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The image dates back to January 2020 when PM Modi had visited Kolkata. It has no link to Tamil Nadu Following the conclusion of election campaign for Lok Sabha Elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on 31 May. P M Modi will meditate at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, a monument built in […]
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This viral video from 2023 shows Rajesh Biju being attacked by fellow party members over a personal dispute. General elections will be held in India from 19 April 2024 to 1 June 2024 to elect the 543 members of the 18th Lok Sabha. Social media is geared up with so many images and videos related to elections. Against this backdrop, a video, which […]
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The image shows an anti-BJP campaign that was carried out ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections in 2021. General elections will be held in India from 19 April 2024 to 1 June 2024 to elect the 543 members of the 18th Lok Sabha. Social media is geared up with so many images videos related to elections. Against this backdrop, an image showing […]
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The viral image was taken in Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram district in 2014, not in Kerala. In the context of Sudipto Sen’s movie ‘The Kerala Story’many posts are circulating on social media spreading misconceptions about Kerala. A picture of a few youths wearing a black t-shirt with ISIS written on it is circulating on social media […]
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The viral image featuring a billboard demanding “no entry” to PM Modi was actually erected in Andhra Pradesh ahead of the PM’s visit in February 2019. It has no link to his recent visit to Tamil Nadu and is edited. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Tamil Nadu last week to inaugurate a new terminal building […]
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Students threw their dupatta as a welcome gesture to Geetha Illangovan [author of Dupatta Podunga Thozhi (Wear the dupatta friend)], who was invited to address them for an event at their school. A video of students lining up in the corridors and flinging their dupattas (scarves) is going viral on social media platforms. According to those who […]
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Over the last few days, rampant disinformation about fatal attacks on Hindi-speaking migrant workers in Tamil Nadu is going viral online. Countering the false narrative, the Tamil Nadu government and police have taken strict action against fake news peddlers. In continuation to this misinformation trend, a video of a group wielding swords and machetes is […]
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The barrage of disinformation on how Hindi-speaking migrant labourers in Tamil Nadu are being targeted and lethally assaulted does not seem to cease. This onslaught of disinformation has made migrant labourers stay away from work in panic. As per a report by the Hindu, the MSME sector in Tamil Nadu has been deeply affected by […]
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Recently, miscreants have circulated many false videos as acts of violence perpetrated on North Indian migrant workers in Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu Police has called these videos a part of the false propaganda spreading among the migrant workers in the state. Police have dismissed rumors of attack on North Indian migrant workers in Tamil Nadu […]
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Social media is flooded with posts and videos regarding the atrocities of locals of Tamil Nadu against Bihari migrant workers. Fact Crescendo found and debunked a few such false claims circulating on social media. One such video is now going viral where a big vehicle can be seen ramming a car with people still sitting […]
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A video of a group of men mercilessly beating a man with iron rods on a street is going viral on social media as attack on Bihari migrant workers in Tamil Nadu. However, when we investigated, we found the video is not from Tamil Nadu but from Punjab. Let us know the truth behind this […]
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Hindi news media have been reporting about Bihari migrant workers fleeing Tamil Nadu because of constant attacks on them by the locals. According to a report by Jagran, the migrant labourers have been facing attacks from the locals in Tamil Nadu and some have even died in these attacks. Subsequently some videos also went viral […]
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Multiple disturbing videos depicting violence have surfaced online amidst allegations of attacks on labourers from North India in Tamil Nadu. Among these, a video showing three attackers brutally assaulting and murdering a man on the road is being claimed as the murder of a Hindi-speaking man in Tamil Nadu. Fact Crescendo received the viral video […]
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A photo showing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders from Tamil Nadu pasting posters of PM Modi with ‘GO BACK MODI’ written on it is going viral on social media platforms. However, when we checked the viral photo, we found it to be altered. BJP leaders seen in the photo are not pasting posters of ‘GO […]
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A video of a flower releasing pollen particles is widely circulating on social media. Users are claiming that the name of the flower is Unghu Pawaee which is a very rare flower that grows in Tamil Nadu. Readers of Fact Crescendo requested a fact check by sending this video to our WhatsApp Factline Number 9049053770 […]
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The image is from Telangana in which a BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) flag has been digitally altered to make it look like a BJP flag. An image showing four men standing on each other’s shoulders hoisting a flag of BJP on an electricity pole is widely circulating on social media. Social media users claim that […]
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Images of bicycle carvings are going viral on Facebook with a claim that these carvings are from a 2000-year-old temple in Tamil Nadu. Users who have shared the images have also claimed that there was the concept of bicycles in ancient India before the invention of bicycles in the 1800s. However, when we fact checked […]
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A post is being widely circulated on social media that claims TNEB charges more money for electricity from temples and less money from churches and mosques. These claims have been circulating on Twitter and Facebook since the middle of the month of May. You can see an example of such tweets and Facebook posts below: […]
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The viral image does not show “Go Back Modi” written on the railway sign board but originally is the signboard at Kanniyakumari railway station. Prime Minister Modi is going to visit Hyderabad and Chennai on 26 May to lay the foundation stone of 11-infrastructure projects worth over Rs. 31,500 crore in Tamil Nadu. In the […]
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The Nandi idol was discovered after an excavation of the Sellandiamman Temple in Tamil Nadu in 2021. An image of the Hindu deity Nandi found buried near a religious structure is widely circulating on social media with the claim that the statue of Hindu deity was discovered after digging under a mosque. The caption of […]
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The video shows an incident in Tamil Nadu where students of two different colleges pelting stones at each other. Violence broke out in different parts of India during the Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti celebrations, social media users shared several images and videos of this violence on social media. Amidst this, a video of a few […]
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The image is from January 2021 when Rahul Gandhi had his lunch with women weavers in Erode, Tamil Nadu. He took off his mask after the food was served. An image showing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wearing a mask and sitting along with women on a dinner table is widely circulating on social media. Social […]
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The antiviral drug Remdesivir has been under the spotlight as it is currently being used in the treatment of COVID-19. Several posts associated with the shortage of the drug, duplication of the drug and the price or black marketing of the drug is doing rounds on social media. One such message claiming that Remdesivir has […]
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As the cyclone Nivar hit along the Tamil Nadu-Puducherry coast, social media is abuzz with videos of its drastic visuals. One such video of a heavy cloudburst into the sea is being shared as the arrival of cyclone Nivar. Fact Crescendo has received this video on our WhatsApp Factline (9049053770) for a fact-check. We found […]
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Cyclone Nivar hits Tamil Nadu due to which airport and metro services have been suspended from 7 PM on Wednesday, 25 November. Amidst this a 19 second long video showing a billboard flying off a wall and falling on the two motorcyclists in the middle of heavy rainfall and gushing winds is going viral on social […]
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Ever since the nation-wide protests against CAA and NRC have begun, social media has been inundated with a multitude of posts. Some posts condemning the protestors while some are expressing solidarity with the protestors. Tamil Nadu has also seen a flurry of posts regarding Anti-CAA protests which has been a hot topic of political discourse […]
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