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An old video from Tamil Nadu shared as police beating women in Bihar

July 28, 2025July 28, 2025Usha Manoj

This viral video is not from Bihar but from Panagudi in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. The dates for the Bihar assembly elections have not been announced yet, but the election activities in the state have intensified. Meanwhile, a video is going viral on social media targeting the Nitish Kumar-led government and claiming that police […]

This video of Iranian girls celebrating Israel’s attack on Iran is old.

June 24, 2025June 24, 2025Usha Manoj

The video is unrelated to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran. Israel launched strikes in Iran on 13 June, leading to several rounds of Iranian missile and drone attacks on Israel. Following this, a video purporting to show Iranian girls celebrating Israel’s attack on Iran has gone viral on social media. Let’s check the […]

Old video of a protest in Manipur goes viral as recent

April 9, 2025April 9, 2025Usha Manoj

The viral video dates back to September 2024, when women in Imphal, Manipur, protested the state’s ongoing violence. The Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha both approved the statutory resolution to confirm the imposition of President’s Rule in Manipur on 4 April 2025, On 13 February, 2025, four days after the resignation of the State’s […]

Los Angeles firefighters are not using women’s handbags to put out fires

January 22, 2025January 22, 2025Usha Manoj

The video shows Los Angeles firefighters using small canvas bags, not women’s handbags, as makeshift water containers to extinguish a small fire. The raging wildfires across California have wreaked havoc, claimed at least six lives and caused widespread destruction to property and land. Amidst this a video showing two LAFD (Los Angeles Fire Department) firefighters filling […]

Old Video Of A Land Dispute In Sitakunda Going Viral Linking To The Communal Clash In Bangladesh.

December 5, 2024December 5, 2024Debanjana baishya

Recently, a video of two men attacking three women went viral on social media, claiming it to be an attack on Hindu women by Muslims in Bangladesh. Sharing the video on Facebook, a user wrote, “বাংলাদেশের উগ্র মৌলবাদীরা প্রকাশ্যে হিন্দু নারীদের হত্যার চেষ্টা করছে!!Radical fundamentalists of Bangladesh are openly trying to kill Hindu women!! #SaveBangladeshiHindus […]

2016 video of a fight between two Indian woman wrestlers goes viral with misleading claims

August 29, 2024August 29, 2024Usha Manoj

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 […]

Old video of women waiting outside bank falsely linked to congress’ Mahalakshmi scheme

June 15, 2024June 15, 2024Usha Manoj

The viral video is not recent and not related to Congress’ Mahalakshmi scheme. It dates back to 2020. Congress’ promise of directly crediting ₹8,500 into the accounts of women heads of families belonging to the BPL category under its Mahalakshmi scheme has received mixed response in UP. It guarantees ₹1 lakh every year to a woman from […]

Old Prega News Ad Is Going Viral As Congress Party’s New Ad Campaign For The Mahalakshmi Scheme.

May 29, 2024May 29, 2024Debanjana baishya

Recently a video went viral on social media claiming to be an ad for the Mahalakshmi scheme announced by the Congress party. The video shows a mother trying to console her crying baby and a cleaning staff advising her how to make the baby stop crying. Then another woman working on a laptop taunts the […]

Women shouting abuses at a BJP campaign van goes viral again falsely linking to the 2024 General election

March 30, 2024Usha Manoj

This is an old incident that happened in Bihar three years ago. 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. As the general elections approach, political parties are actively campaigning for them. Meanwhile, in North India, a video of women shouting abuses at a BJP campaign […]

2018 video goes viral ahead of 2023 Telangana Assembly Elections

November 24, 2023November 24, 2023Usha Manoj

The viral video was from the campaigning for the 2018 Telangana Assembly elections, it is not recent. The month-long poll battle will come to rest with single-phase voting in Telangana on November 30. In Telangana the incumbent Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS and erstwhile TRS), led by K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR), is facing competition mainly from […]

The video of attack by three men on two women is not related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

October 21, 2023October 22, 2023Usha Manoj

The video shows the scene of a fight on a street in Seattle, in the United States. It has no link to the ongoing Israel- Hamas conflict Many videos linking Hamas’ attack on Israel are going viral on the internet. In such a situation we have noticed a video of the fight, two women being punched […]

This video does not show three generations of Russian gymnasts performing together

October 3, 2023October 3, 2023Usha Manoj

The video depicts a team of Russian gymnasts who are not related to each other. The video was shot at the 2010 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships. A video featuring the performance of three Russian female gymnasts has gone viral on social media with the claim that these gymnasts represent three generations from the same family. The caption […]

The video does not show a Black man beating up a White woman

May 26, 2023May 26, 2023Usha Manoj

An old video of 2014 assault between two women in New Jersey. A disturbing video of a lady being brutally assaulted is going viral on social media. Many people on social media claimed that a Black man beat up a White woman in a park in front of her terrified children in the video. The […]

The viral image does not show Bangladesh freedom fighters recreate 1971 moment

March 31, 2023April 1, 2024Usha Manoj

None of the women in the photographs were part of the Bangladesh Liberation War. A series of two images depicting four women sitting in a jeep over the course of several years has gone viral on social media. The images are claim that the four women are freedom fighters from the Bangladesh Liberation War of […]

Referee in basketball hoops- what’s the truth

February 18, 2023February 18, 2023Usha Manoj

The viral video is from the Soviet-era Russian film “Eighth World Wonder” of 1981. A video of a basketball match is going viral on the internet with users claiming that it shows a match between France and Russia. The scenes appear to show female basketball players competing in a match. The camera focuses on a tall player in a red […]

Viral Video of Muslim Women Allegedly Assaulted by Police during Voting is from UP and not Gujarat

December 16, 2022December 16, 2022Harish Nair

A reel showing some women displaying their wounds and alleging that Police stopped them from casting their votes is going viral on Facebook. Text etched over the video says that this incident happened in Gujarat during the recent assembly elections. However, when we investigated the incident, we found that the incident happened in Uttar Pradesh […]

The video of a Muslim woman breaking the idols of Ganesha is not from India

August 20, 2020January 10, 2022Aavya Ray

A video is doing the rounds on social media in which a burqa-clad woman can be seen smashing Ganesha idols. This comes just ahead of the upcoming festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. Indian social media users have shared this video claiming that this video is from India, where a Muslim woman can be seen breaking Ganesha […]

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