Fact Check

AFP fact check: Doctored photo of Rihanna with Pakistani flag goes viral after singer tweets supporting farmers' protest

AFP reported that the original photo was published on the official Twitter account of ICC on 1 July, 2019, which shows Rihanna holding a flag with the official logo of the West Indies cricket team

Internet Archive will now let users know why that particular webpage was taken down

Now opening up dead webpages will carry a yellow banner at the top, explaining the reason they were taken down.

Google will start showing fact-checking labels on image search results globally

Google will display the “fact check” labels underneath thumbnails that appear in image search results.

Instagram starts flagging fake posts but wrongly marks digital art image as 'False information'

The concerned Instagram image is of a man standing on rainbow coloured mountains.

Centre sets up fact-checking unit to check fake news related to govt and its policies

In a bid to combat fake news, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) has set up a fact-checking unit to verify news related to the government's ministries, departments and schemes

International committee calls for pause on false political ads online

Zuckerberg has defended this policy, saying that the company does not want to stifle political speech.

Fact Check: Donald Trump casts fog of misinformation over Sino-American trade dispute, claims US 'lost $500 billion a year for many years' to China

Mueller noted some Trump campaign officials, including Trump Jr., had declined to testify while others had provided incomplete or false testimony, making it difficult to get a complete picture of what happened during the 2016 campaign.

Fact Check: Can NRIs vote online? No, all voters can only register online, clarifies Election Commission

NRIs can only register online to vote in Indian election. They will have to be physically present at their respective polling booths to cast their vote, the Election Commission has clarified

Fact Check: Flags of IUML waved at Congress Karnataka rally wrongly believed to be Pakistani flags

In one of the recent viral videos, a flag, green in colour and bearing the white crescent and star symbols is being waved at a Congress party rally in Tumkur, Karnataka. It is, however, the banner of a political party-based in Kerala, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).

Fact Check: Fake BBC survey claiming BJP's landslide victory going viral on social media, media firm confirms inauthenticity

As per the message which lists out the possible outcome in all the states and UTs, the worst-case scenario for BJP is 323 seats, and the best case scenario is 380 seats out of the 543 Lok Sabha seats up for a contest. The message says that the survey has been conducted by the CIA and the ISI, external intelligence agencies of the USA and Pakistan, respectively.